Category: Animals

Birds

As the heatwave continues

| January 31, 2014
OK, technically it is not a heatwave as we only got to 34.8 degrees yesterday, rather than the regulation 35 degrees. And the ‘heatwave’ is not actually continuing,
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Birds

Kookaburra roost

| August 5, 2013
Very often, especially on cold nights, we will have a family of kookaburras all nestle together on the same branch in one of our eucalypts. Anywhere between two
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Marsupials

Surprise Bulb

| July 15, 2013
We have a garden bed dedicated to bulbs, most of the year it looks barren except for the weeping crabapple in the centre and the spectacular liquid amber
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Birds

Eastern Spinebill

| June 22, 2013
You can always tell when the Eastern Spinebills are around. You can hear their clapping wings as they fly way before you actually see them. They flit around
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Birds

Crimson Rosella

| May 30, 2013
  As the weather turns colder we get visited by the Crimson Rosellas. Being a city girl, I just assumed they were the same size as our lovely
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Birds

Superb Wren

| October 17, 2010
This beautiful little lonely superb wren was hanging around in our shrubs out the front on his own at the beginning of Spring. He had not yet developed
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Lizards

Do Goannas Eat Dust?

| March 22, 2010
We have known for a while that a goanna (technically a Lace Monitor) frequented our house. When the weather turned hot in November we got a little concerned
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