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Once mighty (now on a stick)

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John’s Cellpic Sunday

This Autumn the Golden Orb Weavers had huge golden webs all through the garden and bush, Once the web is no longer in use, I take them down when they are where they were on the garden paths.
The very sticky golden web remains. I put this in a tree and the birds will take some for nest building

The web certainly is a Golden Thread

and for the traditionalists, the Pete Seeger original

Up there (orange stripes)

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Hammads Weekend Sky #127

One morning a few weeks ago the sky looked like it had a bit of promise, so I wandered down to the best spot I have for sunrises. It looked like being a dud but then there seemed to be a change in the air.
I am glad I stayed as the sky was phenomenal for a few short minutes. Enjoy what I saw. No playing, that wonderful sky as it was.

I wonder if this marvellous cloud structure is called.

The last of the show as I went back towards the house

Sorry (I have to go)

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Becky’s #SquaresRenew

In the late
afternoon sun
an Australasian Pipit
on the run.
Must go
sorry to say
things to do
cannot stay.
Going forward
is the way
doing stuff
end of day.

Bye

Can’t fight the Runnin’ Blues

Sandpaper (and cauliflory)

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Becky’s #SquaresRenew

Growing straight
from the tree.
Am I burgeoning?
renewing?
Am I emerging?
The real story?
I am cauliflory.

Like all Ficus trees, Sandpaper Fig flowers ‘outside-in’ — its flowers form on the inside of its fruiting body — and can only be fertilised by a particular family of wasp. This fig species bears its fruit on its trunk as well as on its stems: a phenomenon known as “cauliflory”. Fruits ripen from January to June and may be plucked straight off the tree or collected off the ground.

The Sandpaper Figs fruit can be eaten fresh (after removing the furry skin) or dried, or cooked into cakes, pies, biscuits, jellies, jams or sauces, they have a sweet, slightly tart flavour. Mature fruits are edible but are not as palatable as immature fruits.

I couldn’t find a good fig song. As the Sandpaper Fig fruit isn’t all that tasty, I thought Sour Cherry was close enough

REF: https://tuckerbush.com.au/sandpaper-fig-ficus-coronata/

My road (the event of the year)

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Becky’s #SquaresRenew

If I am lucky the road gets reconstructed but mostly it just renewed

The road surface has already been ripped and broken up before a new layer is added, this time. A re-gravelling is once every ten years give or take 🙄

Yep, that’s what they do. Up and down most of the day. This job was done in the rain so I don’t have a photo of the water tuck that follows spreading water to aid compaction.

Simple Ben by John J. Francis. Another track from the surf movie Morning of the Earth.
– Here’s the chorus so sing-along. Belt it out loud, it will make you feel so good

Walkin’ on a dusty road in the countryside at ease
I heard a song driftin’ on the gently blowin’ breeze

Sunshine through the autumn
Sweet snow to the spring
Corn by the water of an old mill stream
And you give me all, you give me all

Small and grey (blue eyes)

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Bird of the week Invitation: LXIII

This week is the often overlooked Peaceful Dove, Geopelia striata. They are here all the time so I see Peaceful Doves every day.
Peaceful Doves are found in places similar to mine. That is open dry woodland with a grassy understorey and the edges of rainforest.

Peaceful Doves are found in Asia, south Burma and the Malay peninsula, through Indochina to eastern New Guinea and Australia, where it is widespread in the north west, north and eastern mainland. They have been widely introduced to islands.

They feed on the ground and roost in trees.

They need to drink at least twice a day.
I know, get onto what they sound like. Well this week is a treat for you. One of my videos from my wildlife camera……enjoy

What they can also sound like

REF: http://www.graemechapman.com.au/index.php

“Who was that”

Peaceful Doves are sedentary, though some seasonal changes in distribution occur in the south and flocks may form briefly in some areas.

The numbers fluctuate at my place. One morning I looked out of the kitchen window and saw all these Peaceful doves sitting on the ground under a Fig Tree. I have never seen Peaceful Doves sit still. I actually thought they may either be drunk from eating fermented Figs or at worse, dead.
Luckily they stirred when I went outside as you can see some of the eyes opened to my relief, so I let them sleep it off.

They feed mainly on small seeds of grasses and sedges, and sometimes small insects.

Peaceful Doves place their nests in trees or shrubs, including in garden and street trees. They build a small, flimsy platform of twigs, grasses and roots, which is built by both parents.

Both parents also feed the young, with ‘crop milk’ or small seeds. If you want to know about crop milk

REF: https://www.birdsinbackyards.net/species/Geopelia-striata

My numbers up #19

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Judy’s Numbers Game #20

This weeks number is 141. So let have a look and see what is found.
This is the only 141 I have so I switched to 114 and 411 to gather a few more photos. It is a 141. It has the camera photo ID and is from the camera to WP media files.

My office window is always a source for entertainment. Who watches who?

It was a juvenile Little Friarbird with a punk haircut and very vocal

A castle in Verona

I love Sooty Oystercatchers

Palatial Dijon

Wonderful old tin toy of Mo McCackie the alter ego of Roy Rene, an Australian vaudeville entertainer

A wonderful Hairpin Banksia Banksia spinulosa

A view of Sydney Through a hotel window

I’m glad a selective colour photo was within my parameters so I could include some Crested Terns

There was even a Water water Everywhere #Abstract

An old Which Way in Lismore

One of the #SquareBlue photos. The sky at my place one day

A yellow sunrise with a bird

Our Moon with a halo