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Three of the same (#1 in a single-image series: kangaroos)

Published April 22, 2023 by Pelidoug

Three of the same (#1 in a single-image series: kangaroos)

 

 

Recently, in a “to cull, to tweak, or to let it be?” mission, I waded through nearly 10,000 images.

I suddenly realised that most of my “single species” wildlife photos involve either a single animal, a pair, or a group/flock/herd of more than four individuals.

Three, I think, is the rarest single-species group size…or number of individuals a photographer can “isolate”, successfully.

This little celebration of “companies of three” will range over three continents and at least one island….

It begins in one of my favourite parts of the island continent.

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A tiny slice of a wren’s life

Published February 4, 2023 by Pelidoug

A tiny slice of a wren’s life

 

If the relevant timepiece registered only minutes and hours, it would have said “9. 23 am” through all of this post’s eight images, which are presented in chronological order.

As it happens, my camera also records seconds, so I know that only 39 of them elapsed from first to eighth photo.

From image “1” through “7” only 21 seconds passed.

A recently-bathed Superb Fairy Wren – Malurus cyaneus – can adopt a great many different positions within such a “short” time!

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Coorong National Park (northern part, Autumn 2022)

Published May 25, 2022 by Pelidoug

Coorong National Park (northern part, Autumn 2022)

The featured image and the one below were both taken from a boat on the Coorong-proper – Australia’s longest lagoon.

Both photos look across its waters to the Younghusband Peninsula – the dune field that separates the Coorong from the Southern Ocean.

Sand and water are the Coorong National Park’s key components.

The former arrives via wind, and Southern Ocean waves.

Most of the “fresh”-ish supply of the latter is delivered by the Murray-Darling river system.

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Murray River meets Southern Ocean: little big mouth

Published May 22, 2022 by Pelidoug

Murray River meets Southern Ocean: little big mouth

 

The featured image’s Southern Ocean waves are breaking on the Younghusband Peninsula’s narrowest, northernmost section.

The peninsula’s tip is the southern “lip” of the mouth of Australia’s biggest river system;  the cormorants are on the “freshwater side”, as was yours truly at 3.35 pm on 30 March 2022.

If you have never been to this spot, you may be thinking, “it looks splendidly wild, barely touched by humans”.

Alas, you would be very wrong….

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Fur seals: bad news for The Coorong?

Published May 18, 2022 by Pelidoug

Fur seals: bad news for The Coorong?

 

Over the last 15 years seals have become an increasingly common/obvious presence in the Coorong-proper and on/around the Goolwa Barrage.

This has delighted some people, but infuriated/worried some others.

Some of the infuriated/worried people perceive the seals as “intruders”, as “fish thieves”, as “out of control”, “a threat to fish and bird populations”.

So, who are these seals, are they “newcomers”, and are they a threat to “the natural balance”?

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Flight, Coorong National Park: gulls (with musical bonus)

Published May 10, 2022 by Pelidoug

Flight, Coorong National Park: gulls (with musical bonus)

 

When an Australian thinks of seagulls, the relevant species is almost certainly our most common, emblematic one.

Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae – the Silver gull – has prospered mightily, post-1788.

Arguably, this highly-adaptable bird should no longer be described as a “seagull”.

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Flight, Coorong National Park: Pelicans

Published May 8, 2022 by Pelidoug

Flight, Coorong National Park: Pelicans

 

One of the pleasures of Australian life is to look up and see pelicans “surfing the thermals”, soaring, spiralling ever-higher, with so very little apparent effort.

They are also wonderful to watch as they take off from water (or land on it); then, however, a great amount of effort is spectacularly evident.

Pelicans are one of “our” world’s largest, living, flying “machines”.

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“Accidentally Christmassy” (#2 of 3)

Published December 21, 2020 by Pelidoug

“Accidentally Christmassy” (#2 of 3)

In a “normal” year this 21.12.2020 post would be coming to you from right next door to South Australia’s Aldinga Scrub Conservation Park, where I took the photo on 21 December 2017.

Conifers mostly hail from the other hemisphere, but none of their “Christmassy” cones are lovelier than this Australian species’ “cones”.

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