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, September 13, 2008

Wild Cycles of Seeds


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Cockatoo feasting on seeds in a Dromana street, Mornington Peninsula
NOTES: A few visitors have wondered if this bird is really in the wild! YES IT IS! Where I live, cockatoos are quite a common, daily sight flying around tree-lined streets and flying over my mountain. Some people have bird feeders for them near their driveways. But not everyone likes cockatoos! They look handsome, but their screech is ear-piercing! Some people refer to a flock of cockatoos as "the screech squad"!
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Photo Hunt prompt ~ Wild +
One Single Impression prompt #29 ~ Seeds
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For some who love dreams
Seeds in the wild mean blossoms ~
Metamorphosis
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But seeds to wildlife
Free gift of Nature's bounty
Nourishing harvest
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Wild cycles of seeds
Life and death are perceptions
Old rite of passage
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46 comments:

Gill - That British Woman said...

I didn't realise that the birds just flew around wild..........lovely photo

Gill in Canada

Anonymous said...

Ahhh - now that's a lovely 'wild' photo. :)

Have a great weekend. :)

Anonymous said...

A wild 'Kiki-bird' - fascinating !
Yes, I grew up with Enid Blyton's 'Aventure' books.

Bengbeng said...

wow. i love the bird. i have never seen a kiki bird

Anonymous said...

Oooh, great photo for wild. Happy photo hunting.

Anonymous said...

Lovely picture, thanks for stopping by my blog this morning :)

Anonymous said...

That really does look wild to me, speaking from Europe!

Thanks for visiting mine :)

Pok Dell said...

Nice shot on Cockatoo...can it finish it all :)

HeatherK said...

Nice picture for wild. have a good weekend

RJ Flamingo said...

Reminds me of the flocks of cockatoos that hung out in the park in Sydney when we were there about 20 years ago. Nice shot!

Thanks for stopping by!

LadyNoor said...

Lovely words to go with the 'wild' photo... Good one :)

Write From Karen said...

What a pretty bird!

Write From Karen

Carver said...

That's a wonderful shot of the birds feasting on the wild seeds. Happy weekend.

Rebecca (Ramblings by Reba) said...

I really like how you composed that shot. Yay!

Anonymous said...

Great shot and haikus too!

Anonymous said...

Beautiful wild bird!!! Happy photo hunting :)

Enigma said...

Wonderful photo and wonderful haiku. Your creativity is through the roof. Thank you so much for sharing!

Gretchen said...

Great take on the theme of wild! :)

Staci A said...

Great photo! One of my 4-year-old's favorite animals is the cockatoo, he would be in awe.
Thanks for stopping by my photo!

Tracey@Aloha Monkeys said...

Great shot. WOW! Is it Sunday there already?

Unknown said...

very cool theme! what a beautiful bird!

Baker Watson said...

Cool photo. It's amazing to think of how different the wildlife is for different parts of the world. That bird would be 'exotic' here, but of course some birds we have would likely be strange and exotic to your locale.

Good choice for the theme.

Baker

Liss said...

That's a great photo. Beautiful bird.

Anonymous said...

How cool that cockatoo's fly about in your part of the world. Now that's a wild concept to me :0)

storyteller said...

Ah … this is lovely the way you’ve blended OSI and Photo Hunt with your haiku … beautifully creative ‘take’ on both themes. I enjoy multi-tasking too ;--)
Hugs and blessings,

Dragonstar said...

Beautiful, delicate photo. I love it.

namesconnie said...

Love this photo of the bird so free. Very nice and I like the poem, too. Sincerely, Connie

YTSL said...

This was taken in the wild? VERY cool if so! :)

tommie said...

Gorgeous bird!

Thanks for visiting my hunt. Happy weekend!

Lenore said...

lovely poem, and photo.

SandyCarlson said...

Life and death really are perceptions. This is a lovely piece. The enigmatic photo reinforce the real-or-illusion question very nicely.

Anonymous said...

Ahhh.. something that isn't cats for this time around.

Well, good to know about the parrot... :P

me ann my camera said...

I would never have thought of applying the word metamorphosis to seeds; but you are so right. Your words and images are wonderful. A creative 'wild' response.

ann at Gaullimaufry Gleanings

Anonymous said...

Great shot! It is hard to believe that fall is coming around the bend here and you are getting reayd to enjoy spring down there.

Anonymous said...

A great response to seeds!

Anonymous said...

I really enjoyed your perspective on the ways of looking at seeds. And the bird is very cool - reminds me of the time I went to Florida and saw dozens of feral budgies lining the telephone wires. They seemed out of place somehow (but very amusing!. there are several place in the US that have established populations of escaped pet birds.

stan said...

that's a cool shot of a parrot feeding.

Raven said...

What an excellent pairing of two prompts. Cool shot of the cockatoo (that's what they are called here in the US, I think). Love the "scream squad." Rather like the crows he have meetings in the tree in my front yard. They have very heated discussions. I sometimes wonder what they are talking about. Politics, maybe.

barbs.haiku said...

What a great melding of two prompts, Gemma! I love the haiku, especially 'Life and death are perceptions'!

Anonymous said...

The haiku are wonderful. I particularly liked the line, "life and death are perceptions". This is so true of seeds-- what seems dead contains new life.

EG CameraGirl said...

the hazy photo reinforces the blur between life and death. Very nice.

Anonymous said...

I love this. Wonderful look at wild. Thanks for stopping by mine and have a great week!

Annie Jeffries said...

This is the third post I've run across referencing seeds and life and not limiting seed to vegetation. I love this broad and encompassing definition of seed and you present it here so well.

Anonymous said...

Imagine seeing and hearing them every day.
I agree with Annie about your work. Very nice.

Anonymous said...

Gorgeous! I love that he's out in the wild.

Thanks for visiting my photo hunt!

Tumblewords: said...

Fascinating photo, excellent words for bird in the wild!

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