Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Birdwatching at work

Went to a meeting in Perth today. The office is in an industrial estate, and has some resident oystercatchers breeding in the surrounding landscaped area. We got distracted at one point in the meeting by one of them rattling on the window (does it look like water?). During our buffet lunch, we got a perfect view of a couple of them foraging for whatever squirmy bugs it is they eat and shoving them into the beak of their chick, a grubby ball of feathers on stilts.

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