Tag: coast

What’s black and white (and black all over)

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Bird of the Week: LXIX

Recently I posted a photo of an Oystercatcher and people seem to like them. This week I’ll actually do both Oystercatchers that are on the coast here, the Sooty and the Pied Oystercatchers. They are found all around the coastline of Australia

They both enjoy a stroll on the beach. “All oystercatchers have a bright orange-red bill, eye-rings and legs and a red eye.”

The Sooty Oystercatcher is the only all-black shorebird in Australia

“The Pied Oystercatcher prefers mudflats, sandbanks and sandy ocean beaches and is less common along rocky or shingle coastlines.”

“The Sooty Oystercatcher is strictly coastal, usually within 50 m of the ocean. It prefers rocky shores, but will be seen on coral reefs or sandy beaches near mudflats.”

“Oystercatchers feed on bivalve molluscs, which are prised apart with their specially adapted bills. Food is found by sight, or by probing their long, chisel-shaped bills in the mud.”

Oystercatchers are mainly silent.
The first is a Sooty Oystercatcher REF: https://dibird.com/species/sooty-oystercatcher/

This is a Pied Oystercatcher REF: https://xeno-canto.org/species/Haematopus-longirostris

Or somedays, it’s nice just hang out with friends.

REF: https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/pied-oystercatcher/
https://www.birdsinbackyards.net/species/Haematopus-fuliginosus

Down by the sea

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CMMC – October: Pick a Topic from my Photo

Cee’s image is of water behind sandhills with the sea in the distance and vegetation in the foreground. Off we go to see what I have………I decided to go with just the coastal theme.
To you that may seems like a nanosecond.
To me, almost an hour as I went down a coastal/seascape/beach/sand wormhole of moving photos, adding some sub-folders and labeling photos. Time well spent, but didn’t find what I thought I have.

Probably my best attempt. Algae counts as vegetation doesn’t it?

This one has a bit of foreground vegetation at least

Some water behind the “dune made of rocks” dune

“Hey, you didn’t tell them about the bird on the sand!”

A wild story

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Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge: Wild
Lens-Artists Challenge #255: Telling a Story

For the Lens-Artists Patti would like to “This week, we invite you to tell a story in 1 to 5 photos. The story you tell is totally up to you.”

So in my usual way, here is a story but it’s not just my story, it is what you read. I’ll let the photos with the theme of wild, for Sue and GC, tell you my story. Go back to the sunrise and start your own story.

Every picture tells a story

Wishes

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Sunday Still: I’d #Rather Be…..

I’d rather be….
in the shade of a tree


I’d rather be….
beside the sea

I’d rather be….
drinking tea


I’d rather be….
having a corroboree


I’d rather be….
watching a bee


I’d rather be….
having a coffee

I’d rather be….
sitting in a gum tree


I’d rather be….
making whoopee

Want to be with me?

Pick a Word – January 2023

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Thursday Special: Pick a Word January 2023

Time to have a go at my favourite photo challenge. This months words are a mix of easy (maybe) and a bit more to think about. Well the words gave me a lot of ideas. I put a photo in and then want to change my mind. To over come this, I have double dipped with a couple of photos that the words compelled me to post.

To compensate for taking a bit of your time, here are some of my favourite words as you scroll on by

Paula’s first set of words for this year are

CIRCULAR

IDIOSYNCRATIC

PERSPECTIVE

SEABOARD

UNDRAPED

I hope you had fun and found that that my photos matched Paula’s words. Want to know more about any of the photos, drop me a comment.
Did you see the duck on the fountain?