My Body Speaks...

I write this with an air of missed pleasures and a feeling of disappointment. My body spoke it's mind this morning by either (a) not hearing the alarm, or (b) hearing the alarm, telling my hand to turn it off and not tell the rest of my body and then slyly went back to sleep. Neil called me at 6.30am wondering where I was...panic...oh boy, much cursing and apologies from my side of the phone. Laughter and slagging from the other end. I was gutted. Simply gutted. I went back to bed and tried to get some more sleep. The phone rings again, waking me from my slumber...Neil. It's 1pm, I have now slept for close to 14 hours, my body is definitely telling me something. I have not slept this long for as long as I can remember. Neil is looking at the Stellar's Eagle...gutted is by now not even relevant. Utter disappointment, the type one feels at the age of 12 after losing the cup final, it's not pretty. I thank him for his kindness and allowing me to dewll on the mental image of where the bird is EXACTLY sitting. With thousands of duck, more than our last visit, I am truly dejected. I still am. Hopefully I can get out tomorrow with Neil if he decides to go to Amagasaki. I hope he decides to go. I need my fix.

I sloped off to Umeda to look at the sales in Yodobashi camera. The new Nikon D200 is out and the reviews are excellent. I managed to have a look at one in Yodobashi. Oh boy, it's nice. My friend in another camera shop was not working so I will call back to negotiate a swap deal with my present camera. The D200 is the way forward. Maybe purchasing this will lift my gloom today but my credit card will certainly self-destruct!! Someother time I feel, save some money first!!

Anyway, back to my photograph editing. I hope you enjoy the Kingfisher and the Japanese Wagtail I saw in Kyoto yesterday. A bright bird to brighten up a dull, overcast day. Maybe I'll go to bed at 8pm tonight...

Carmo's diet: today I've mostly been dwelling on what got away...aaagggghhhhhh!!!!! There's always Hokkaido though :)

PS: just off to phone to Neil, not only did they see a Stellar's Eagle, but picked up a second bird hunting duck at a different location in the evening...I'm sick to my stomach. Also some Daruian Jackdaw's, long-billed plovers, whistling swan and rooks. A total of 70 species...what a day to be too exhausted to hear an alarm go off. Still, off to Amagasaki tomorrow so fingers crossed we'll see something decent.