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Bird caught in fish line - not so happy ending

from [John Layton] [Permanent Link][Original]
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Subject: Bird caught in fish line - not so happy ending
From: John Layton <>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 00:47:34 +0000

Back during early December, on the river adjacent to beautiful downtown Queanbeyan, we saw what appeared to be the desiccated carcass of a Little Pied Cormorant. Its leg caught on a length of monofilament line, the other end of which was entwined on a tree branch.

 

Anyhow there it was, wafting back and forth on the soft summer zephyrs like a piebald pendulum or, if you would, a monochrome metronome. Tic toc, tic toc ...

 

John Layton

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