Pond life
I noted in my intial post of this series that the pond over which the bungalow is built had been cleaned out. The reeds and water plants and other flora that had begun to clog the pond during our first visit had been removed. The associated fauna we discovered in that environment was thus not so present, varied and visible this visit. However, it was just "different".
The photos in this post were selected to provide a view of that "different". The focus is much more on what uses the top and edges of the pond.
Nature provides some truely special compositions for us to savour. This first picture offers so much ... I have little doubt you will be able to notice even more than I share.
The sky is grey as seen in the pond surface upon which the feather floats; the delicacy of the grey barbs either side of the rachis merge with the even more delicate and fluffy white afterfeather protecting the upward pointing calamus. Thank you wikipedia for the technical terminology! Then there is the mirror surface enabling a very precise reflection showing the underside of the afterfeathers and calamus. Even more special is the presence and magnifiaction offered by the droplets on the feather - the single relatively large one with atleast four smaller ones to the top left seemingly in vertical alignment, & several more very small ones on close inspection. "Light as a feather" just does not seem nearly adequate. Like many birds ... "grey" ... but the many shades are really something special.
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| Lewin's honeyeater watching and waiting |
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| Dusky moorhen dribble |
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| Cruising into shallows |
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| His majesty peeking around the corner. |
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| Overseeing his subjects |
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| Geese getting settled |
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| Preening, resting and flapping |
And to finish this theme, skip to next morning to the early morning sun rising across the hills and the vineyard behind the bungalow ... yes, quite the location ... the attraction is clear (notwithstanding the septic tank in the foreground!!)!
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