Special Spot

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The Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #78: Special Spot Shots

A special spot on my place is the waterhole.

This was in October 2018 in the middle of this three year drought. This was the lowest water level I had ever seen.
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Then in November there was rain on one day which put water into the waterholewaterhole_named_home_oct 2018
In August 2019 the water level plunged even further leaving a small puddle.190816_blog_challenge_yellow_waterhole

November 2019 another day of rain put a small amount water back into the waterhole
waterhole_named_home_jackadgery_oct 2019
I guess you want to know why this is a special spot?
When the water level is full, which used to be most of the time, life abounds from the moss and vines on the treesmoss_vine_waterhole_named_home_oct 2018
to the birds who rely on the water hole like the White-throated Honeyeaters190829_blog_challenge_reflections_white-throated_honeyeater_waterhole_jackadgery
Fuscous Honeyeatersfuscous_honeyeaters_wet_waterhole_named_home_jackadgery_august 2019
Red-browed Firetail Finchesred_browed_firetail_finch_drinking_waterhole_named_home_jackadgery_august 2019
They come in large numbers and enjoy the water hole together, Fuscous and Yellow-faced Honeyeaters181010_blog challenge_pool_pond_yellow faced honeyeater_fuscous honeyeaters
A Scarlet Honeyeater Keeps an eye on mescarlet honeyeater_home_named_sept 2014

I haven’t been down there when any animals have come to drink. My clomping through the bush or the sound of Old Smokey the farm ute alerts them and off they go. I have found fish in the water and there has been signs of Crayfish. The water usually has a variety of insects.

Always a Dragonfly or two flitting about
dragonfly_named_home_oct-2016

170315_dragonfly blog_blue on stick
Water Striders make interesting shadowswalking on water

Hope you liked a view of the Special Spot on my place

27 thoughts on “Special Spot”

  3. Wonderfully evocative photos. What a beautiful spot! Exactly the kind of place where I would shrug off my backpack and settle down for an hour or so sitting still, waiting for the birds to come back, and nature to settle back into its normal rhythm

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  5. A life giving special spot, Brian! A place to sit and contemplate life while it happens. Hopefully you will be back there soon, and bird life, insects, moss and vines will return. ♥

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      2. I haven’t been able to go down there as I have hurt my back. The tracks are blocked with fallen trees so I can’t even drive there

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