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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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Spring rain

White faced heron

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Past-it parsley showing off its new spiky leaves

Mist rising over Berowra Valley National Park

A hoarder’s confessions

From bean thieves

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Australian magpie with hairy caterpillar

The light blue soldier crab, Mictyris longicarpus

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Eat your heart out Georgia O’Keefe

Just part of the flock

Borage: a salad climax community

Surfers floating over the relics of yesterday’s lagoon

Beautiful jerusalem artichoke flowers

Bowerbirds: snacking for solar gain

Today on chicken TV: the makeover show

Reflections of a ground predator

From bean thieves

Andy mugshot

Apocalypse descending over Berowra

From a sentimental chicken remembers the good old days

Clydeside in late autumn. Ideal habitat for kale.

A fossil in the garden

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

The papparazzi invade the marsupial Big Brother House

Spring rain

A breba crop

Spring rain

Red liquidamba leaves

Red wattlebird in our Japanese maple

Dianella caerulea really really closeup

A fossil in the garden

Eye to eye with Snakey the diamond python

Tumeric flower

Still morning on Two Mile Lake

Child’s eye view

April sunrise

Summer sunset

First artichoke of the year

Sprinter (not yet sprummer)

Eastern water dragon enjoying the attentions of the papperazzi.

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

A hoarder’s confessions

Silhouette of a yellow tailed black cockatoo

Bee-ing positive

Brush turkey chick on the alert

A fossil in the garden

Pelicans on the Wyong River in late afternoon

The liquidambar feast

From labour and wait

Orchestral manoeuvres in the dark

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