My 2017 memories

January

Fly fishing the Eucumbene River with my son.

February

Rainbow Lorikeet working through the Kings Park Bottlebrush

March

Sunset on our arrival in Darwin - we took a week to drive up and a week to drive back.

April

Molly on Lake Hart SA.  

Sadly she passed away a few days later from Leptospirosis that she contracted in Darwin.

May

Galah drinking at Goondoowindi.

June

Memories of driving the tractor pulling something like this.

July

Esme and Pepper joined the household.

August

Looking for wombats in the snow.  Found wallabies instead.

September

Male Superb Blue Wren staking out his territory.

October

Ten days on a Murray River houseboat - watching the river go by.

November

This year's Tawny Frogmouth chicks.

December

Very early one morning looking for Perseid meteor shower.

December 2017

Around Canberra this month

Ginninderra Creek in semi flood

We had a lot of rain early in December which raised the creek levels for a few days.

Hovering Willie Wagtail

#33 Rose bush

Drone's eye view of our front garden

Little Pied Cormorant spread out to dry.

Molonglo Valley foot bridge

Drone's eye view of the Molonglo and bridge

Rainbow Lorikeet after the nectar

Looking for Perseid meteor shower

Boobook Owl

Belconnen by drone

Sunset above Latham

Pelicans on the pond

West Belconnen pond by drone

Mist rising from the creek

Drone's eye view of the creek and footbridge

Sunset

Welcome swallows

Boer War Horseman

Boer War horseman

Drone view of the Boer War Memorial

Working on selecting my memories of 2017 - this is going to be hard :) there are about 2700 photos to sort through.

November 2017

Bit of a mixed bag this month.  Morning dog walks, day trips, fishing on Lake Burley Griffin.

Lavender glowing in the morning sun

 An afternoon drive up to Bull's Head, then down the Bendora Road to the Cotter River.  Played around a bit with ND filters to 'stream' the water rather than 'freeze' the action.

Cotter River

Drone view of the Cotter River

Later afternoon over Uriarra farmland

Sacred Kingfisher

Kingston Foreshore from over the lake

Mrs Frogmouth in the classic dead branch pose

Junior Frogmouths - fledged during the month

Thornbill contemplating the dogs

Noisy Friarbird

Mowing Gang at Umbagog Park

Breakfast (on toast)

Christmas Cactus

Welcome Swallow fledglings

Peewee Fledgling

Eastern Grey watching the dogs

Red-brow Finch

Drone above Springbank Island

Recruit Seadog Esme watching her bone (RS Pepper has acquisitioned it)

We did a day trip down to Gundagai, through Tumut and back through Kiandra.  I had memories of Paterson's Curse being a sea of purple, but it seems as though the farmers now have a better control over it and there were only isolated plants.  We were also too early for the alpine wildflowers, although many of the shrubs were in flower.  The brumbies feeding on Long Plain attracted a number passing of cars.  We stopped at Yens Bay on Lake Eucumbene for lunch and the dogs found RABBITS!!

Brumbies on Long Plain

Yens Bay - Lake Eucumbene

Sunset by drone from National Rock Garden

Superb Blue Wren preening

Stepping stones awash