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Somewhere near work we seem to have the world's loudest butcherbird[1], I can't believe the volume that it calls at!
[1] Grey butcherbird
birds on the commute
Damp and grey, the first rainy morning I can remember for months. Riding in the last few streets to work there were currawongs[1] calling, somewhere, evoking winter. Then a butcherbird[2] loudly telling the world it was raining [1] Pied currawong [2] Grey butcherbird
Superb parrots[1]
Signs along Hillview drive near Murrumbatemen warning of Superb parrots feeding on the roadside, I kept my eyes peeled but didn’t see any trace of them. So far the only ones I’ve ever seen were flying over Colin’s old place on Yass river road. [1] Superb parrot
released a blackbird[1] that had got in under the netting on the tomatoes
[1] Common blackbird
lorikeets[1] have found the plum tree, much shrieking and destruction of fruit
[1] Rainbow lorikeet
cool, grey and damp on the ride to work, a pair of currawongs[1] flew lazily overhead, calling with their distinctive voices
[1] Pied currawong
a visitor to the garden, a Pied butcherbird[1] flew in and sat on the fence, poking around under the bay tree
[2022-08-18 Thu] – I suspect I was mistaken and that it was a Grey butcherbird[2], but I’d not seen them up close here before [1] Pied butcherbird [2] Grey butcherbird
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Must be a day for the birds — running a bit late this morning due to sleeping in, I made myself even later by stopping for a couple of minutes to take some photos of a Nankeen Night-heron in the creek. The pictures didn’t come out very well, they were at the extreme end of the digital zoom, but it was unusual enough to see one out in daylight. Normally that rock is frequented by a White-faced heron. I really need an SLR and a good lense for wildlife pictures, but there’s no way I’d carry it around with me!
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.