Weekly Wanderings

Dunlop Pond (Panorama taken with iPhone)

A few mornings this week, my walk has been around the Dunlop Pond instead of Umbagog Park along Ginninderra Creek.  Dunlop Pond is one of many water quality control ponds around the ACT to maintain water quality going into the Murrumbidgee River.  Most of these ponds have been made home by a variety of birds,

Pelicans on a rock

Pelican Blues

Juvenile Swallows

Local birds continue to make good use of the bird bath in the garden, and I have been trying my hand at videoing them.  Once I get a reasonable number of clips, they will be combined into a longer video (more learning - this time iMovie).

Red Wattlebird

I am often amazed at what can look good in a photo - these old car doors resting against the side of a house.

Or taps - when I had to replace the garden tap.

Summer has now arrived, and the grasses are seeding.  Mostly it is wild oats, phalaris and paspalum but there are patches of Kangaroo Grass  and others that catch the eye.

Kangaroo Grass seed head

Kangaroo Grass seed heads

A green/yellow split tone study.

This time without the seeds 

One early morning walk found the Frogmouth family back on location, but they had moved on the following 

day.

Family growing

Light rain on G Creek

Another of  the water quality control ponds.

Fassifern Pond

For the last couple of weeks Canberra has had  literally millions of Caper White butterflies passing through on a migration from west to east.  This one stopped over for a rest and feed before moving on.