I love watching the kookaburras in our garden. There are three of them currently that live here and with the colder and wet weather, they can often be seen perched on branches or old tree trunks, intently watching the ground for food sources (worms mainly). Here are some images I took a couple of days…
Pied Currawong
These birds have been making quite a lot of noise recently in our area. Kind of a sad calling sound, calling to one another across the hills, almost echoing. The noise is unmistakeable but not annoying. They watch me as I walk around the garden and often follow me from tree to tree. You can…
Dying signs of Autumn
Although it is winter now we still have some Autumn colours around but not a lot. The last tree to lose its leaves is on view through this bird feeder.
Winter images in our garden
We have a variety of mushrooms popping up everywhere. Mainly tiny ones like the ones below. The larger of the three tiny ones has 3 very tiny yellow bugs on it. I’ll have to go out again with my macro to see if I can pick up what the bugs might be. The other is…
Winter images at home
We have lots of leaves lying around. It’s been too wet to rake them up. We want to use them as mulch in another part of the garden. If we get a couple of dry days with some wind we might get the opportunity, providing that’s on a weekend and not when we’re working. Below…
Images of winter at home
I’ve not been outside much for a few days. We’ve had a lot of rain here and one day was extremely windy and very cold. Doesn’t make for a nice time to wander around the garden or elsewhere. Today I did get out a bit, between showers though and very quickly I discovered a rainbow….
Winter flowers
Now that winter is setting in here in Victoria, Australia, the winter flowers are out in bloom and one recent day we did have sunshine and blue skies. Below are images from our own garden and that of our neighbour’s.
Meeting Mr Roo
I was walking along the conservation track at Lysterfield Park yesterday, enjoying the winter morning sunshine, a break from the rain we’d been having in the previous week. As I neared the end of the track by the gates I was looking around, listening for bird sounds, when I suddenly heard heavy footsteps come to…
Before the sunrise
Thought I’d share with you a few shots taken before the spectacular sunrise I posted yesterday, taken at Kallista here in Victoria, Australia. It felt like the whole world was still asleep and I was the only one there to witness it.
Sunrise at Kallista
I could see it was going to be a beautiful crisp, very fresh morning a couple of days ago so planned to drive up to Kallista, 10 mins away from home, so I could watch the sunset. The grass in the paddocks had that silvery sheen to it, almost frost, but not quite. I was…
Kookaburras at home
On that beautiful day Graham and I went out for a walk and in our garden and down the road we could see Kookaburras in trees. They are lovely birds with a unique sound that is like a clearing of the throat before they begin their famous laughing sound.
Beautiful morning
We are now in the months of winter here in Australia and in my own state of Victoria, it has already gotten particularly cold, and wet. We had a long weekend this past weekend and Graham and I had nothing in particular planned. Just taking each day as it comes. Saturday and Sunday were days…