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Saturday, June 01, 2019

Thorny Frogmouth



Paul Kelly Music 

14th song included the only poem by aliving  Australian artist Robert Adamson:


This is a guest post by the poet Robert Adamson, who has previously provided his thoughts on death ... A recent event bought to mind a very upsetting episode I had with a pair of Tawny Frogmouths the ...



Paul Kelly Exclusive Full Text of All Poems Program: Paul Kelly in Thirteen Ways to Look at Birds 



Film director Alfred Hitchcock and bird perched on his cigar
World Happiness Report 2019 (PDF) John F. Helliwell, Richard Layard and Jeffrey D. Sachs







Via deep European blogger MS ... Paul Keating, former Australian Prime Minister, on classical music.


An old beer bottle in Monks Wood NNR, used as an anvil to smash open countless snails by countless Song Thrushes. The bottle may have been used by the birds for more than half a century, it's embossed 'Huntingdon Breweries Ltd', who ceased production in 1954.