Garden Orb-Weaver Spider (a very full one)
Wednesday, 17 March 2021
Thursday, 16 January 2020
The resilience of mother nature
Our Mrs Blackbird is a real battler. Early in spring she was attacked by we don't know who and broke her right foot as you can see. That has not stopped her from building three new nests and rearing successfully a total of 5 babies and believe it or not she has just completed building another nest in one of my chain cacti (Christmas cacti in northern hemisphere) pots.
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Birds
Wednesday, 4 September 2019
Apsley Falls, Oxley Wild Rivers National Park NSW
On our travels, we stopped over at the Apsley Falls campground. Picturesque with impressive views of the river gorge. Well worth a visit if you're ever driving the Oxley Highway between Walcha and Wauchope.
The first night we were there, we had a nocturnal visitor. This old possum spooked us to start with when he tipped the grilling tray out of the camp stove (we suspect to get to the toast crumbs).
An Australian magpie (and his mates) came to check us out.
Butcherbird.
The first night we were there, we had a nocturnal visitor. This old possum spooked us to start with when he tipped the grilling tray out of the camp stove (we suspect to get to the toast crumbs).
An Australian magpie (and his mates) came to check us out.
Butcherbird.
Labels:
Birds,
Bush,
Marsupials,
NSW,
Scenic
Wednesday, 20 February 2019
Tuesday, 19 February 2019
Nesting Australian Native Crested Pigeon
We have a pair of Crested Pigeons that nest around the property, though usually in a more dense tree than this. Australian Birdlife refer to the nest as delicate, but that's putting it politely. Their nests are more a mess of a few twigs that takes them a short time to construct. Both parents share the incubation -- we often hear the bird on the nest calling for his/her mate to change over. Because there is always a bird on the nest, they don't suffer the egg predation other birds do. Though I'm sure they only breed to feed the local raptors. :(
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Birds
Tuesday, 8 January 2019
Yellow-faced Honeyeater Nest
Just after Christmas, we discovered a nest with three Yellow-faced Honeyeater nestlings in the Chilean guava tree in our fruit tree ‘cage.’ Hidden deep in the foliage, the nest is suspended with spiderweb and various threads between two branches. We didn’t want to disturb them, so waited until they had fledged before taking photos.
Friday, 19 October 2018
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