December 2020

 GOODBYE 2020 - HERE'S YOUR HAT, THERE'S THE DOOR.

Another 'Stay at Home Month'.  Covid clusters keep happening.

Early December I took the dogs for a walk at Lake Ginninderra and there must have been thousands of cicadas hatch overnight.  They were on grass stems, tree trunks, signs and anything to get them off the ground.  Birds were having a feast.

Cicada

European Starling beating a cicada before eating.

Remaining photos were taken either in our garden, or on my morning dog walk in Umbagong District Park or along Parkwood Road.  Everywhere grass is waist high or higher, and very dense.

Kangaroos were coming out onto the mown grass to feed.

Morning mist rising from Ginninderra Creek.

Sunshine on grass.

I had a great year for Kangaroo Paw in the garden.

Kookaburra is a regular on the walk.

Damselfly resting on the bottlebrush.

Red-browed Finches are hard to find this year - so much feed seed around.

Silvereye passing through

Horsefield Bushlark with grub.  I printed this one for the wall.

This gang had to investigate the dogs and me.

Buff-banded Rail sneaking through a swampy patch.

Hay rolls and long shadows

Black Angus and tall grass

Black-shouldered Kite

Straw-necked Ibis heading somewhere

Crimson Rosella stripping a seed head.

Spider Web

Drone view off Parkwood Road

Yellow-tail Black Cockatoos