Soggy Wildlife
Posted 18 November 2008 in Random Photographs by Catriona
After being completely invisible during the rain of the last few days, the bigger water dragon appeared first thing this morning to try and absorb as much heat as possible from the soaking-wet barbeque:
He couldn’t have flattened himself out any further, however hard he tried.
He was also either unusually pleased with himself or absolutely desperate for warmth, because he let me get closer than he usually does:
He’s a lovely boy, despite that vague look of contempt in his eyes.
To counterbalance that, here’s a photograph of the world’s most lugubrious noisy mynahs (if anyone reading this doesn’t have a garden full of these birds, that name is not a misnomer. Damn birds won’t shut up at the moment.)
They’re huddling together in yesterday’s rain. It would be hilarious if they didn’t look so miserable:
Well, no—it’s actually pretty hilarious, anyway.
Share your thoughts [4]
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John wrote at Nov 19, 02:43 am
I loathe Mickeys. Serves them right for existing!
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Catriona wrote at Nov 19, 03:31 am
Why? They’re fairly harmless, aren’t they? (Don’t dig up the gardens like turkeys and blackbirds.) And they’re native birds, yes?
They’re bloody noisy, though.
I just love their miserable expressions here.
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Drew wrote at Nov 19, 08:28 am
I was going to say that they are not a native species but I thought that I should just make absolutely certain before I did so. It seems that they are native (and what’s more, native to this area) although many people have told me otherwise. I wonder how that belief came about?
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Catriona wrote at Nov 19, 08:33 am
I know the other major mynah in Australia, the Indian mynah, is not native, though I don’t see many of those in Brisbane.
I’ve always been told that noisy mynahs are native, though they behave more like an introduced species, noisy, quarrelling, rambunctious little things that they are.