Yesterday as I was strolling around the bush in the vicinity of my campsite in this forest in central Victoria I happen upon a feather which appears to have been recently discarded by a sulphur crested ****atoo; we've all seen feathers I have no doubt but yesterday as I picked this one off the ground I realised, for the first time in my life, what a magnificent thing it is!
I doubt the resolution of this phone photograph will be sufficient but the next time you find a feather *really* look at it, the detail, the perfection, the symmetry, the colour, the delicacy, the strength - how could I have missed such beauty for so many years? :)
When earnestly studied there are very few things in this great World that do not inspire the beholder to the glorious wonderment of nature and its creatures.
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Possum; AKA:- Ali El-Aziz Mohamed Gundawiathan
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This is unfortunately from a dead King Fisher which we found, the colours looked like they glowed in the light. The photo doesn't do a fraction of the justice of the feathers in real life.
Yesterday as I was strolling around the bush in the vicinity of my campsite in this forest in central Victoria I happen upon a feather which appears to have been recently discarded by a sulphur crested ****atoo; we've all seen feathers I have no doubt but yesterday as I picked this one off the ground I realised, for the first time in my life, what a magnificent thing it is!
I doubt the resolution of this phone photograph will be sufficient but the next time you find a feather *really* look at it, the detail, the perfection, the symmetry, the colour, the delicacy, the strength - how could I have missed such beauty for so many years? :)
