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Daily Archives: February 28, 2014

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February 28, 2014

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Red wattlebird in our Japanese maple

Bowerbirds: snacking for solar gain

Just part of the flock

Mist rising over Berowra Valley National Park

Pelicans on the Wyong River in late afternoon

Red liquidamba leaves

Dianella caerulea really really closeup

Spring rain

A fossil in the garden

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

From labour and wait

Past-it parsley showing off its new spiky leaves

The light blue soldier crab, Mictyris longicarpus

From a sentimental chicken remembers the good old days

Today on chicken TV: the makeover show

First artichoke of the year

A breba crop

Child’s eye view

A fossil in the garden

The papparazzi invade the marsupial Big Brother House

The Bronze Orange Bug: a worthy adversary

Australian magpie with hairy caterpillar

Eat your heart out Georgia O’Keefe

Eye to eye with Snakey the diamond python

A hoarder’s confessions

Silhouette of a yellow tailed black cockatoo

Borage: a salad climax community

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

A fossil in the garden

Sprinter (not yet sprummer)

Brush turkey chick on the alert

Andy mugshot

Winners and weeds

Apocalypse descending over Berowra

Reflections of a ground predator

Summer sunset

From bean thieves

Spring rain

April sunrise

Pomegranate star and blue sky

Orchestral manoeuvres in the dark

Huge sandstone cliffs at Wentworth Falls

Clydeside in late autumn. Ideal habitat for kale.

Eastern water dragon enjoying the attentions of the papperazzi.

Death, hot compost and chicken addictions

Surfers floating over the relics of yesterday’s lagoon

And this time a squid.

Beautiful jerusalem artichoke flowers

Spring rain

White faced heron

From bean thieves

The liquidambar feast

A hoarder’s confessions

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

Tumeric flower

Bee-ing positive

Still morning on Two Mile Lake

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