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Here we are at what I saw in March.  There has been a couple of photo challenges I have done in March so some of those photos aren’t in this lot. It is another big photo post. There are a few photos of snakes, spiders and other insects but try to have a peek through your fingers when they come along. Nature is full of wondrous colours and shapes.

Of course there are flowers and birds plus my March obsession of spiders webs. So I do recommend getting your favourite drink and perhaps a snack as you settle in and have a look at my month of March.

OK, I’ll get the insects out of the way first for all those who have told me of their dislike of bugs. You will be rewarded with seeing some lovely little creatures from my world.

I’ll ease you into the insect section with a lovely Wanderer Butterfly

Remember My Quest to photograph a Blue Triangle Butterfly. Well now it seems they are waiting for me. This Blue Triangle was on the road when we went for a walk.

There were a lot of Easten Common Brown Butterflies around this year.

A long range photo of a lovely bug with orange feelers. Some close ups are coming next.

When you are a small insect you really have to hang on if there is a breeze about.

I look fearsome but I’m not.

A small Fly with red eyes came to sit with us while we had a drink on the deck. Spiders next

Remember the spiders web from my March Squares. Lots of people were glad the spider wasn’t in the web. Well here he is, all 5 or 6mm of him. Better watch out if you are a mossie.

Some spiders hang up side down on their web.

First prize in the messiest web. I love the droplets on the web from the morning mist.

As part of my obsession, I have been playing with my photo editor. Do you like this one?

A bit of respite now. A Lemon Migrant Butterfly on Lantana

While on a day trip, we stopped at an art gallery which wasn’t all that great. Outside life was far more interesting. I found a Praying Mantis eating a Bee in the flower bed.

This poor little bloke couldn’t get his wings folded

Photographing some grass seeds I was photo-bombed by a Dragonfly

I don’t think it was this lovely red Dragonfly. I love the shadow

My favourite Australian Native Bees are the Blue-banded Bees which are in other posts this month. This Australian Native Bee has the best named of all. Let me introduce you to the Teddy Bear Bee. Do you know of a cuter bee name?

When we look out of the kitchen window at my besties place, neatly framed in the arch, waiting for his breakfast too is PJ the horse. He knows where to stand to get attention doesn’t he?

The grass seed photo I talked about earlier.

An Australian Native flower that grows at my place. This one was on the side of the road.

My besties Roses are lovely this year. The camera couldn’t capture the wonderful red colour though

A great year for Bromiliad flowering too.

This plant is called Ink Weed. Apparently you can make ink from the plant. Not sure which part but they did in the early days of the colony.

I have often shown the Blue Ginger flowers up close, sometimes with a Blue-banded Bee in them. This is one patch of them in my besties garden.

I love Cats Whiskers flowers. They are just opening in March.

Aren’t the colours of the garden striking?

Remember the many posts about the Dancing Lady Hibiscus. Here is a shot of the many flowers that came out this year taken from the verandah where we sometimes have breakfast, the most flowers we have ever seen. The Hibiscus bush trails up the Poinciana tree trunks. How many Dancing Ladies can you count?

A tiny Eco-system in a tree trunk on the side of the road.

The fence post was covered on one side with these fungi.

A lone fungus on the side of the hill.

I love this shot from under the Poinciana tree at the small fungi high up.

The Common Garden Skink, I call a Copper Headed Skink, doing its best not to look at the camera before it scurried away.

Apart from flowers, fungi, birds, the Poinciana also has a non-venomous Green Tree Snake who lives in the hollows. These Pythons are harmless

Beautiful little snake. Aren’t the colours and markings lovely?

I wondered why the chook was hesitant about coming out of her yard. When she did she would run across the yard to a sheltered spot. She never came into the front garden. Then I spied why. The Square-tailed Kites have built a nest in a eucalypt in the front yard

The Black Kites are everywhere near the Lismore Waste Center
On  a drive to Caniaba, while waiting for some dairy cows to cross the road, I saw two Wedged-tailed Eagles wheeling about high in the sky.

The Little Wattlebird enjoyed singing and searching for food in the Poinciana tree

He saw me with my camera while up side down looking for grubs.

The tiny Buff-rumped Thornbill defied gravity looking for a snack in the Poinciana tree  too

A Golden Whistler was in fine voice in the Poinciana tree.

Another singer in the garden is the Varied Triller

A flock of Silvereyes called in to have a feed

A Black-faced Cuckoo Shrike strained to see if it was food or just the wind blowing leaves about

On a recent walk, I spied a young Black-faced Cuckoo Shrike harassing its parent for food

“Where is everyone?” the Pied Cormorant seemed to say as it looked around before diving for fish once more in the Brunswick River.

Meanwhile on the beach at Brunswick Heads, a Welcome Swallow found a convenient stick to perch

Remember the Bromiliad Flower? The Lewins Honeyeater has been sticking his head into the flower to get a snack. The flower also rewarded him but giving him a pollen crown.

I love Wonga Pigeons. This pair were sitting in the garden preening and looking about.

The Grey Fantail looked like he was walking on stilts.

A great moment in March was seeing the Green Catbird feeding her young. Seconds later another young one came along which disturbed the scene and soon all three had flown off.

I can’t do a post with birds and not included Bobbin, the cute resident Northern Yellow Robin. I recently discovered that I have been calling the Yellow Robins around here and at my besties, Eastern Yellow Robins. There are two distinct races of Yellow Robins. So from now on Bobbin and his friends are Northern Yellow Robins.

Thanks for getting this far. I even made a second coffee to keep me going to the end.

The afternoon colour and trees looked so lovely

The Full Moon earlier in March looked great with the clouds drifting by.

I like to put the captions before the photo. What do you do? Do you prefer the captions before or after a photo? Let me know what you think?

Did you have a favourite photo from March?