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My contribution for this week’s challenge…
Change
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Nature rules my offering again this week.
Back in the 60s and 70s we would often sight
six or eight swans flying inland (north)
during warm to hot weather.
We began to note that within a day or two
our warm weather would have turn cold and wet.
Conversely during a spell of cold, wet and windy weather
those same swans would be battling their way
south into a head strong south wind.
And the sun would begin to shine.
The swans, or our forecasts, became a bit of a joke among us.
We began to watch how fast they were flying
(I resisted the urge to say flapping their wings).
Flying at Sunday drive speed meant we had
two to three days before the weather changed.
If they were moving along like a hoon driver
bad weather was upon us by day’s end.
A more reliable sign of the change of seasons
is the Acacia (Wattle) trees commencing to bloom.
Most Acacias bloom in July or August and have always
been noted as a sign that spring is just around the corner.
Although there has been some editing to
accentuate the pony tails in this photo,
this sky has always been a fore runner of a change of weather.
It was taken half an hour before the ibis shots at the top of this post.
The sighting of these ibis heading inland, and this sky,
may have been co-incidence,
however we did experience two of our coldest
September days in over twenty years a few days later.
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WoollyMuses 
It must have been amazing seeing a whole flock of swans flying. I can’t even imagine such a sight!
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It is amazing watching flocks of any birds in flight, I think….particularly smaller more agile birds.
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swans are such amazingly elegant birds. we are accostomed to seeing their elegance on water, I cant even begin to think about what a flock flying in the sky must look like. pelicans flying always to me look a tad awkward, whereas in the water, they seem more natural.
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Agreed
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