AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes

AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes
I love a sunburnt country / A land of sweeping plains / Of ragged mountain ranges / Of droughts and flooding rains / I love her far horizons / I love her jewel-sea / Her beauty and her terror / The wide brown land for me / ~ Dorothea Mackellar (1885-1968)

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Thursday, May 21, 2009

Crow Variations


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Until I took this photo of two crows on my verandah, I did not realise that they could have quite different eyes.
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Nature Notes #10
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Black superstition
Feathered omens of darkness
Shades of deep shadows

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6 comments:

paisley said...

me either... but then i don't know that i have ever seen a blue eyed crow before....

Terri said...

Wow, a blue eyed crow - that's astonishing! Great photo. And I love the haiku.

Carver said...

That is interesting how their eyes are so different.

MyMaracas said...

I've never seen a blue-eyed crow either. Great find!

CJ said...

Great photo & haiku. I've got to get a better telephoto lens on my camera so i can create great photos, like yours, of the birds that visit my yard.

RJ Flamingo said...

Nice shot, Gemma! I'd love to know what those are, technically - I've never seen any bird with blue eyes (except maybe the blue jay).

Neat post!

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