Various aspect of the local environment.
Yesterday (20 September) I went for a stroll in a relatively new Nature Reserve in the ACT. It is called Kama and contains some really nice grassy-box woodland running down to the Molonglo Valley. There are some really magnificent trees in there - which will be the subject of a later post I hope - and also a group of Brown Treecreepers. I rather like this shot of a Treecreeper creeping up a tree!
There were also a few dragonflies about - very active and far too busy to pause for a portrait - and one attractive (in a rather restrained-palette way) moth.
I will attempt to ID the species later, but for the time being will apologise for the phrase "restrained-palette". It is collateral (linguistic) damage from the Fred Williams show at the National Gallery.
Today was a COG mid-month walk which took us to Narrabundah Hill. It is a hill, but some distance from the suburb of Narrabundah. It used to be the site of a pine forest but that exploded in the January2003 bushfires so is now a regenerating area, surrounded by horse paddocks. We saw quite a few birds but the only one snapped was this Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike.
It is (obviously) black-faced, but is neither a cuckoo, nor a shrike. Aren't taxonomists wonderful?
On the way home - after an excellent en-route hamburger at the Yass Road takeaway in Queanbeyan - I saw this Bearded Dragon sitting in the road so stopped for a snap or two.
The first shot shows the way this species flattens-out as a threat display while the second shows the pleasant colour (refraining from 'painterly' references to tonality) and the detail of its scaliness.
On getting home I wandered up our property to capture the first example of Leucopogon virgatus to grace the block this year.
There were also a few dragonflies about - very active and far too busy to pause for a portrait - and one attractive (in a rather restrained-palette way) moth.
I will attempt to ID the species later, but for the time being will apologise for the phrase "restrained-palette". It is collateral (linguistic) damage from the Fred Williams show at the National Gallery.
Today was a COG mid-month walk which took us to Narrabundah Hill. It is a hill, but some distance from the suburb of Narrabundah. It used to be the site of a pine forest but that exploded in the January2003 bushfires so is now a regenerating area, surrounded by horse paddocks. We saw quite a few birds but the only one snapped was this Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike.
It is (obviously) black-faced, but is neither a cuckoo, nor a shrike. Aren't taxonomists wonderful?
On the way home - after an excellent en-route hamburger at the Yass Road takeaway in Queanbeyan - I saw this Bearded Dragon sitting in the road so stopped for a snap or two.
The first shot shows the way this species flattens-out as a threat display while the second shows the pleasant colour (refraining from 'painterly' references to tonality) and the detail of its scaliness.
On getting home I wandered up our property to capture the first example of Leucopogon virgatus to grace the block this year.
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