Welcome Shearwaters

INVITATION TO CONTRIBUTE

Shearwaters return

CURRENT EXHIBITION

October 2013

Welcome Shearwaters.

While the weather whistles and taps outside

bringing shearwaters back

I thought

we could 'sing'* them home with images

sounds

anything

about on inspired by these resilient 

incredible birds?

Along the way 

I've learned their

hearts enlargen,

their stomachs shrink

and they travel 10,000 km

from Siberia to Australia

every year and back again

to lay their eggs in rookeries along the south eastern

coast.

Same nest

every year.

Last year I heard the chirping young in their nest for the first time.

Found several broken eggs.

Two years before,

a new resident to Phillip Island,

I thought I had hit one on the road

and drew this drawing (above) for it.

I bought this knitted shearwater for edith's first birthday at the local CWA in Cowes.

and knitted the eggs for it.

Edie puts them in her mouth

now,

the eggs.

shearwater having teeth brushed by edith. may 2013.

Would love to post your shearwater works and reflections too.

Warmth,

Sarah

(ref: *Singing the Coast by Somerville and Perkins 2010)