Of rare birds and work packs

 We are resuming with work packs and then online lessons. Was in yesterday sorting things out and still have a bit more to do before the work goes out on Monday. We're doing it for two weeks and will then assess what ED says from there. I have a sneaky feeling though that we are going to be at this for a while. The death rates for COVID do keep rising. At this rate I might be teaching online when I start at CHISI. Am doing an online course on inquiry-based learning and online tools you can use for it. Am a bit new to student-led learning.

Tomorrow I go for more physio on my achilles tendon. It's still a bit tender. I am not entirely sure what I did to it. Might have been while I was training last year, but it flared up over Christmas and at one point I was hobbling around, not able to walk properly. Have been given exercises to do for it at home by the physio and going to try do Pilates with my sister online tonight. Don't think it's up to Zumba just yet. Would be nice to exercise though, I miss the endorphins.

So today there was a flurry of activity on the Monavale Nature WhatsApp group. Several people had recorded what we thought to be a variant of a red chested cuckoo. It didn't seem quite right though, so I asked friends who are avid members of BirdLife. Long and the short of it was it turned out to be a far rarer Madagascar cuckoo, which was last recorded in Zimbabwe in 1998 and which has never been photographed here before. Everyone in the group is very excited and chuffed it decided to visit Monavale and it was photographed!