fungus fruiting body
Found during our visit to friends who live at the edge of Lake Clifton
2009-2012 the sixth shore
a ecosystemic soundscape project!
tuart dieback
A picture from our excursion to a property at the edge of Lake Clifton. This tree stump shows the shallow root system of the Tuart. I’m not sure whether this one fell over or was ‘pushed’ but at the same time tuarts in Yalgorup have suffered severe decline. “The Yalgorup region represents the largest …
plastic complexity
Thrown casually over discarded brush, this knot of bailer twine was on land where every skerrick of vegetation had been cleared for grazing — right down to the fenceline on Lake Clifton.
Conservation Council of WA: Bellwethers of Climate Change
From http://www.biodiversity2010.org.au/about/grant-recipients-round-3/ The White-striped Bat (Tadarida australis) is one of the largest insectivorous (microbats) in Australia. It is a fast flyer and tracks the open space above the tree canopy. Its speed gives it a wide foraging range and as a result it is one of the few bats routinely encountered over urban areas. …
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Mass flowering brings a ray of hope for the Yalgorup…
As reported in Science WA news: For the first time in 15 years, sections of the tuart woodland within the national park, just south of Mandurah, have produced prolific amounts of buds and flowers which will eventually bear fruit in time for the Centre’s 2011 seed collection program. An exciting mass flowering raises serious …
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old corrugated iron near Lake Clifton
This iron was part of a fence to stop rabbits (I think) around a Lake Clifton property. Different sheets had different vestiges of blue paint leading me to think long linear lakes and transverse dunes.
Kate Abon at PICA
Critical Writing Residency Kate Abon 6 July – 6 September 2010 Clock Tower Studio A phenomenological experience of landscape Kate Abon is a Perth based artist and arts writer who is interested in the way ontological paradigm shifts change the way we interact with the world. During the twentieth-century, the western philosophical treatment of …
Bruno Latour: “May Nature Be Recomposed? A Few Questions of Cosmopolitics”
The Neal Wheeler Watson Lecture 2010, given by Professor Bruno Latour: “May Nature Be Recomposed? A Few Questions of Cosmopolitics”. The Lecture is given every spring at the Nobel Museum by an international scholar of excellence. Location: Nobel Museum, Svenska Akademiens Börssal, May 11 2010. Your comments please: long, hard to decipher and convoluted; …
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The Pied Oystercatcher, Haematopus longirostris
the mister potatohead of the bird world peep a peep peep a peep peep a peep peep a peep peep a peep peep a peep
come to world listening day event
check the event calendar on the side — and come on Sunday 18 July at 12:50 pm for about a half an hour walk from the Round House in Fremantle.
World Listening at the Round House Sunday 18 July
You are invited to participate in the first World Listening Day, which happens on Sunday, July 18, 2010. World Listening Day celebrates the practice of listening as it relates to the world around us, environmental awareness, and acoustic ecology. Come for a sound walk starting at the cannon at 1pm and walking down High Street …
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I saw a wisp of snipe
I saw a wisp of snipe or at least a wisp of waders this morning. Lake Clifton was completely still with sharp flocks of white flying in fast lines across the surface. Two swans and reflections. Bloody noisy wattle birds.
for birders: Koos Dijksterhuis film about sanderlings on the beach of Schiermonnikoog
Created by Benny Klazenga, Jeroen Reneerkens, Koos Dijksterhuis The sound track is a bit daggy but the human/nonhuman interface was well done.
anybody in Scotland 7-10 May?
This workshop is about to be canceled due to lack of interest — what a shame as I really wanted to go and will be in Scotland at the time. It runs from the evening of the 7th to the morning of the 10th May at a place called Kindrogan (north of Perth, Scotland). …
Mythogeography (the book)
From Phil Smith: The book takes the form of a documentary-fictional collection of the internal documents, diary fragments, letters, emails, narratives, notebooks and handbooks of a loose coalition of performers, ‘alternative’ walkers, artists and lay geographers. All Illustrated in full colour by Tony Weaver, who designed the Wrights & Sites’ Mis-Guide books. The fragmentary …