The frogs are still in the field across the street. It’s rained pretty much all week. My garden is full of flowers. My favourite rose bush is getting its first rose buds for the season.
Month: October 2022
Day 250 – Northern Bench
The water is around the legs of Northern Bench. In the photo you can see the big tree next to the Bench is also underwater. I startled a Blackbird and he flew away. There’s also a white-faced heron out on a log in the middle of the river. He’s using it as a raft to […]
Day 249 – Back Deck Bench
A little group of blue wrens have moved into our backyard. I don’t know if you can hear them in the recording, but they’re here right now. There’s one male and three females, and we keep saying the same birds every day now. They really are the sweetest little birds. You can see them ‘talking’ […]
Day 248 – Tennis Court Bench
I went for a surf this morning for the first time in a while this morning. I was a bit nervous that I wouldn’t be able to surf any more. I got two good waves. There’s this teenage magpie that hangs around the tennis courts. We heard him squawking away asking for food the whole […]
Day 247 – Switchback Bench
The water is over the foot bridge again. It’s almost the perfect height for a ninja challenge. My son really wants the ninja challenge, so we are going to sit here for a while and see if the water goes down.
Day 246 – Northern Bench
The birds around the Bench are singing so sweetly today. In the recording all you would hear is the wind in the trees and about five different types of birds singing. It’s interesting, the cuckoo-shrike I saw up at Switchback Bench the other day is here. It’s the first time I’ve seen here.
Day 245 – Private Bench
As I was sitting here, I saw this Red Wattlebird just dive down to dip into the water. He came back three or four times. I was surprised to see him taking a bath in such deep water. In the photo, he’s just come out and he’s flying back to the tree. There’s also a […]
Day 244 – Front Deck Bench
I came out to the front deck today just because I wanted to listen to the frogs. They have set up camp in the field across the road from my house. All the recent rain has made a puddle there.t They’re really quite loud. I can hear them from my bedroom at night. The garden […]
Day 243 – Blue Wren Bench
It’s an overcast, rainy day. It’s very humid. The cascades were gushing. I’ve come back to where the Bench used to be. Where there’s now just two holes in the ground. I saw a new bird. I think it was a black faced cuckoo-shrike. I’m going to have to go home and look it up. […]
Day 242 – Lily Pond Bench
I haven’t been to the lily pond for a long time. There’s lots of frogs after all the rain. There’s also three little calves in the field behind. I remember thinking some of the cows looked very pregnant, and now they’ve had their babies.