Amazing what you can learn from just observing nature. Early March I saw a lot of ants at the top of a young acacia tree and I thought the tree was in trouble, seeping sugary sap. This is at Birdsland Reserve by the big lake. A week later I discovered the ants were covering a…
Category: Butterflies
Butterflies in the garden
I’ve been delighting in adding to our garden, plants and flowers I knew that butterflies would love. I watched an episode of Australian Gardening some months ago that spoke of developing our gardens for butterflies. I got inspired to do similar in our garden and now watch eagerly for the butterflies. I’ve even begun a…
Butterflies at Cranbourne Botanical Gardens
While exploring these gardens I saw a beautiful butterfly I’d not seen before, so welcome any comments about what the name might be 🙂 I thought it was gorgeous and beautifully marked and coloured, don’t you? And then I saw this Painted Lady which is a fairly common species here in Australia but still lovely…
The Butterfly Garden
Anyone who knows me personally knows that when I’m enthused about something I tend to put my all into it and get excited about my latest project. And so this one is no different. I was watching Gardening Australia on Ch2 last Saturday night and one of the segments was about a lady who is…
The Butterfly House
One of my favourite places to visit is The Butterfly House. It is a hot house to visit and I was conscious that I shouldn’t change my lenses when inside the house. So I did a full circuit with my short lens (18-55mm) and then went out, changed lenses and went back in with the…
The Damaged Butterfly
It was very windy yesterday but fine and we took advantage of it and spent some time in the garden. Hubby found this butterfly in the garden with a damaged wing. We rescued it off the ground and put it in a bush. But not before it spent some time with us – it seemed…
Common Brown Butterfly
When we went out on Australia Day to buy new sheep for our property, I had to sit and wait in the car while Graham went to pick out the sheep. Trying to get down a stoney driveway and into an uneven paddock on crutches isn’t my idea of fun – I want to heal,…
Tiny moth for a tiny flower
Have you seen those tiny little white daisies that spring up in the lawn and garden at this time of year (Spring)? I love the challenge of photographing them. On this particular day I was given extra value with an equally tiny moth upon the flower.
A butterfly in silhouette
Day 66 of my 365 day challenge. What to shoot today? I hadn’t been outside much and I don’t like to take pictures inside if I can help it – much prefer the outdoors. The light was beginning to fade, it was very late afternoon. I spied a butterfly in the scrub behind our house…
Butterflies at the park
This butterfly had the sunlight shining on it giving a look as though its wings were very fragile, almost like a tissue. And you can see they’re looking ragged as though torn or worn away.
Butterflies at the park
Another butterfly – saw a real lot of these flying around everywhere, alighting on trees, fences, flowers, the ground and sometimes flying in twos – I was never quick enough to get a shot of two together.
Butterflies at the park
Back at one of my favourite places to walk, Lysterfield Lake Park is brimming with butterflies and dragonflies at this time of the year. This is one of the butterflies I saw when walking last weekend. It had beautiful markings under its wings whereas most seem to be rather pale in comparison I have a…