Birdperving in the heat

On Saturday morning most of us were ready to go at the relatively keen hour of 8:00 am.
First up on the list of places was windsor downs, where looking at the oversized houses provided significantly better entertainment than looking at the birds. Mostly because there were no birds to see, it was also starting to get rather hot.
Next we went to Bushell's lagoon and didn't see the grey plover or wandering whistling ducks. But did see a nice cuckoo and plenty of mud. Sadly there were no snakes about, but maybe it was the wrong time of the day.
After that it was off to pitt town lagoon for another failure and more wandering through long grass hoping not to get bitten by a snake.
Lastly we popped in to scheyville NP where we mostly saw a lot of country folk (euphemism for bogans) disobeying the park rules.

Christmas in NZ

Adelle and I spent Christmas and new years in NZ over the holidays and it was lovely with nice mild temperatures and very little time spent in the city.


Christmas at Nana's.


Raglan's new years parade. It was substantially better than standing amongst the sleazy sweaty throngs of subhumans in Sydney in an attempt to catch a glimpse of the spectacular waste of money that is the fireworks on the harbour bridge.

As usual there was plenty of things happening on the farm to keep one busy.




We were also kept busy horse riding, birdwatching, go karting, site seeing and fishing.











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