Thoughts about birds

While sitting on the stone wall outside our house after my walk I saw a bird up in the big pine tree. She was chirping away, warbling even, and I felt that she was calling for someone, that she wanted company. It was quite intense and insistent, in fact that is why I said "she" about her/him/it. Suddenly, lo and behold, after a few minutes a bird of the same type flew up to her and started chirping to her. They sat there and "chirped" for a while and then the first bird flew off and left the second one alone and forlorn. I guess I don't understand the bird protocol.  If I had invited someone to come and see me, I wouldn't just go away like that. Oh, well, they'll have to sort it out.

Another thing that is cool about being a bird is that you never have to worry about finding a toilet. You just do it, and it seems to be number 1 and number 2 in one go. We have reason to notice this since one of our balconies is a bird assembly point. Every time we are having people over for barbecues we have to do a big bird-poop clean up.

Most people would probably say that the most obvious great thing about being a bird is the flying of course  but since I am a little afraid of heights I think if I was a bird I would be more into the singing.

Well, those are my thoughts on birds if anyone is interested. Oh, I just forgot to mention that we saw emus on our last trip. They are very big, very big. According to Wikipedia they can reach 2 m in height and run at 50 km an hour. I look on them as a two legged horse with feathers. I have a healthy respect of horses.

Now I am going to my painting class. I am still riding high on our visit to the Red Centre of Australia and the painting I am doing right now is from there.

I can't believe I only have two more classes after this and then we are going to Europe for the European summer. I will have to rename the blog to "going back" or something.

Back from painting and walking on the beach. It is supposed to be the Australian autumn but it is still around 26° or more in the day and people still surf and swim etc, it is quite nice. The downside is that they don't often have heating in their houses and at night it gets down to 12° or something so a lot of cuddling is necessary.