Thank you

Two Galahs facing right, white cap, pink body and grey wings. Standing on Grass in the park.

A couple of galahs out in the park looking for seeds, a bit unfocused as they were exceeding my lens capacity.
They were a happy relaxed couple.
Townsville Australia.
#BirdOfTheDay
Alternate
#Grass
#Birds
#AustralianBirds

Excellent

A tiny spider, looking at the underside, facing down, it has a creamy brown abdomen with cream colour on the sides and a brown vase shaped mark on a cream background, light coloured legs. The background is a green and red vine, with a brown brick wall behind that.

The spider is moving and looking left, rotating it’s bodly around and exposing its yellow/cream back colour

And here is the topside, it’s grey front half with the splashes of yellow as a stripe on a matching dark border.

I spotted a little friend in front of my Ceylon spinach vine, another tiny orb weaver spider, Neoscona theisi.
When I need meditation I spend time looking for critters, birds and plants.
#spiders
#orbweavers
#Photography

A straw necked ibis facing to the right, the foreground is green grass, the background is road. It has a featherless black head with a long downward curving bill, a white mane around its neck and a white underbelly. The wings are dark on top merging into mottled dark brown, with sun in the right spot they reflect back many bright colours, it has long legs, it is quite happy in swamps.

A straw necked Ibis patrolling the lawn, they aerate the soil nicely.
North Queensland

#birdoftheday
#blackheads

I was guided by the admin counter staff, at the same practice as to who would be a good fit for me, over the phone.
They were spot on.

Late last year I started trying to find an new GP, similar circumstances, I’m still not comfortable but the new doctor is very bright and pleasant, trained in Pakistan, the United Kingdom and Ireland in large prestigious hospitals.
You can’t make up decades of seeing the same person easily though.

A small spider, looking a bit like a cross spider, facing left and down, greenish and cream banded legs, a light grey head, the abdomen is green underneath and cream above with dark brown blotches. The background is a green shrub, a red berry upper left. It is at the sec of a massy looking tent shaped web.

I just needed a mental health break, I had seen this little one earlier in the day, the hot sun ready to start going down behind me
Cyrtophora mollucensis.
A tent web spider, the web is not geometrical and tent shaped.
Townsville, north Queensland
#spiders
#Australianwildlife
#photography

Some straight to aged care, it’s a disaster.

Sightings in North Queensland are increasing, which is unsettling.

Great colour and light in those pictures, a random bee is always a bonus.

Tim Flannery wrote a book called “throw em way leg”
Pidgin for going for a walk traveling, as he was discovering and cataloging unknown or though extinct creatures the locals and guides followed and exploited them to actual extinction, I hope the location of this creature is a secret but unlikely.

Thank you, the Melicope tree was astounding for all sorts of wildlife.
I have to find another one near my new place.

Sahul Sunbird, not honeyeater, today has been a challenge.

Facing to the left a small brown honeyeater on a cluster of Melicope elleryana pink flowers

A sahul sunbird facing to the left, the front half of its head visible out of its hanging grass and leaf litter nest. The bird has a brown cap, a dark eye with a dark stripe, a fine thin curved beak and a yellow throat.

A brown honey eater on a cluster of Melicope elleryana flowers and a Sahul honeyeater peering out of a nest.
#birdoftheday
#sideview
#birds
#Australianbirds
Townsville North Queensland

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Aged care and NDIS reform

I have worked with nurses from the U.S. in Australia, quite some time ago, the health care insurance system was a big topic, nursing is not just a job.
Dropping the professional status and considering the future of their family in a country disintegrating, getting out seems the sensible option.

I have neighbours from Sri Lanka, excellent people, I’m learning about their wildlife.
Australia likes to claim dangerous animals but their country is lethal, and people and wildlife all live close together.

That’s a great looking kingfisher, great pictures.

My community herb garden, permitted by the body corporate. I do have an integrated pest management system with at least one native plant. It faces south, the ideal in Australia, less burning sun.

A spotted leaf bottle, there is only a couple, I can share some leaves with them

Phallus rubicundus, a small one, it’s been a damp year, I expect a few more varieties to pop up.

I dianella, flax Lilly, a native plant great for attracting all sorts of insects, like this bee, no native bees spotted yet, I use the drying leaves as garden string.

I had to take bins out, as usual I spotted bugs in my postage stamp garden, tiny and in a borrowed space it still provides things of interest
#gardens
#photography

I like it a lot, it’s great to have it around.

A tiny moth, 2cm, the background is a shiny white, with water droplets, the moth has white wings, with brown lines and bands, and chequered edges. The leading edge of the wings has dark spots.

Moth of the night, a tiny one in the sink.
Two spotted China mark,
Parapoynx dentizonalis
Townsville, North Queensland
#moths
#entemology
#Australianwildlife

Habitat loss all over the world, every single space is precious.

Thank you

Two pacific black ducks swimming away, the water reflects the green grass on the bank along with a red bougainvillea. The birds have brown grey bodies with lighter grey neck and head with black capped heads and a black stripe across the eyes, the beaks are a bluish black.

Two Pacific black ducks heading upstream, there is a red Bougainvillea up on the right back causing a red reflection on the water.
North Queensland
#birdoftheday
#waterbirds
#birds
#Australianbirds
#photigraphy

It is appalling that there is a health care worker? taking pictures of such incredibly sensitive things.
And then sharing them to a person who also has no sense of respect or decency, and a lack of knowledge.

Torresian imperial pigeon is the proper name, not dove, I’m making errors tonight and can’t face another edit.

I never get tired of hearing and seeing them around.

Two medium sized Torresian Imperial Doves, the bird on the left is facing left, on the right the bird is facing to the rear. They have black eyes and are white, apart from the tail and wing edges which are black. The background is blue sky. The birds are on branches with no leaves.

A pair of Torresian imperial doves, they migrate between New Guinea and Australia to nest.
Their black and white colouring is distinctive stationary or in flight.
#birdoftheday
#pigeons&doves
#birds🪶
#AustralianBirds