Posts Tagged urban wildlife
Life’s Too Short
Posted by 'Pong in Personal, Photography on 29/11/2009
COFA Annual 09 Opening was on and I felt shitty with the people I was trying to associate with. I just could not pretend that I fitted in. It was very disappointing that I chose to hang around with them instead of joining Media in the Pub. At least, I knew there would be more mature people there. So I cast myself out from the party and walked to Central Station to catch the train home.
Then there was this and I was fascinated by it. Yeah! A dead rat just made my night.
Striped Marsh Frog
Posted by 'Pong in Photography, Wildlife on 17/11/2009
Back in spring 2006, Artemis got something from our backyard. It was a striped marsh frog (Limnodynastes peroni), our regular spring visitors in our scrubby little pond. It was unfortunate for her that its skin was poisonous and frothed her mouth and it took a couple of times she caught it until she learned the lesson.
Fresh Meat
Posted by 'Pong in Photography, Sydneyscape, Wildlife on 23/07/2009
Death is an essential part of life. Deal with it!
Vanishing Marshland
Posted by 'Pong in Photography, Travel, Wildlife on 20/01/2008
Change is inevitable and it comes at a cost.
First morning light in Thailand trip revealed an empty marshland in the back of my brother’s house where I stayed for a few weeks. This property was left unoccupied quite sometime ago. I was really glad that there were many green areas remained untouched in Bangkok.
It created a nature micro ecology as an oasis in Bangkok’s urban desert. Bird’s habitats were protected by willows and plants grew organically as well as frogs and snakes in the marshland.
Then the land owner decided to develop the property and profit from this investment. The marshland has to go and give way to another housing estate. An excavator squashed the unwanted weeds down to the ground and concrete rubble from other demolition was used for filling the marshland.
A new ecology was generated from this transforming landscape. It welcomed people into once an abandoned field. Local members seized the opportunity to collect scrap metal to sell it.
The flattening made it easier for a predator to look for food on the ground since the hide was destroyed whereas some found that its dwelling had gone in a flash. However, sooner or later, there would not be any food or home left for the wildlife benefited from this vanishing green.
It was a heart-broken to witness this change. It was happening in front of my eyes and I am sure it is everywhere.
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