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

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

NOVEMBER 2020

 November has been a very quiet month.  No travel, only morning dog walks around Ginninderra Creek, and a couple of mornings fishing - once on Lake Burley Griffin and once on Lake Ginninderra.  I had cataract surgery done on my right eye mid November, and that cut down my driving until the surgeon said I could proceed (with care).  Reviewing the month's photos, there seems to be an inordinate number of Tawny Frogmouth photos.  With two nesting pairs in my walking range, probably not surprising.

Tawny Frogmouth (nest 1) fledged

Flowering Hakea

Tawny Frogmouth (nest 2) sitting

Nest 1 - Dad and younguns

Cool morning on Lake Burley Griffin

Red-browed Finch

Currawongs were in a BIG panic - a flying fox had invaded their territory

Tawny Frogmouth (nest 2)

Black ducks, with a Wood duck leaving

Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo

Nest 2 growing

Cabbage White Butterfly

Raindrops on casuarina needles

Wood Duck in flight

Kangaroo Grass and a pair of Crimson Rosellas

Pipit on a post,  Grass is so tall, they have to land on a post if they are to be seen

Black Duck - one eye on the dogs