Long before Europeans reached Australia, what is now “Perth’s Pelican Point” was already a place of considerable significance to both humans and birds.
Given its inner urban location – as a bird flies, a couple of minutes or less from the CBD of a metropolis – it is no small achievement that the bipeds who effectively “own” Pelican Point’s actual point are avian, not human.
In the featured image: white-headed stilts, black swans, and a little pied cormorant.
My beloved and I have visited Pelican Point’s point many times; the walk to it is far from arduous.
18 April 2023 was a beautiful day, but its early and mid afternoon offered far from ideal conditions for bird photography: the light was “flat” and overly-bright, with the sun still high in a cloudless sky.
Also, by Pelican Point standards, the day was “pretty ordinary” in terms of the number of birds present and their species diversity.
By “normal” urban standards, worldwide, everything was uncommonly wonderful: the quality of the air, the weather, the presence of a whole lot of different birds in a relatively “wild” setting, so close to a city’s centre…
Click here for an old but informative article about this very special place.
