Strange thing at Fyshwick Sewerage Ponds today

[Julian Robinson <>]

Geoffrey kindly offered to give me a tour of the Fyshwick Sewerage Ponds
(FSP at times on this list) this afternoon.  In such situations I
ask lots of questions, many of them not related to the matter at hand. As
we were walking back to the official carpark around 5pm I had a small
urge of this kind and asked G a singularly irrelevant question given we
were in a wetland environment and I had just met quite a few ducks for
the first time.  I asked "Have you ever come across any quail
that you actually see on the ground before they flush and
disappear?"  At the exact moment that the last word was coming
out of my mouth, two Brown Quail burst out of the grass and thistles in
front of us and did the quail thing disappearing into the sun.  It
was a truly stupendous coincidence. 

We then realised there were others (probably juvenile) still around and
even managed to get a couple of recognisable photos of quail in profile
which is probably the last time in my life this will ever occur. 

We also disturbed a raptor from its meal of young rabbit -- it also moved
very quickly into the sun and disappeared before even the experienced
hand could get a good look at it.

I am considering religious conversion but haven't decided what this
strange incident points me towards.

Julian