Archive for the 'Ducks Geese and Swans' Category

I have been featuring various idioms, their origins and meanings on my writing blog. Some of these feature bird related topics or words. Today I highlight another of these interesting expressions.
This week’s idiom: “To kill the goose which lays the golden eggs.”
Origin:
This saying comes from the Aesop’s fable The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs.
A […]

This week’s idiom: “A sitting duck.”
Meaning:
Someone or something that is ‘a sitting duck’ is an easy to hit target. Someone who is a ’sitting duck’ is open to an easy physical or verbal attack.
Origin:
This expression quite obviously comes from hunters, and duck shooters in particular. A sitting duck, on merely bobbing on the surface of […]

Vehicle Ferry crossing the River Murray
A beautiful spot near our home in Murray Bridge is the nearby town of Mannum. This pleasant community is also built on the banks of the River Murray. It is about a half hour drive from home. Mannum has several lovely picnic spots on the bank of the river. We […]

Cape Barren Geese
I have previously written about Cape Barren Geese near to Murray Bridge. On a trip to Meningie recently we saw several more flocks of this species. They too were grazing in dairy pastures. This was near the shores of Lake Albert. These flocks were not as large as that previously seen. Nevertheless, it […]

On a recent visit to Meningie, about an hour’s drive south of home, we passed a swamp area next to Lake Albert. The River Murray flows into Lake Alexandrina which in turn flows into Lake Albert. It is near the significant wetland called the Coorong.
In this swampy area we saw a large number of Australian […]