Day 173: ...to the Baza, huzzah!
A foggy start to the day today, but a beautiful blue sky one in the end. Inspired by the early fog pics by the usual twitter pic crew (Shelley Lloyd among them) out I went with the camera, enamoured by the raindrops from the rain overnight, though not much in the way of fog in these parts. Nonetheless, plenty to take so off went the shutter.
As I was photographing the frangipani leaves on this particular angle, I actually imagined them as the span of a bird's wings.
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| Raindrop not fog |
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| Frangipani raindrops |
Cue, a few minutes later when my lovely neighbour drew my attention to the latest visitor (announced by the noisy miners), a Pacific Baza. You'll often find us calling out to each other over the side fence when there is a sight to be seen...
At first glance, they look like a well-fed version of our ubiquitous crested pigeons, but they are quite different. Huge wing span (hence the coincidence of the frangipani pics) and feeling quite annoyed by the persistent miners, or perhaps that was the persistent human with the large black 'beak', it spent some time flying around the tops of the gum trees in the neighbourhood.
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| Inquisitive Baza |
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| Away... |
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| Such span |
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| So flight, wow. |
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| Pfft... |
We don't see them all that often but it is a wonder when we do. I really do feel the privilege of the beauty in our suburbs everyday.
[Camera : Canon EOS 60D, 18-55mm, 75-300mm, 8.25am, 8.33am, 8.54-8.58am including cropping]
