Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Monitor with right-of-way not spotted right away


Who gives way on footbridge, Yellow-spotted Monitor or unspotted bird watcher? Naturally, dinkum locals have right-of-way. I step aside, Spotty ambles forward, glances to the left and tumbles clumsily to ground about 30cm below. Dawdles off without a backward look. All in a morning's stroll through Cape Pallarenda Conservation Park in Townsville. 

Sunday, February 2, 2025

Peek-a-boo, yoo-hoo, toodle-oo, tally-hoo


Four days of nonstop rain in tropical North Queensland and cabin fever setting in. Calls for something light and bright to break the monsoon misery. So, harking to a sunnier, funnier day: Galah peek-a-boo


Magpie Goose goes yoo-hoo


Osprey passes, toodle-oo



Silver Gull says tally-hoo


 







  

Monitor with right-of-way not spotted right away

Who gives way on footbridge, Yellow-spotted Monitor or unspotted bird watcher? Naturally, dinkum locals have right-of-way. I step aside, Spo...