And now for something topical: the Embassy of China,
photographed on a brisk July Canberra morning. The attendant birds are a
PEKIN ROBIN and a CHINESE POND HERON. I hasten to acknowledge that these
are not from my own camera, but are taken from the evocative illustrations in,
respectively, Hamlyn’s ‘Ornamental Birds’ (Libuse and Jaromir
Knotek) and ‘The Herons Handbook’ (Peter Hayman). The
disapproving magpie just happened to wander into the snap. Canberra
residents might recall the bamboo scaffolding used in construction of this
building, which caused a minor industrial issue.
