AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes

AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes
I love a sunburnt country / A land of sweeping plains / Of ragged mountain ranges / Of droughts and flooding rains / I love her far horizons / I love her jewel-sea / Her beauty and her terror / The wide brown land for me / ~ Dorothea Mackellar (1885-1968)

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Saturday, August 30, 2008

Wild Freedom


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Bird on the seashore at Sorrento, Mornington Peninsula
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Camera Critters prompt #21
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freedom in the wild
wild freedom
freedom's child
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P.S. This bird looks like some kind of heron. But in truth, I have no idea what it is called. It has an unusual grey, smokey-blue tone to its feathers just as the pic shows. But there seems to be an extra layer of stiff feathers standing up at the back over the smooth ones below. It looked quite weird. If anyone can tell me the name of this bird, I would appreciate it.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Interesting-looking bird. Very nice photo.

Paz

Maria Verivaki said...

just doing his business...

paisley said...

i have been wondering all day if i gave my kitty too much freedom,, so much freedom that he had to be put to death to keep it.. but as i look at this and read your words,, i know,, freedom was his birthright...

A Wild Thing said...

My new furniture styles are called 'the wild thing'...do you think appropriate...LOL %)

loving wildlife!
sharon

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