May 2020 – snaphappi

Wildlife Wednesday – 9

Here in South Australia it feels as though Winter has already arrived and not gently. Today was cold, for us, I only saw one bee at work!

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Macro Mondays 9

I decided today I’d look only at flower stamens and stigma, there is certainly a wide range of shapes and sizes.

Correa – lemon

Eremophila – red

Eremophila – salmon

Flamboyant Grevillea

LillyPilly

Plumbago

Polygala

Snapdragon

Unknown shrub

Strawberry

Tacoma

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Floral Friday – 5

It’s raining today, not heavily but consistently, hence the watery photos.

Little Daisy

Dejected Dietie

Grevillea

Lantana

Lavender

Plumbago

Polygala

Rose bud

Rosemary

Tacoma buds

Snapdragon

Strawberry flower

Salvia – Lipstick

I was curious about the lack of droplets hanging from the Lavender flowers maybe it’s because of their oil.

Wildlife Wednesdays -8

Centipede -it was in wood we were taking out of the back of the car

Crested Pigeon

Tawny Frogmouths

Adelaide Rosella -male, feeding in a Cotoneaster shrub

Young Australian Magpie

Pie-dish Beetle

Garden Skink

Eastern Spinebill

Adelaide Rosella -female

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Monday Macros -8

Ants with some of their eggs

Bee on Salvia

Begonia stamens

Millipede

Tannin coloured moisture droplets

Salvia velvet

Red, silver, gold

Slater

Newly hatched Slater and ant eggs

Garden slug

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Floral Friday 4

Strawberry flower

Salvia -Lipstick

Salvia -blue

Salvia -annual

Prunus leaves

Prostrate succulent

Prostrate Eremophila

Plumbago

Lantana

Grevillea

Eucalypt seedcases

Eucalypt

Eremophila -upright

Tiny Daisy

Cosmos

Wildlife Wednesdays 7

I haven’t had much luck this week capturing photos of what’s been around so I decided to give this week a miss. Until early this evening.

When my husband went up the driveway to our rubbish bins he spotted a little possum lying at the foot of a tree with two Tawny Frogmouths up above, no other possum in sight.

It was rescue time.

This is the first Ringtail we’ve seen with such dark colouring, its back looked black and it actually had a tawny red tail. The only ones we’ve seen before had white at the end of the tail but the Vet said these are fairly common.

When I left her at the Surgery she was snuggled down inside an employee’s jumper.

Monday Macros 7

After recent rain I noticed what looked like tiny Iron filings floating in one of the dog’s water dishes but I suspected it was actually a raft of Springtails. I took some photos with my little Panasonic Lumix TZ70.

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