Wildlife Wednesday – 5

Creatures that I’ve been able to photograph this week. So many little birds tease me and flit away before I can get a decent photo.

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Blue-banded Bee and European Honey Bee

Baby Barking Gecko

Barking Gecko

Cabbage-White Butterfly

Family of Crested Pigeons chilling on the TV antenna

Eastern Spinebill

Kookaburras

Small Locust

Ringtail Possum

Rainbow Lorikeets

Silvereye

Hunstman Spider

Australia’s smallest bird, a Weebill.

Monday Macros 5

Ants at their nest entrance

Fly

Little Locust

Praying Mantis egg case -looks like polystyrene

Holes in the Praying Mantis egg case possibly made by the small wasp

Developing Strawberry

Very tiny fly

Floral Friday 1

Some of the flowers in the garden this week.

Hibiscus

Viola

Salvia – Lipstick

Salvia -black stems

Dietie

Miniature Rose -Chameleon

Miniature Rose -Calypso

Salvia -purple

Lavender

Wildlife Wednesday 4

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Young Australian Magpie

Red Wattlebird

Rainbow Lorikeet

Pie-dish Beetle

New Holland Honeyeater

Australian Magpie

Kookaburra

Uncooperative Koala

Cabbage-white Butterfly

Wildlife Wednesday -3

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European Wasp drinking in the Bird Bath

Garden Skink

Marbled Gecko

Blonde millipede

Slaters

Ringtail Possum looking uncomfortable

Red tailed Skink

Silvereye

 

 

Monday Macros 4

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Iridescent Ant

Garden Cockroach

Little Escallonia flower

Common Fly

Small fungus

Hoverfly on Salvia

Portuguese Millipede

Queen Ant and subjects -maybe

Tiny Jumping Spider

Monday Macros 3

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Cosmos stamens

Blue-banded Bee on Salvia

Feather with a stamen aboard

Mud Wasp larvae

Begonia stamens

White mould on rotting bark

Yellow mould on rotting bark

FOTD – April 10th -Chameleon Rose

This is a gorgeous miniature Rose, it changes colour as it ages so a single bush can have a range of colours on any one day.

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FOTD – April 9th – Orchid

Orchid

Wildlife Wednesday 2

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Bullies of the neighbourhood, Red Wattlebirds.

Scarlet Rosella

Koala

New Holland Honeyeater

Musk Lorikeet feeding on Grey Box blossom

Musk Lorikeet

Marbled Gecko

Young Magpie hoping for a bit of dog food.

Kookaburra

Crested Pigeon