Ever since the leaves came back on the oak tree, I have been looking for the owl/s. A Powerful Owl was roosting yesterday, clutching a half-grown possum. I hadn’t seen it when we walked up the road but, on the way back, Vika spotted the possum’s stomach pouch on the ground underneath.

I was thrilled that the oak will be a regular daytime roost again this year. From the amount of scat on the ground underneath, this morning, I think both owls may have been there and I hadn’t seen it due to the thickness of the foliage. No owls this morning, though.

I didn’t have time to go back and take photos yesterday, nor could I as I think I have locked the aperture setting on my camera or it is set to flash every time and the flash will not come up – not sure. I haven’t had time to go through the manual and undo whatever I did to it. I was playing with a button and turning a dial. I doesn’t seem to be the SD card.

These are old owl photos, from Autumn, with the Nikon D3000 SLR

owl sizing up my dog

powerful owl in oak tree

New photos soon!

Thanks for looking and I am really sorry for slacking off on the blogging. 🙂

Birds

The Owl is Back

Birds, Taniel

Fairy-wren

The fairy-wren hasn’t posed outside my window again, so I’ve had to settle for these distant shots from the Nikon D3000 SLR, on auto.

Four of the female fairy-wrens have vanished. I expect that they have been enticed away by another male. I miss them all flitting about my yard.

If I whistle at the blue fairy-wren, the feathers on top of his head stand erect and he gives a bit of a warble of his own. I took this picture through the kitchen window. Just seeing me was enough to get him declaring his dominance.

Thanks for looking.

I’m still busy with this book. I was stressing myself over the formatting for Amazon and I’ve had to rein myself in and get more sleep so that the brain will work better. When I exported from Scrivener into Word, I ended up with two different fonts and spacings – don’t ask me how I managed that. Then, in attempt to create a .mobi, I managed to do something which froze things and now I think I’ve corrupted my Scrivener project file.

I copied all 96 scenes, one by one, from Wattpad into yWriter5. I have missed the clean lines and organisation of yWriter and it was so good to be back with it that I’ve rewritten two more scenes, since, for Wattpad. I still haven’t formatted the dashed eBook for setting up that pre-order and it doesn’t even matter what it looks like inside as no-one sees it until it is released.I am my own worst enemy sometimes. Thanks for listening to me moan.

I’ve decided to draft book two during NaNoWriMo. This next one is not taking 5 years. I’m having it done in six months, or less. It’s only 85,000 words or so. Wish me luck!

🙂

Nokia Lumia 520 windows phone: scenery image taken from behind our place

Nikon D3000 DSLR: bird, and bee images

Wattlebird, euclytptus blossom

I think this is one of the best images I’ve got of a wattlebird, so far. The tree is always in heavy shadow and the birds just a little too high up. Another lens would be useful.

New Holland honeyeater – nearly!

New Holland Honeyeater: I am looking forward to the day when I have perfected the art of capturing this bird flying with a bit of clarity. Today, this bird flew only a foot above my head, chasing a wattlebird out of the ivy. Too late to raise the camera, they were gone. It has a surprising amount of yellow in its wings.

coming right to me

After days of non-stop rain, these galahs were soaked and miserable-looking. That is an unused three-roomed bungalow behind them. Each year I think is the year we will freshen it up but of course, we don’t. Perhaps this summer. It needs painting and renovation – much like our house, which is why I have never put up an image up of it, ever. 🙂