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!
Month: May 2020
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
You can see an image full sized by clicking on it.
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.
Floral Friday 3
Begonia
Correa – pale lemon
Correa – red
Tiny Daisy
Not flowers but still eye catching.
Viola
Flinders Ranges Wattle
Grevillea
Grevillea not fully open
Red Grevillea
Orchid Flowers still looking perfect after several weeks
Echeveria developing a flower head
Also flowering is a succulent I haven’t been able to identify.
Wildlife Wednesdays 6
Eastern Spinebill
Check out my teeth!
I’m all ears.
Rainbow Lorikeets
Redback Spider and egg case
Red Wattlebird
Garden Skink
We heard a Koala calling last night but couldn’t see one anywhere this morning then late this afternoon I spotted one and it posed for me.
Sitting here writing this post I heard Rosellas squabbling so had to investigate.
Black-faced Cuckoo Shrike
Adelaide Rosella
snaphappi 