Ow ow ow. ITB says no

Unenthused.

Partly Cloudy, 11°C, Feels like 11°C, Humidity 56%, Wind 4m/s from S - by Klimat.app

2020/0806/1208 – "ajft, we've made it easy to get back on Instagram"

Over the six weeks from [2020-08-01 Sat] to [2020-09-12 Sat], what birds can I see while in “COVID-19, Stage 4 lockdown” at home. Restricted to one exercise outing per day, 5 ㎞ range, 1 hour maximum.

Stage 4 lockdown was extended, so I extended my isobirding…

…until [2020-10-18 Sun] which was our last day restricted to five kilometres.

Grand total; 46 species (as of 2026-05-31 Sun).

Amusingly, within days of the lockdown ending I saw a first for me, a couple of Royal Spoonbill in the Huntingdale wetlands.

2020/0805/1659 – "ajft, we've made it easy to get back on Instagram"

2020/0805/1637 – "ajft, we've made it easy to get back on Instagram"

Mostly Cloudy, 10°C, Feels like 10°C, Humidity 56%, Wind 5m/s from SW — by Klimat.app

May have to knock the tip off that triangle next time

Possible Light Rain, 10°C, Feels like 7°C, Humidity 51%, Wind 7m/s from WSW - by Klimat.app

Morning mug of tea in the garden, a strange noise, I look up. There's a duck perched on a chimney, calling loudly. #chimneyduck

A mentally exausting 75 minutes of "Divine Right", we're finished turn 8 of 20

Less than 5 ㎞ from home. Tick. Less than an hour. Tick.

Out for my daily ride; far far fewer people out and about today. Much the same percentage with no masks, err, “exercising” or wearing them “nose free” or as chin-bandages or carrying them around their neck as goodluck charms

Overcast, 14°C, Feels like 14°C, Humidity 56%, Wind 4m/s from WSW - by Klimat.app

Covid-19 "disaster curfew", traffic noise dwindles to nothing, unnaturally quiet as I got into bed

a warm day and the street tree starts blossoming, the hyacinth opens

A bit of the heights of Chadstone, then Scotchmans creek path, newish bike path down through Monash Uni to Clayton, connecting with Djerring trail and back home

I think the message is finally sinking in, almost all the shoppers in Oakleigh have masks… except for the smokers, the coffee drinkers and the sitting around talkers.

I wonder where the local butcherbird has gone[1]? Haven't heard them for a while. This week's birds are the Brown thornbills in the bay tree

Colouring in the backstreets, explore the new “Caulfield Village”, straight back along the traffic sewer. Found a lovely bit of bluestone, some aparments incorporating a rebuilt concrete laneway, and a lane that I knew of but never suspected went all the way through

Around 50% of the people in the park and bike path either have no mask or wear it as a chin sling, I’ll stick to riding on the local road.

Fark, that was close! Nearly taken out by 30 ㎞/h electric scooter on Scotchman ck trail… idiot had a big dog running with him … 3m to the side, head-on at me, on one of those invisible extender leads. Slid to a halt with front wheel wrapped in dog & lead

camellias are flowering, and the wattlebirds[1] keep landing on them for a feed

pulsing stabbing ITB twinges all weekend, something is all wrong with how I'm riding

2020/0725/2349 – "ajft, we've made it easy to get back on Instagram"

2020/0724/2151 – Hi ajft, We got a request to reset your Instagram password."

The joys of internet-of-things devices. Here on the desk is a Garmin Edge805. Right next to it is a phone with the Garmin Connect App. The Edge says I rode 11 ㎞, the phone can’t download the ride because the company’s website has been unavailable for the past six hours… down “for maintenance” apparently.

[2020-07-27 Mon] four days later and the Garmin site is back, rebuilt or recovered from their ransomware attack.