Currently the resident Butcherbird family has increased to four and the parents are kept very busy caring for their two young chicks. The adults have been showing them places where there is shade and food (our front door step area) and water holes (buckets we have put out during this heatwave.) When we are homeContinue reading “Grey Butcherbirds’ behaviour in the Heatwave”
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Hot day presents unexpected memories.
What a roller coaster of a ride my memories have taken me today. I decided this morning that I would tackle our filing cabinet and sort through the files hidden there. Hours later and I have been laughing at wedding dress catalogues from the 1980s and crying at letters my dad wrote to us whileContinue reading “Hot day presents unexpected memories.”
Summer Beauty
One of my favourite insects this time of the year must be the Blue Banded Bee. A native of these parts, it is always busy as… and so hard to photograph as it hardly stays on or near a flower long enough to capture a pic…much faster than a regular honey bee.
Sharon Greenaway 