Cloud feathers with bats

6:52pm. At first just clouds

6:54pm

7:06pm. Then clouds of newly woken bats (full size view is best)

Hundreds of them rise up from the harbourside trees in the Botanic Gardens every evening at sunset, heading east to forage.

The bats look like this and this.

April dawn reflections

7:19am
7:21am


7:22am



7:23am

17 minutes later

6:56 to 6:58pm

No electricity, plenty of sunbeams

6:28 to 6:39pm, near the end of the big blackout over the north CBD and Eastern Suburbs.

Sunset tinged contrail