Wildlife Visitors in December 2016

This is the wildlife I’ve seen around our home this month and managed to photograph. You can check out the wildlife which visits or lives at other bloggers’ homes at Wildlife Wednesday.

Passing the cursor over the photo will bring up the caption, clicking on a photo will take you to a slideshow.

Furry

Koala

Brushtail Possum

Ringtail Possum

Feathered

Adelaide Rosella

Crested Pigeon

Crimson Rosella juvenile

Eastern Rosella

Eastern Spinebill

Young Tawny Frogmouth

Grey Shrike-Thrush

Australian Magpie

New Holland Honeyeater taking a shower

Rainbow Lorikeet in the Loquat Tree

Raven

Silvereye

Red Wattlebird -taking a shower in the sprinkler

Flighty

Honey Bee drinking

Cabbage White Butterfly

Cicada exoskeleton, I can hear the real things!

Common Brown Butterfly

Common Brown Butterfly

Damselfly

European Wasp

Fly

Grasshopper

Hoverfly

Marbled Xenica Butterfly

Mason Wasp -I think

Little Moth

Painted Lady Butterfly

Southern Grass-darts

Monarch Butterfly

Mud Wasp -maybe

Scaly

Marbled Gecko

Skink -at home in an artificial flower

Creepy, Crawly, Slippery, Slimy and Scarey

Ant with seed

Black beetle

Black beetle

Boxer Bark-Mantis

Rusty looking beetle

Cabbage White caterpillar

Christmas Beetle

Christmas Beetle

Defensive Citrus Swallowtail caterpillar

Earwig

Frog

Tiny Jumping Spider

Native Cockroach

Piedish beetle

Pittosporum Bugs

Scorpion

Shield Bug

Nocturnal spider

Yellow bellied white spider

Rescued tadpoles

Tiny caterpillar on Lantana flower

Vine Moth caterpillar

Monarch caterpillar

Little white spider

Resilient

This old, living Gum Tree seems a great example of resilience to me. It’s being crowded by Ash Trees and its exposed roots are clinging to rocks where over the years the ground has been washed away by a creek.

You can check out other interpretations of “resilient” here.

Path

This path leads to the railway station near our home. In 1985 either side of the path was nothing but weeds, stones and baked clay but when a neighbour retired he started planting shrubs and caring for them. I’m sure very few people care or even know what job he did for his entire working life but everyone who walks along the path appreciates the work he’s done here.

Macro Moments: Week 23

For this week’s Macro Moments I’ve taken a photo of some little ants on a Hoya flower.

I took some photos with my Canon 350D and Sigma macro lens but this one taken with the little Panasonic Lumix TZ60 set on iA was the best.

Anticipation

Waiting in anticipation of some delicious seafood. It didn’t disappoint!

Macro Moments: Week 22

This week my “Macro Moment” features a tiny Jumping Spider, just a few millimetres long. It reminds me of Father Christmas with its whiskers and it looks like there is fur on top of a hat. Maybe though I’ve just been driven bonkers by all the Christmas paraphernalia about. 🙂

Taken with my Panasonic Lumix DMZ-TZ60 on Macro setting , cropped in PSE.

New Horizon

The challenge this week is to illustrate, “New Horizon“, I think this photo fits the bill.

Macro Moments: Week 21

Common Brown Butterfly

Check out “Musin’ With Susan” for more Macro Moments.

Relax

At this time of year it’s a struggle, drivers and shoppers are manic. There seems to be no escape from the madness but I’m lucky, I can relax just gazing out from my house.

In just a few weeks though on days when the hot north winds blow and the temperatures are high I’ll try to relax elsewhere!