January 2025

 A Happy New Year to All

Just out and about around Canberra and surrounds.

Australian Raven on the birdbath

Above and below - progress on the bridge over the Molonglo River at Coppins Crossing

Australian White Ibis at West Belconnen Pond

Little Black Cormorants fishing for Redfin 

Little Pied Cormorants

More Little Black Cormorants  - there were at least 5 groups around the pond

Storm Approaching over our back yard

Above and below - Tuggeranong homestead party venue

At the National Archives

Pelicans and the Black Swan cob 

- keep away from my cygnets

Welcome Swallows

At the Women's T20 cricket Oz vs England - Manuka Oval

Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo

Murray Cod from Lake Burley Griffin

Red Wattlebird in the banksia

Echidna snuffling and shuffling

October 2024

 

Himself keeping the eggs warm

Pipit posting

Straw-necked Ibis clearing grubs

And around the dam

Drone view of the equestrian Centre

Black Swan pen and cygnets

Junior Frogmouth looking around under Dad's care

Yellow Spoonbill

Growth of new apartments in Denman Prospect

Roadside Rest Area - crashed car art

Uriarra low level crossing over the Murrumbidgee

Frogmouth Family - nearly ready to fly

Eastern Rosella nipping off my flowers

Eucumbene - Middlingbank arm

Just wondering if someone lost Xmas Dinner

Halloween

Halloween

Halloween

August & September 2024

 Sorry - I thought I had sent out an August Blog - cannot find it so am combining it with September.

 A pair of Little Corellas turned up at our bird seed and terrorised the local Sulphur-crested Cockatoos

The Eastern Spinebills are still around and spend a lot of time in the red Eremophila

One of a flock of 20 plus Goldfinches

This Spotted Pardalote kept looking for a hollow

 that had been sealed up where we had coffee

An old shearing shed near Coppins Crossing

Male Superb Fairywren

Sunrise 

Great Cormorants at West Belconnen Pond

Cattle feeding

Our Tawny Frogmouth sitting

One of the vehicles at the Canberra Classic Cars run

Old Fassifern Stables

Old Fassifern Stables

Old Fassifern Stables

Jim took me for a day trip down the south coast with Jasmin. 

Bingi Point

Jasmin (looking like Gandalf without the beard)

Red-capped Plovers

Gulls and Terns - sheltering from the wind

SeaSpray

Eastern Reef Heron

Sooty Oystercatcher

Looking south towards Bermagui

Lace along the beach

Bingi Point

Rainbow over the house opposite from #33

The U3A group we belong to had a bus trip to Goulburn.  Our first stop was

Hamilton Hume's residence at Goulburn.

 It is still lived in by Hume's descendants

Organ at Goulburn Cathedral

Yellow-faced Honeyeater

Kookaburra looking for a feed

Pipit on a post