Saturday, 3 April 2021

March 2021

 Another quiet month about home. 



Feeding Red-browed Finch

Welcome Swallows and Tree Martins enjoying the morning sun

Superb Fairy Wren pair

Local Little Pied Cormorant

Grey Fantail

Trickling over the rock

Inquisitive Galah at home

Sturt Desert Pea (before the cockies shredded it)

Local mob of Kangaroos

Dew in the early morning sun

Kookaburra looking for a meal

Silvereyes in the wattle

Autumn is happening

It brings out the Fungi


On March 31, the Royal Australian Air Force celebrated its centenary with a flypast of over Canberra by RAAF aircraft past and present, finishing with an aerobatic display by the Roulettes  I sat in my boat on Lake Burley Griffin with camera to catch the action.  I also caught a couple of small Redfin.





























Friday, 5 March 2021

February 2021

 Another quiet month - Hoping March brings some interest.



Local Swamp Wallaby


One of a pair of Sacred Kingfishers have shown up again.

Mr Tawny Frogmouth at his new roost

Little Pied Cormorant - there are a lot of yabbies and small Redfin perch in the creek.

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I came across a radio controlled model sailboat regatta one weekend.  A number of the competitors were packing up wen I arrived, but it was still interesting to photograph.






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Crimson Rosella hanging down for food.


Apples hanging over the fence


Three Tawny Frogmouths hanging out


Cunningham's Skink sunning


We have Icon Water doing a clean of the suburbs sewerage system


Pied Currawong


Crimson Rosella in flight (and looking a little scruffy).

The creek's resident Little Pied Cormorant

Galah waiting for seed.


Wednesday, 3 February 2021

January 2021

 Still around the ACT other than a day trip up to Kiandra to see if any wildflowers were about.


Young Crimson Rosella

Esme could smell rabbit - rabbit knew just where Esme was.


Water tanks against a sunrise sky

Young Eastern Spinebill

Swamp Wallaby

Grandson doing a Rex Hunt



Hay rolls in raincoats

Granite and snow gums

Sawyer's Hut after the bushfires.

Went for a wander behind Sawyer's Hut and found a lot of wildflowers








Remains of the historic Kiandra Hotel.

The next series are from around Delaney's Hut - also destroyed in last year's bushfires.






Redfin Perch from Lake Burley Griffin

A Blue-tongue Lizard has taken up residence at #33


Eastern Grey Kangaroos and tall grass



Drone view of part of Whitlam development


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