November/December 2016

This month starts off with a couple of images of our local creek showing the growth following a very wet spring.

Ginninderra Creek Growth

Ginninderra Creek Growth

Consequently 'Weeds and Seeds' have been mowing regularly..

Our King's Park Bottlebrushes flowered from mid- November to early December and were regularly visited by the resident Red Wattlebirds and passing Rainbow Lorikeets.

Red Wattlebird feeding on Bottlebrush nectar

Rainbow Lorikeet also on the Bottlebrush

A morning visit to the Australian National Botanic Gardens provided native flowers in profusion, but few birds.  The morning was hot and windy.

Sturt Desert Pea (Black Centre)

and Red Centre

Bugs Bunny 

Noisy Friarbird on a Xanthorrea flower spike

Cunningham's Skink 

We were fortunate to have both Willie Wagtails and Magpie Larks nesting in the same tree and the young ones fledged within a couple of days of each other.

Rufous Whistler

Willie on nest

Feed me Mum - Magpie Larks (Peewees)

Magpie Larks (Peewees) nearly ready to fly

Willie Wagtails demanding to be fed

One morning was spend around Lake Burley Griffin

SIEV X Memorial

National Museum

Acton development

And to finish - some days at Mollymook/Ulladulla.   A strong wind warning was broadcast for most of our stay.

Sunrise on Narrawallee Beach

Mollymook Beach headland

Ulladulla Harbour

Warden Head Lighthouse

Storm brewing over Narrawallee

Molly at play

Sunrise at Bannister Head

October - November 2016

Recovery underway - being slowed by an extended hay-fever season.

We had a very enjoyable drive out through Sutton, Gundaroo, Gunning and Dalton to Boorowa and return.

Royal Hotel at Gundaroo

Downtown Gundaroo

Abandoned harvesters

Canola fields

At the end of the month we had five days at Mollymook travelling down via Kangaroo Valley.  Not much in the way of fishing, but enjoyable nonetheless.

In the mist

Fitzroy Falls

Hoverfly

Kookaburra

Three waders in Narrawallee Inlet

Motionless Heron

Waiting for a summer's day

Whale playing off Bannister Head

Narrawallee Beach sunrise - Day 2

Narrawallee Beach sunrise - Day 3

Narrawallee Beach sunrise - Day 4

Sunrise Narrawallee Beach - Day 5

Washerwoman Bay - Bendalong (southern end)

Washerwoman Bay - Bendalong  (northern end)

Green Island - Cunjurong Point

Entrance at lake Conjola

Narrawallee Beach - Day 5

Sacred Kingfisher on my morning walk

Willie Wagtail on nest

Australian Reed Warbler

Across Lake Ginninderra

 The above photo had a horrible grey sky, so I experimented with a textured overlay to get this result.

I spent a couple of hours at the local zoo - and it seemed as if it was the tiger day.

Observing the observer

A kiddie ran past, which attracted the attention

The above photo had a horrible blue cast, so again it was looking at an overlay and some post processing magic to get his shot.

One of the giraffes

Circus in town

Eastern Grey Kangaroos at Lake Ginninderra

White-winged Triller with nesting material

These last three were all I could get of the sky while waiting on the supermoon.  Any change of a moon photo was blotted out by clouds until about 9.0pm when the moon was well up in the sky.