Storms and bats

On the evening of the 22nd - the frabjous day of settling on our property at Carwoola - it looked as though a storm was heading from the West towards Canberra.
 Looking to the East - the range of hills are on Taliesin, behind our former home - and things appeared quite clear.  (As an incidental for those readers not from Canberra the tall column is the Australian-American War Memorial.  It is capped by a rampant Bald Eagle, but from a front on view it looks more like a Wascally Wabbit, and is thus known widely as the Bugs Bunny War Memorial.)
Looking to the North the leading cumulus look a bit like the advance guard of a fleet of Vogon spaceships.  Fortunately no-one appeared to read poetry to us.
Although there were quite a few flashes of lightning no significant rain came from this storm.

Taking the small dog for her walk on the warm morning of 23 January when we got to Commonwealth Park the fruit bats were very noisy.  Then they erupted from the trees.
While the Vogon work crew didn't materialise the previous night a TAMS team had, and their tender ministrations to a tree is what stirred up the bats.   Fortunately the TAMS crew didn't read us poetry either.
 It is just possiblethat the bats are reflected in the pond.  It was interesting to see a few of the bats swooping across the water and taking a drink on the wing.  Possibly there should be a rule of "Don't drink and fly".
I recorded 17 species of birds this morning giving me a total of 22 species for Commonwealth Park.

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