Posts by ChrisW
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A few hours before, the walnut tree is busy shedding its autumn leaves, two of them caught mid-fall against the river,
and one of them a scraggly compound leaf with legs and low-speed glide performance even poorer than the pukeko’s.
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Capture: Autumn lite, in reply to Jos,
So it's all go where you live then?
All go!? Truly hectic pace of life around here! Why just the other day - five days ago in fact - probably this same pukeko on the willow log, did that little bowing to the water thing, not narcissistically, nor to shit like shags do to lighten the load before takeoff, but about to use its legs and all body muscles to help fling itself in the air, flap like mad
and it was gone, past the miniature wind-wand, leaving the imprint of its wing-wind on the water behind it. At first I was a little disappointed I'd missed the photo of that spectacular takeoff I had to put in words here, but then I saw the bio-mimicry of that airborne pukeko again ...
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More BioMimicry, an hour earlier.
I haven't seen a pukeko wander out on the willow log when another bird is there too - this time an oddly patterned little shag is drying its wings.And a few seconds later, the pukeko adjusts its angle for the walnut foliage to consider its next move, while another non-bird flies by, drifting up on the tide.
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Another pied shag, Saturday morning on the riverbank. I call this one bio-mimicry - not all the bird-shapes are birds.
Incidentally showing I live in a natural gaslands - those bubbles and faint ripples from their abrupt arrival at the surface are from natural gas seeping from the rocks below.
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Capture: Autumn lite, in reply to Jos,
a blend of 4 photos
Aha - perhaps I shoulda suspected that form of magic, but no ...
Those ripples could well be mesmeric.Some corresponding colour from me.
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Red dawn yesterday morning, precursor to the few mm of frontal rain around lunchtime as the weather system headed offshore from Gisborne, to build strength as it swung in against the eastern South Islanders today ...
First the wide image, with late autumnal foliage of the walnut tree at right, updating the late summer one from the same spot.And the tall image, featuring Metasequoia glyptostroboides = 'dawn redwood' in the dawn, with its remnant seed-bearing foliage.
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Capture: Autumn lite, in reply to Jos,
Impressive, the (white-faced) herons' wingbeats more or less in synch but especially the ragged echo of their silhouettes in the dark cloud perfectly placed above them - magic!
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Capture: Autumn lite, in reply to JacksonP,
It sure put the wind up old Queen Vic.
Her heavy drapery more than a match for your wind - she looks unflappable. Though to say 'completely unmoved' would be an overstatement, I admit.
Sun and shadow on autumnal walnut leaves and leaflets.
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I'll see what I can do to raise the tone - ooh look, some Autumn Light.
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A day later, a columnar view from the doorstep – not much has changed.
