Nature the Artist

Dragonfly Reflection

Like a Wasp to Apple Blossom

Reflections of a Farm Dam

Spring Flowers

Love is in the Air

Sulphur-crested Cockatoos

Pied Currawong and Rainbow Lorikeet

Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos’ Handiwork

I thought you might like to see some of the Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos’ handiwork:

At a Bend in the Driveway

LOOKING TOWARD THE ROAD

The drought has broken. For the first time in years, the dams are full and everything is so green and lush that you’d be forgiven for thinking it was another region.

I took these two photos standing at a bend in our driveway: one looking down the drive toward the road, the other looking up the drive toward the house. If I remember, I’ll repeat the photos at the height of summer.

LOOKING TOWARD THE HOUSE

Pacific Gulls (Coffin Bay SA)

From the archives: May 2009 Coffin Bay, South Australia



Juvenile Pacific Gull

Adult Pacific Gull



Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos

 A family of Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos arrived this week and proceeded to decimate our wattle trees to get at the wood-boring grubs deep in the branches and trunks.

Pink and Grey Galahs

Eucalyptus Flowers

Like many related plants, the conspicuous parts of the flowers of the majority of the species are the stamens, the male parts of the flowers. These surround the central stigma which arises from the flower's ovary. In Eucalyptus and Corymbia the petals and stamens are fused into a cap called an operculum which covers the flowers at the bud stage. As the flower opens the cap is shed. It is, in fact, the operculum which gives Eucalyptus its name (eu, well and calyptos covered). –  Australian Native Plants Society

Pied Currawong (Gipsy Point VIC)

Southern Old Lady Moth (Dasypodia Selenophora)

Little Wattlebird (Gipsy Point VIC)