Big and small and beautiful

Denzils Nature Photo Challenge #13: Butterflies

This is a difficult photo challenge mainly because of choice. I don’t want to leave any butterflies out but if I don’t get tough you’ll be here for far to long. What I have is 1,966 photos in 56 folders, each folder is a different species of butterfly.

What I decided to do is just go through some older photos I have posted over the years, hopefully picking a few of my favourites for you to enjoy.

Australian Gull Butterfly

Small Green-banded Line Blue Butterfly

Common Crow

Blue Triangle Butterfly

Lesser Wanderer Butterfly

Scarlet Jezebel Butterfly

Black Jezebel Butterfly

Caper White Butterfly

Blue Tiger Butterfly

Dark Grass Dart Butterfly

Meadow Argus Butterfly

Common Eggfly Butterfly

Orchard Swallowtail Butterfly

Ringed Xenica Butterfly

Wanderer Butterfly

They are all at it

Ragtag Daily Prompt Friday: Risque

Turn away now if you have sensibilities about those risque actions within our insect world

Around here, Dragonflies are always at it

And the flies………..

Even the car aerial of guests weren’t immune

There are a lot of Tiger Moths. Now I know why

Line-blue Butterflies pretend that nothing is going on

Whereas Orchard Swallowtail Butterflies are quite demonstrative

Find a stick and it’s on

Just have to hang on

Blue Triangle Butterflies like the mirror image position

With Damselflies it seems to be a case of hang on

Walking Squares #6 – Flowers, butterflies and a road block

Becky’s #WalkingSquares

This morning I set off to walk down the road my road runs off. Sunday is good as there won’t be much traffic especially gravel truck and logging trucks plus folk going to and from town. I saw a few dark clouds gathering. I hoped it wasn’t going to rain as I intended walking as far as I could. There are a lot of photos, sorry, so I guess we better walk this way.

Looking down the road as I leave the gate, seeing the dark clouds of an overcast day. Undaunted I still head off

Of course a walk to the end of the road would require a few stops. These yellow native flowers grow out the front of my neighbours. Tiny about 10mm in diameter so how small is the grasshopper on the flower at the rear

These are popping up everywhere at the moment. I have some that appeared in my gardens

Have to love purple grass seed heads. A breeze blew up just I was about to take a photo. They just wavered about for ages and I have a fair bit of walking to do.

The tree on the left is the streets guardian tree. A huge Red Ironbark. The fence beside it is about four feet tall so you can do the calculations, I have walking to do.

Before leaving the street, I say goodbye to the old tree man, who keeps an eye on things. His weather worn face, tired eyes and bulbous nose with that crooked mouth has seen many things.

Not far around the corner is a cattle grid. The only tricky part of the walk. Look right to the end of what you can see. Yep, that’s where we’re heading

Here is the road block. An Eastern Grey Kangaroo. It’s a young male surveying the scene. He didn’t seen to care when I kept walking and he kept hopping up the road towards me. I stopped to see what he would do. I took a few steps scuffing my feet on the gravel and he looked up as though he had seen me for the first time, and he sped off into the bush. Last thing I needed today was to be attacked by a Kangaroo because we got too close to one another.

The floods and rain have caused a couple of deep erosion gullies. The old fence posts look like they didn’t stand a chance. The grass in the foreground is the edge of what’s left of the road.

An attempt at erosion repair work mainly to stop the head-cut eroding back and collapsing the road.

Well we’re at the top of the hill and I don’t want to go further so looking back at the road back home

The Spotted Gums are losing their bark, making shapes. You can see the dimples on the trunk that give it it’s name.

Looks like someone missed recycle bin day.

All the time I have been walking, I have heard a few birds, about six or seven different birds, have seen a couple of Noisy Friarbirds fly across the road but not any others. We are not far now. The turn-off to my road is at the end of the photo

I am not far from the turn-off and suddenly there are lots of butterflies. The sun has come out and it is warm. A Wanderer on a Lantana flower

A new butterfly for me. An Imperial Hairstreak. This one was so intent on grooming, it paid me no mind. If I was that butterfly, I wouldn’t mind the Imperial part but hairstreak. That’s almost as bad as a Dingy Ringlet

Almost to the front gate and there were a number of Australian Painted Lady Butterflies hovering and landing on the ground as they seem to like doing

OK have you got this far with a bit of a song to get through? Are you a bit weary after the hills? Well that was a four kilometre round trip almost exactly to the metre.

Cee’s FOTD

I think found some apricot colours

Terri’s Sunday Stills Monthly Colour Challenge: All About #Apricot

I wasn’t sure if I had any apricot images. They all seem either too orange or yellow to me. Of course they are mainly flowers.

Pentas flowers bring lots into the garden

Ragtag Daily Prompt Wednesday: Abundance

I love how Pentas flowers always attract insects to the garden and sometimes the occasional small honeyeaters will stop for a snack.

Blue-banded Bees always seem to be buzzing about

Hornets get a bit of sustenance as well

The wonderfully named Teddy Bear Bee pops in from time to time

At the moment there are a lot of Lemon Migrant Butterflies in the garden

Always have the many varieties of Line-Blue Butterflies around

Most years Caper White Butterflies stop in on their migration

Australian Painted Lady Butterflies look striking on the Pentas flowers

One of my favourite butterflies, Blue Triangles are always welcome

Scarlet Jezebels love the sweet flavour

Orchard Swallowtails are the largest butterflies in the garden. Their wings are always moving to keep balance

I don’t have many visitors to the pink Pentas flowers. A couple of days ago I noticed one of the bushes moving and saw a Fuscous Honeyeater feeding

Eastern Spinebills like to drop in often

Also for Cee’s FOTD

Something is bugging me

Terri’s Sunday Stills: What’s #Bugging you?

I’ll tell you whats bugging me……….

Dragonflies

Flies

Butterflies

Bees

Ants

Praying Mantis

Spiders

Just bugs

Whites of the sky

Life in Colour for June: White or Silver

So far I have shown some white flowers, white fungi and some bits of silver. Now let see what whites I have that may not be all white but predominantly white which should fit the bill.

White-headed Pigeon

White-throated Honeyeater

White-bellied Sea Eagle

Silver Gull

Caper White Butterfly

Cabbage White Butterfly

Pied Butcherbird

Magpie Geese

Sacred Ibis and Royal Spoonbill

Sacred Ibis

Australian Gull Butterfly

I see spots

The Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #148: Spots and Dots

A moth with blue spots

Leopard Lily flower

Common Crow Butterfly

Spotted Pardalote

Art from La Biennale di Venezia a few years ago

Spotted Wyandotte chook

Foxglove flower

Xenica Butterfly

Lights in a tree

Art work in the Grand Hyatt Hotel Seoul

I told my mate that I had spots before my eyes.
He said “Did you see a Doctor?”
I replied “No – just spots”

Bright Squares #29

Becky’s Bright Squares

AS we near the end of this months Bright Squares I thought I would add a bit of the brightness around my place that makes me happy and I hope it does for you. Thanks Becky for a wonderful theme for the April Squares

Australian Painter Lady Butterfly
Common Crow Butterfly
Caper White Butterfly
Meadow Argus Butterfly
Common Eggfly Butterfly
Common Aeroplane Butterfly
Blue Triangle Butterfly
Scarlet Jezebel Butterfly
Wanderer Butterfly
Orchard Swallowtail Butterfly
Black Jezebel Butterfly