Undulated Parakeet : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Undulated Parakeet / Giles Watson's poetry and prose
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| 説明 | Undulated ParakeetMother would not permit me to playwith the other children, for fear their dogmight smirch my best green dress,so I clung behind her back, watchingone boy clamber over logs to clutchgrubby hands with the girl in pinkand long blonde locks. Another ladscuffed his shoes and holed his britchescrawling in dust while the white pupleapt and yapped. There were others:a terrier, black and tan, scratchingthe leg of his callow master, and behind,lean and loping, brown as ochre,the natives’ dog, long gaunt head hung at a spearbearer’s heels. There wasa flag and a drum, and tents and brightmarines – one of these, too, had a shaggyspaniel thing – and men with swords,and elongated trees, their foliage smudged.Labourers lounged in the dry crunchof scorched grass, glad of this one dayfree from bricklaying. And I didn’t noticethe flag going up; by then my headwas turned to watch our other audience,approaching in a straggle, and the plumesof white from their distant fires. Menpresented arms, bayonet blades glistening,and then the crowd dispersed. Motherhad her mind on other things; I stayed,and out of sky they whirled in a glitterof bird-voices – clouds of parakeets,flitting through branches, perching, turningupside-down, puffing out blue-spottedthroats, stripe-headed myriads greenas England. And the lithe men walked onthrough clouds of descending birds, pastthe fresh-felled trees, brown dog scowling. Poem by Giles Watson, 2014. Picture: NM, Volume 16. Melopsittacus undulatus is better known these days as the Budgerigah. The incident described is the proclamation of the province of South Australia by Governor Hindmarsh on 28th December 1836, at the beginning of the Budgerigah breeding season, when the birds travel south from their arid haunts in the northern parts of the state. The description is based on Charles Hill’s painting, The Proclamation of South Australia 1836, Art Gallery of South Australia. South Australia was exclusively a colony of free-settlers, and the import of convicts was strictly forbidden. |
| 撮影日 | 2014-07-10 02:20:38 |
| 撮影者 | Giles Watson's poetry and prose , Oxfordshire, England |
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