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.
Day 241 – Blue Wren Bench
It’s gone. The Blue Wren Bench is simply gone. There’s two big holes left in the ground where it was. I can’t believe it. The flood took the whole thing. I’ve looked downstream on the banks for quite a distance and I can’t see it anywhere. This side of the river has been so much […]
Day 240 – Private Bench
At Private Bench the duckling family is here and the ducklings have grown. I saw them today. There’s five of them left. They’re quite big now. They swam quickly across the river.
Day 239 – Big Old Tree Bench
It is a glorious day down at the Big Old Tree. It is sunny and beautiful. There’s birds everywhere. We just saw an Azure Kingfisher fly by really close. The flood has clearly been the whole way through here, and you can see a very defined line between where the water went up to. Everything […]
Day 238 – Northern Bench
And just like that the water drops and the whole Bench is back and the walking path is back. You wouldn’t know that it all happened except for the grass is flattened and muddy, and there’s debris stuck to the trees. This tree is by the path and the debris is at my shoulder height. […]
Day 237 – Northern Bench (less flooded)
The bench is coming back slowly. I do miss sitting on it.
Day 236 – Northern Bench (still flooded)
Northern Bench is just emerging out of the floodwaters. Across the other side, I can see the top of Other Side Bench as well. As the waters gone down a little bit, it’s starting to reveal all the debris that’s been washed down in the flood and gotten stuck on all the trees.