Friday 2 October 2020

September 2020

 This month was mostly around home, but we did a day trip out to Harden via Dalton and Boorowa and another across the Brindabellas to Tumut and back through Kiandra.


Olive-backed Oriole - Spring Arrival

Windswept Galahs

Australian Reed Warbler - Another Spring Arrival

National Museum of Australia at night

Common Mynas

Yellow and Yellow. Cape Daisies and Wattle

Esme after a swooping Magpie

This is the dust blown paddock in January's Selection after rain

Cape Daisies up the hill

 Metal Brumbies outside the Dalton Pub


Hola! Canola

Green and Gold

Canola crop tracks



Milky Way at Weetangera Cemetery

Kookaburra clearing out a nest hollow

Female Satin Bower Bird



After the rain


Snow on the Brindies
Goodradigbee River

Patterson's Curse and Cape Daisies

Black-fronted Dotterel

We stopped for a break at Blowering Dam and found Carp spawning in the shallows.  Esme was determined to either catch them or chase them away,










The aftermath of last summer's fire in the area was plainly seen.  The devastation stretched from Blowering  through to past Providence Portal.  The Kiandra Pub building is just a shell and the historic miners' cottages are just standing chimneys.  Mt Selwyn Ski Lifts and complex have been wiped out -  Snow Gums are burnt to the ground.  The recent snow fall covered a lot of the burnt out area, but the results were plain to see.







Brumbies were evident from Bullock Hill trail to Eucumbene Plain





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