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© 1984 - 2024 Adrian Tritschler
© 1984 - 2024 Adrian Tritschler
Maleny birds [2023-07-11 Tue]
Day walk around Maleny, and visit to a rainforest park, some lifers: Yellow-throated scrubwren Green catbird – heard Eastern whipbird – heard Laughing kookaburra Letter-winged kite Straw-necked ibis Magpie Pied currawong Rainbow lorikeet Logrunner Blue-faced honeyeater Thornbill (sp.) Cattle egret Australian ravenDay of the grey butcherbird[1]
Breakfast this morning and we could here them calling constantly, at least a pair, possibly more. Back and forth between different outposts a few trees one side or the other of the house. Then leaving work this afternoon what did I hear? Another pair in the gum trees around the university calling back and forth to each other [1] Grey butcherbirdlunchtime garden visitor – a Grey butcherbird[1] on the back deck
We often hear them calling in the trees around the park but don’t see them much, a bit of a surprise when I walked into the kitchen at lunchtime to see one suddenly fly up off the back deck. I think it was collecting spiders or insects from all the webs when I started it, then flew up into the plum tree and watched me for a minute or so then flew off across the neighbour’s garden when I went outside for a better lookOver the six weeks from
to , what birds can I see while in “COVID-19, Stage 4 lockdown” at home. Restricted to one exercise outing per day, 5km range, 1 hour maximum.Stage 4 lockdown was extended, so I extended my isobirding…
…until
which was our last day restricted to five kilometres.Grand total; 46 species (as of 2020-10-28 Wed).
Amusingly, within days of the lockdown ending I saw a first for me, a couple of Royal Spoonbill in the Huntingdale wetlands.
There’s not much more I can add to who I am.
Vanity site? Technology experiment? Learning tool? Blog? Journal? Diary? Photo album? I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you…
I experiment. I play. I write and I take pictures. Some of the site is organised around topics, other parts are organized by date, then there’s always the cross-references between them.
Its all been here a fairly long time. Like the papers on my desk, or the books on the bedside table, the pile just grew… and it all grew without much plan or structure. I try not to break URLs, so historical oddities abound.
Long ago it started as a learning experiment with a few static HTML pages, then I added a bit of server-side includes and some very ugly PHP. A hand-built journal/blog on top of that PHP, then a few experiments in moving to various static publishing systems. I’ve never wanted a database-based blogging engine, so over the years I’ve tried PHP, nanoblogger, emacs-muse, silkpage and docbook before settling on Emacs Org mode for writing and jekyll for publishing. But the itch remained… I never really liked jekyll and the ruby underneath always seemed so much black magic. So now the latest incarnation is Org mode and hugo.