Toilet Duck

No I don't mean the cleaning product that helps stop things sticking to the bowl. I guess I should have put a comma in there, or even a full stop.

As I've mentioned before we get a lot of wildlife in the yard. I was photographing about a dozen Rainbow Lorikeets on Saturday afternoon as they were feeding. I looked at the display on the back of the camera and saw that I had on shot left on the memory card and thought I'd better make the last one a good one. I couldn't be bothered to go upstairs and grab another card.

Lorikeets are strange birds, they'll sit around feeding or even doing nothing then all of a sudden they'll all take flight. They'll fly anywhere there is a gap. Rather, I should say they'll fly where there was a gap five minutes before. We've had lorikeets hit the car before and we've found them dead after flying into the side of our shed. Jess and Brett have looked after a couple of them with broken wings as a result of collisions. Needless to say, when they take flight and I'm in the back yard I've gotten used to ducking.

I was just starting to press the shutter release when this lot decided to fly away. I was standing in front of our garden arch at the time, one of the aforementioned gaps. I'm not sure if it was one of the birds, or my camera strap, but something brushed my forehead as I ducked.



I might start wearing a helmet while I'm out in the yard photographing birds.

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Where does the toilet come into this you ask. No they didn't poo on me, not this time anyway.

I've mentioned our toilets at work before as well. To save water our urinals flush automatically, but not as often as they used to. There's nothing wrong with that, in fact today it was probably a good thing.

I went for a pee this morning and as I walked in I noticed that one of the two urinals in there was getting pretty close to the top. I couldn't understand why people would continue to pee in there when it was obviously blocked. I chose not to stand next to it and instead went and used one of the cubicles (the shy-guy toilets). While standing there thinking bad thoughts about people that make a mess in toilets I heard the urinals flush.

Ahh, thought I, as I realised why the tide was getting high in that particular urinal. Then I heard the unmistakable sound of water (and other stuff) spilling onto the ground.

Needless to say, it was reported and fixed pretty quickly.