Paradise Shelduck, female, swimming, with its distinctive white color head, and male, in the background observing, with its almost black color head.
Part of a roost of 200ish in Bayswater marina yacht club building & adjacent phoenix palms/ramp tiers. Doubling per 4 years.
Male of a pair preparing to gather atop a nearby norfolk isl pine in northcote centre to depart for akoranga dr roost.
3 domestic chickens alternating in an educated queue to lay their eggs in de same spot: a cozy corner below my bedroom window outside in the garden. Close by there is a chickens house however the chickens prefer that spot under some vegetation shade. Still morning and this spot is the favorite of these chickens to lay the daily egg. While the first to arrive stay in the nest laying its egg the other two chickens patiently wait in the queue softly murmuring to each other while walking slowly around the nest. With a specific murmur the first announces that it’s egg just delivered and carefully stand up and slowly walk out of the nest, giving a way to the next chicken in the queue that calmly get inside the nest, carefully inspect it and give a quiet murmur to the egg already there, sit down making itself comfortable and take its time performing the egg delivery, and so on until all three chickens finish their “jobs”.
Interesting how they are respectful to each other, no pressing nor rushing, each one waiting its time in an order manner.
In the afternoon Cherry, the Chinese landlady, collects the eggs under the attention of the chickens whose do not react, only keeping one eye on Cherry…