I am woefully late in acknowledging and thanking cousin Linda for her sleuthing on the Radjah Shelduck, as informative as I could wish. I was delighted to know all about this elegant black-and-white fowl, having always a fondness for birds, those airy fragile-steel creatures of hollow bones and hidden air sacs that let them master the air. (The PBS Nature series just had a documentary on engineers trying to duplicate the best raptors' flight wings, the peregrine falcons especially, the fastest, timed between 124 and 168 mph when they're diving after prey.) So I decided to put together some of my bird photos as a belated thank you, and I suspect she already understands the pun on her name, linda being the Spanish adjective (feminine) for "cute, sweet, lovely," as in "Es una persona tan linda!" [She's such a lovely person.]
Not lawn ornaments but the amazing flamingoes balanced on single stilt legs, with strange shovel beaks.
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