Those White-plumed Unexpected Moments…

Author Koh Lin ◦

Sometimes in your everyday life, Mother Nature throws an unexpected moment your way…

There I was, working busily in the garden at my work place in Alice Springs… I was looking in the cabinet drawer for a garden tool, when suddenly a movement on the small folded step-ladder next to the drawer unit caught my attention.

A short intake of air… and my hands immediately went to my pocket for my mobile phone… snap, snap!! There it was, resting on one of the rungs of the ladder, a juvenile White-plumed Honeyeater.

My heart skipped a beat, as I very slowly moved around the ladder to get a better view with my mobile… snap, snap, snap, snap…

Suddenly, I froze… the juvenile had now jumped onto my finger… I was amazed that I could take photos on my mobile with one hand…

All this time, the parent birds were flying around above us… watching…

I then slowly raised my hand up to the paperbark tree and gently coaxed the juvenile onto the branch of the tree… a few more photos and I felt elated. Mother Nature had done me a treat.

Now walking into the web of that Golden Orb Weaver Spider is another story!