Wildlife Visitors – August 2017

It’s been a cold month so most things are hiding away hoping Spring will be here soon.

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Furry

Koala

Feathered

Crested Pigeon

Crimson Rosella

Tawny Frogmouth

Galah

Kookaburra

Magpie -nesting

Pardalote

Pardalote

Rainbow Lorikeet – nesting

Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo

Flighty

Bee

Fly

Small Wasp

Shield Bug

Creepy, Crawly, Slimy and Scary

Centipede

Earwig

Flat Worm and slugs

frog

Jumping Spider

Little spider

Little spiky spider

Millipede

Orange spider

Pie-dish Beetle and centipede

Redback Spider

Red and black ants

Slater family

Slug

Snails

Scaley

Three-toed Skink

Blue-tongue Lizard

Marbled Gecko

Skink

Sleeping Skink

OWPC: Island

Another suggestion from Jennifer Nichole Wells, this week it’s “island”.

Creating a scene is more difficult for me than simply finding one which matches the prompt, I hope I will improve.

OWPC: Insect

A new challenge for me from Jennifer Nicole Wells, “One Word Photo Challenge”. Nicole creates interesting photos of dioramas and the theme for the week is, “Insect” .

WPC: Corner

I’ve been watching a Blue-Tongue Lizard in our front yard for a while but the weather has been so cold and wet recently I’ve rarely glimpsed it. This morning the sun came out and I thought if I could find the patience to stand, watch and wait I might see it come around the corner of the rock. My patience was rewarded!

WPC: Ooh! Shiny

This week’s topic reminded me immediately of the cat in, “Red Dwarf” as he leapt in delight from one thing to another shrieking, “Oooh shiny thing, shiny thing.”

Nature provides so many, “Ooh shiny thing” moments for me but I’ve chosen a bird because they are what distract me most often.

… but it could have been Ewww shiny thing, slugs distract me too.

Starling

Slug

 

WPC: Elemental

A trickier task this week, capturing the elements, earth, wind, water and fire.

This time only the fire was photographed at home. I don’t usually appreciate the wind but I was pleased it showed itself today.

Earth

Fire

Water

WPC: Textures

My challenge this week was in limiting the number of photos I chose to illustrate, “Textures“. Luckily the rain held off and I was able to take them all this morning around my home.

Eucalyptus tree bark

Grey Box tree bark

Diosma leaves

Lamb’s Ear leaf

Elkhorn leaf

Old Lime

Moss

Mud Dauber Wasp nest

Old Pomegranate

Quartz rock

Rock

Rock2

Rotting wood pulp

Sawdust

Probably though the texture I find most fascinating is on a Praying Mantis egg case, it looks and feels a bit like polystyrene.

Wildlife Visitors – July 2017

The cold continues so there are not many interesting critters showing up.

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Furry

Feathered

Crested Pigeon

Tawny Frogmouth

Galah

Rainbow Lorikeet

Australian Magpie

Crimson Rosella

Red Wattlebird

Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos

Flighty,

Honey Bee

Ladybug

Creepy, Crawly, Slimy and Scary

Red and black ants

Centipede

Earwig

Egg cases on a Eucalypt leaf

Flat Worm

Little ant

Small spider

L-o-n-g worm

Pie-dish Beetle

Slug with friends

Snail

Spider

Scary spider

Spotty bug

Scaly

Blue-tongue Lizard sensed some sunshine

Three-toed Skink