Friday essay: species sightings
- Written by John Kinsella, Professor of Literature and Environment, Curtin University
An echidna in the Western Granites at Jam Tree Gully.John Kinsella
A Rare Sight
The bird seen first time here in forty years sings lightly on the wire, you turn to touch the shoulder of a friend and turning back together find nothing but sky and wire trembling.
Brushtail possum evidenced. We had not seen one here in nine years, and there might not...