Wildlife Visitors in October 2016

October was unusually cold, wet and miserable with only a few sunny days. These animals visited our place, not all of them are really

“visitors”, some live here all the time, though I don’t usually see them.

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Furry

Koala

Ringtail Possum

Feathered

Male Tawny Fromouth

Red Wattlebird on Grevillea Robusta

Kookaburra

Little Raven

Tawny Frogmouth and chicks

Sunbaking Magpie

Rainbow Lorikeet on Bottlebrush

Crimson Rosella

Striated Pardalote

Female Tawny Frogmouth

Flighty

Damselfly

Moth

Locust -brown camo

Locust -green camo

Blue bottomed fly

Monarch Butterfly

Little butterfly

Southern Grass Dart

Meadow Argus Butterfly

Bitterbush Blue Butterfly

Australian Admiral Butterfly

Honey Bee

Scaly

Blue-tongue Lizard

Three-toed Skink

Skink family

Curious Skink

Marbled Gecko with regrown tail

Barking Gecko

Creepy, Crawly, Slimy or Scary

Termites

Scorpion

Millipedes

Inch Ant

Flatworm

Curl Grub

Centipede and slug

Unidentified caterpillar

Ants at work in the nursery

Transmogrify

For the Weekly Photo Challenge Dad’s old brushes and funnels transmogrify into a garden sculpture.

Macro Moments: Week 16

My “Macro Moment” photo this week is of a native Blue-banded Bee at a Salvia flower.

 

Crop from an image taken with my Panasonic Lumix, TZ-60 a nice little “point and shoot” with a Leica lens.

Zealous

Thanks Ceenoa for hosting the Emotography Showcase, it’s been fun participating but I’ve reached the end of the alphabet so that’s it for me.

Shine

The challenge this week was to photograph something which caught your eye then seemed to disappear when you moved. My photo is of the shine caused by some oil on a footpath which did just that.

 

Macro Moments Challenge Week 15: Fall

In southern Australia just now it’s Spring rather than “Fall” so these are actually new shoots, not autumn leaves but I think they suit the topic.

The little bug is a Native Cockroach.

Yearning

Almost my last post for the Emotography Showcase.

Local

This week’s photo challenge topic meant we just had to go to our favourite local cafe where I was compelled to order pancakes with berries and icecream. I make lots of sacrifices to get the photo I want.

eXhilarated

Another photo for the Emotography Showcase.

I know there could be a range of emotions associated with this experience or even the thought of it but for my husband the feeling was pure exhilaration.

 

Macro Moments: Week 14

My contribution this week to the Macro Moments challenge, not bubbles but water droplets on a CD.

Canon 350D, f22, 1/100, ISO 400

Sigma 105mm DG Macro lens

Tripod used but no flash