Category: nature

You will be pleased to know that this month I have been picky in choosing what to put on my April post. This is not a marathon so maybe you won’t need a drink and a snack to get to the end.

Let’s get going then.

It’s just a leaf I found.  I just love the colours.

There is a whole ecosystem on this fungi

Down the hill from from the above fungi, a whole miniature forest was growing.

I love the sunsets and these grass seed heads.

More grass seed heads against the late afternoon sky. The camera knows how to lie as these aren’t very big.

One of my favourite garden flowers – Cats Whiskers

I don’t know the name of this flower. We call it The Pink Thing. Bees love disappearing inside of the bell or where the flower joins the stalk.

The small flowers of the Bangalow Palm are waiting to burst out. The outer casing had fallen off early in the morning and the palm was full of buzzing bees.

Trying to get some bee photos I didn’t realise I have taken photos of little Dwarf Eastern Tree Frogs. I don’t know if they were hunting bees or other insects

I only found these two but I am sure there were many more among the hanging stalks.

The snail was having a good time exploring the leaf

I found an interesting looking Shield Insect walking along the electric fence tape.

The Caterpillar was quite disturbed at my presence as you can see the red warning bits shooting out. It certainly made short work of the small bush lemon tree’s leaves.

Just a bee getting some nectare and pollen from the Singapore Daisy flower.

In the Fan Palm, I saw a black shape.  Now I am sure I will be careful around the palm with Paper Wasps setting up a nest.

I think this is a Lemon Migrant Butterfly among the purple flowers.

I have lots of photos of Brown Ringlets but none taken from the underside. It was almost like a mother of pearl shining in the sunlight.

The Orange Palm Dart flitted around the Pentas flowers.

There is always someone who pokes their tongue out when a photo is being taken.

I seemed to have an obsession in April with spiders webs. The sun glowing gave the web a golden sheen.

This web was damaged by the rain leaving little gems of water on the web.

Some webs were so traditional looking. The tiny spider sat waiting for someone to get snared.

This is a first for me. An Eastern Curlew was walking about the Gulls and Terns.

Some Pelicans had a snooze while others got on with the washing.

This bloke was a bit late but glided in to try and find a spot on the sand bar.

A Lewins Honeyeater was scanning the Fan Palm for something to eat.

The Yellow-faced Honeyeaters loved the bird bath on a warm Autumn day.

After their bird bath, a couple of Red-browed Firetail Finches sat about doing their laundry.

This Red-browed Firetail Finch showed his firetail

A couple of Buff-rumped Thornbills contemplated going into the water

I am sure the Spangled Drongo was ignoring me.

I have been looking for Royal Spoonbills to photograph for ages. I spied a couple in a flooded park in the middle of Ballina. Not in a wetland as I expected but in town with cars whizzing by. A couple of people wondered what I was doing as they went past.

Don’t my orange eyebrows give me a certain something.

I couldn’t not have a post without a photo of everyones favourite Northern Yellow Robin, our little regular garden visitor, Bobbin.

Thanks for stopping by. Did you have a favourite or two?