Five sweltering days followed by two days of lovely rain - nearly 3 inches in total, although much of it fell almost sideways yesterday in the wind gusts. Uploaded 50 insect pics here for identification, including this one: (I think it's a mozzie). Lone cuckoo has ceased calling - think the breeding season is over now. The kookaburras are around, though not especially in the manna gum. They're certainly not made to feel welcome - if they settle on the gum trees east of the house, wattle birds, both little and red, swoop in from all directions to harass them. Kookaburras aren't easily intimidated, but after a while they get tired of the barrage and leave.
One really lovely thing happened yesterday in the midst of the wind roar and driving rain - a fledgling magpie sheltered under an acacia shrub in front of the verandah and quietly practised its carolling. It did some beautiful rises and falls, melody - and occasionally sounded a wrong note, a duck quack noise, a cat meow, so delightful - put a smile on my face on an otherwise grey day.
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