At 6.20 pm on the last day of March 2024 we were standing beside the western shore of Lake Monger.
The setting sun had just “disappeared”, now hidden by the low slope behind us.
However, in the sky above us, the last of that day’s direct sunbeams were able to reach the underside of the pictured ibis.
It was just beginning its descent.
A few seconds later it joined a rapidly-growing number of roosting “bin chickens”, settling in for the night.
As is true of every image in this little series, my photo is decidedly imperfect.
Too little and rapidly-diminishing light “conspired” with the remarkably sudden arrival of incoming ibis, immediately followed by their astonishingly swift descent and landing.
If I had more skill in speedy and precise “tracking”, I would have taken some better pictures, but they still would have been imperfect.
In real life, via naked eyes, the coming-in-to-roost of the ibis was a glorious sight.
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