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Daily Archives: June 27, 2014

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Past-it parsley showing off its new spiky leaves

A hoarder’s confessions

Eastern water dragon enjoying the attentions of the papperazzi.

A fossil in the garden

Spring rain

A hoarder’s confessions

Today on chicken TV: the makeover show

A breba crop

Spring rain

Eye to eye with Snakey the diamond python

Winners and weeds

Silhouette of a yellow tailed black cockatoo

A fossil in the garden

Just part of the flock

The light blue soldier crab, Mictyris longicarpus

Dianella caerulea really really closeup

Reflections of a ground predator

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

Borage: a salad climax community

Bee-ing positive

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

White faced heron

Orchestral manoeuvres in the dark

From labour and wait

April sunrise

Pomegranate star and blue sky

From bean thieves

The papparazzi invade the marsupial Big Brother House

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

From bean thieves

And this time a squid.

Bowerbirds: snacking for solar gain

Mist rising over Berowra Valley National Park

Apocalypse descending over Berowra

Huge sandstone cliffs at Wentworth Falls

Still morning on Two Mile Lake

Sprinter (not yet sprummer)

The Bronze Orange Bug: a worthy adversary

Red wattlebird in our Japanese maple

Summer sunset

First artichoke of the year

A fossil in the garden

Child’s eye view

Pelicans on the Wyong River in late afternoon

Tumeric flower

Clydeside in late autumn. Ideal habitat for kale.

Brush turkey chick on the alert

Andy mugshot

Death, hot compost and chicken addictions

Red liquidamba leaves

Spring rain

Australian magpie with hairy caterpillar

The liquidambar feast

Eat your heart out Georgia O’Keefe

Beautiful jerusalem artichoke flowers

Surfers floating over the relics of yesterday’s lagoon

From a sentimental chicken remembers the good old days

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