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Daily Archives: February 28, 2014

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February 28, 2014

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Labour and wait

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Huge sandstone cliffs at Wentworth Falls

Clydeside in late autumn. Ideal habitat for kale.

From bean thieves

April sunrise

Brush turkey chick on the alert

Eye to eye with Snakey the diamond python

The liquidambar feast

A fossil in the garden

A fossil in the garden

Red wattlebird in our Japanese maple

Red liquidamba leaves

Today on chicken TV: the makeover show

Dianella caerulea really really closeup

Just part of the flock

Reflections of a ground predator

White faced heron

Surfers floating over the relics of yesterday’s lagoon

Australian magpie with hairy caterpillar

Sprinter (not yet sprummer)

Spring rain

Eat your heart out Georgia O’Keefe

Summer sunset

Dawn breaks over the barrier between Bombah Broadwater and the open sea

The light blue soldier crab, Mictyris longicarpus

Butterfly visiting a shallot flower – is it a cabbage white?

From labour and wait

Pomegranate star and blue sky

Silhouette of a yellow tailed black cockatoo

A hoarder’s confessions

Pelicans on the Wyong River in late afternoon

The Bronze Orange Bug: a worthy adversary

Past-it parsley showing off its new spiky leaves

July sunset – sorry for knocking you off your perch for this one Snowball

A hoarder’s confessions

Spring rain

A fossil in the garden

The papparazzi invade the marsupial Big Brother House

A breba crop

Bee-ing positive

Tumeric flower

And this time a squid.

Bowerbirds: snacking for solar gain

Spring rain

Eastern water dragon enjoying the attentions of the papperazzi.

Borage: a salad climax community

Winners and weeds

Mist rising over Berowra Valley National Park

First artichoke of the year

Still morning on Two Mile Lake

From bean thieves

Orchestral manoeuvres in the dark

Death, hot compost and chicken addictions

Beautiful jerusalem artichoke flowers

Andy mugshot

From a sentimental chicken remembers the good old days

Child’s eye view

Apocalypse descending over Berowra

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