Fans of good crime will recall the English translations of most, if not all of the Wallander novels have been available in Australia for the last few years. I hope someone working in the ABC or SBS catches up with these films and buys them for Australian release – by all accounts it is a series well worth watching.
April 11, 2009 – 11:44 pm
The Turkey Vulture is a common bird in the south of the United States and has a range from southern Canada to the tip of the southern American continent.
April 11, 2009 – 11:58 am
NT Fisheries Minister Kon Vatskalis told the ABC: “These fishermen, so called fishermen, took the fish out of the water and broke their back and threw them back in the water dead,” he said. “Well, I don’t think that is really playing by the rules.”
By Bob Gosford
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Posted in Uncategorized
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Tagged AFANT, Alfred Cort Haddon, Amateur Fishermans Association of the Northern Territory, Australian Institute of Marine Science, Cambridge Expedition, Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Chris Makepeace, Commercial fishermen, DEWHA, Freshwater sawfish, Green sawfish, Haddon Collection, illegal protein miners, Little Finniss River, Mabo - The Native Title Revolution, Minister Kon Vatskalis, NT Government, NT News, Rob Fish, Sawfish, Sawfish dance, Seafood Council
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Crows commute, heads down,
their line of black Fords slow
but steady. A heron keeps his Bentley in low gear.
By Bob Gosford
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Posted in Art, Birds and people, Fun stuff, The Arts, Writing and writers
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Tagged Dave Bonta, Festival of the Trees, Juniper Press, Mark Bonta, Moving Poems, Open Micro, Postal Poetry, Qarrtsiluni, Sarah Bennett, Shadow Cabinet, Spoil, Ten Poems about Highways and Birds, The Morning Porch, Tom Montag The Sweet Bite of Morning, via negativa, Visual Soma
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Margarets has been a work in progress over many years by the Reverend H. D. Dennis who was born in Rolling Fork, Mississippi in 1916. The min building has a long verandah fronted by a scattering of signs and sculptures across the front of the block. To one side is a jumbled and half-built, half-wrecked and slowly collapsing tower and an old bus which served, or may still serve, as a Chapel from which the good Reverend H D Dennis preaches.
By Bob Gosford
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Posted in Art, Fun stuff, Religion, Some places I've been, The Arts, Uncategorized
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Tagged Baton Rouge Louisiana, Cleveland Mississippi, folk architecture, Margaret's Grocery & Market. Reverend H D Dennis, Rolling Fork Mississippi, the Delta, UCM Museum, vernacular architecture, Vicksburg Mississippi
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The First Presbyterian Church at Port Gibson was built by the Reverend Zebulon Butler, who had the unfortunate distinction of also being the subject of its first service – his funeral.
By Bob Gosford
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Posted in Art, Some places I've been
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Tagged Baton Rouge, Delta State University, First Presbyterian Church, Georgia, Griffin, Mark Bonta, Mississippi, Natchez, New Orleans, northern Louisiana, Pentacostal, Port Gibson, The Church with the Hand Pointing Heavenward, Vicksburg
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In this paper on the local knowledge and belief systems about the Pangolin in Tanzania in east Africa Martin Walsh of Canbridge University in the UK discusses the role that Pangolin sightings and behaviour have in local environmental and political events
The Zanzibar Leopard, Panthera pardus adersi, is an elusive and possibly extinct subspecies endemic to Unguja (Zanzibar) Island. It has presumably been evolving in isolation from other leopards since at least the end of the last Ice Age.
New Orleans 4 years ago – there was no water purification equipment on site, no chemical toilets, no antibiotics and no anti-diarrheals stored for a crisis. There were no designated medical staff at work in the evacuation center.
By Bob Gosford
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Posted in Ethnoornithology, Some places I've been, Uncategorized
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Tagged Bird-man cult, Canis lupus, Cleveland, crypto-species, Dana Lepofsky, Delta State University, Easter Island, eastern Indonesia, El Ritual del Hombre-Pajaro, Felice Wyndham, Flores, Greg Forth, Hurricane Katrina, Idaho, International Society of Ethnobiology, Jami Wright, Louisiana National Guard, Mark Bonta, New Orleans, Nez Perce, Rapa Nui, Sara Tiffany, Society of Ethnobiology, Superdome, Wolf
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Spinifex Pigeons are Australian endemics and superbly adapted to life in the Australian arid zone. Their cryptic plumage means that they blend into the rocky ridges and red soils that are their favoured breeding and foraging habitats.
