thingswithwings.life
Introduction
This website is dedicated to creatures of flight that tease all of us with earthbound bodies.
Ever since Icarus, so many of us have dreamt of flight. That fascination has prompted many hours of watching birds and bees and other winged beings fly, just out of reach or soaring high and trying to capture them in photos.
Having had the wonderful opportunity to travel around Australia with work commitments, I’ve had so many trips to far away places where I’ve had the chance to photograph so many of Australia’s flying critters. Trying to keep the camera battery charged and the camera always at the ready….even at the airport when the little red-backed fairy wrens are playing in the grass while we are waiting for our lift to arrive.
Even so there have been many missed opportunities too. How to capture the bird with a fish in beak flying over the bridge I’m driving over to get to work? Hmm, a problem for another day.
Birds
Pigeons
I decided to start this website with the pigeons. Why? They’re ubiquitous and I thought they were boring. I studied Torresian Imperial pigeons on a scientific expedition at the Low Isles in Far North Queensland as a teenager. Endless counts of flocks of birds returning to their nests in the Low Isles in the evening after a days feasting on the mainland to get an idea of their numbers. They’re white with black wing tips and sleek and elegant. Other than this, the other pigeons I’d come across seemed quite uninteresting.