A black and white bird gripping the stem of a Red Hot Poker - a green stem with an orange-red flower.
Through a bedroom window for this one, a New Holland Honeyeater in the much maligned Red Hot Pokers. Yes, an environmental weed in #Tasmania . This year I’ve planted additional natives for the #honeyeaters and, once established & flowering, the Poker will go. #WildOz #Nature #Birding #Wildlife
A Eucalypt tree, with peeling bark with green, brown and yellow hues. Sitting on a branch is a bird - also with green, brown and yellow hues. Directly in front of the bird is a spiders web with water droplets highlighting its shape.
A bit of a dodgy capture through the loungeroom window, on a wet and misty day. A Yellow-throated Honeyeater, endemic to #Tasmania contemplating a spider web in the branches of a eucalyptus, whose trunk has similar hues to the bird. #WildOz #Birds #Nature #Wildlife #SoTas
Common, but rarely-spotted, White-breasted Woodswallows are found across most of Aust, and SE Asia, in small groups along water courses and in coastal mangroves. Related to magpies, butcherbirds & burrawongs rather than swallows, they were first described in 1771 by Linnaeus himself! #birds #WildOz
Top view of a moth with ochre brown forewings that bold white stripes down the. The stripe in the middle is forked towards the base of the wings
The wild weather over the weekend has certainly mixed things up with an influx of different moths into our Perth Hills garden.
This lovely moth is Hednota tenuilineata, a species endemic to Western Australia and a new observation for us.
#teammorh #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
A bright blue bird bath set among green bracken. In the bird bath stands a large Black Currawong, with piercing yellow eyes. It is staring at a second Black Currawong that is on the ground. There’s only room for one of them in the bird bath.
Another taken through the kitchen window - our #Tasmanian Black Currawongs appear to be sorting out who has first rights to the #bird bath (with the winner giving the loser an impressive death stare).
#WildOz #Nature #Birding #SoTas
The green leaves and cones of a Wollemi Pine tree, with a small, mainly green bird sitting on one of the branches.
Our Wollemi Pine (one of the world’s oldest and rarest trees, with under 100 left in the wild) is attracting a lot of attention in the garden. It’s the first time I’ve seen the Silvereyes feeding in there in great numbers, & the female cones are being decimated by #birds. #WildOz #nature #birding
Top view of a moth that has brownish-grey patchy wings. The forewings have been concertinaed to make them very thin as have the hindwings.
Phazaca interrupta - the Plain Roll-moth
A new moth for our Perth Hills garden last night and definitely one of the more unusual ones we’ve seen.
This moth concertinas its wings while at rest, giving it this unusual resting posture.
#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
Sunrise over a tree filled valley with a pinkish peach sunrise showing beneath patchy clouds with a thin layer of mist at the bottom of the valley
Anthela inornata - top view if a large bright yellow moth with a zig zag line across its wings and two darker spots
Pseudanapaea denotata - side view of an orangey pink moth that has long scales at the back of the head and several darker spots in the forewings
Moerarchis clathrata - side view of a moth with a black and orange head, wings that are pearly white with thick black lines randomly across them, and a wing tips that are feathered orange and black
A beautiful sunrise and some spectacular moths… what better way to start a Monday!
Happy #MothMonday!
#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
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Teddy bear bee on basil flowers🧸🌺🐝
#bees #Australia #Sydney #NaturePhotography #AustralianNativeBees #WildOz
Usually this male Powerful Owl doesn't bother with the noises and distractions of an urban roost. As he's been readying a nest hollow and has the female nearby he's become more alert, glaring here at a passing dog. #birds #wildoz
Zomariana doxasticana - small brown moth with four dark markings that partially track the outline of a circle
A Dasygaster sp. - relatively large moth with brown wings that gave a pattern of darker wavy lines
Stegasta variana - new record for our garden- micro moth with forewings that are cream and brown
Oenochroma vinaria - Pink Bellied moth - large moth with reddish brown wings that have a pale yellow line running horizontally and a dark edged white spot on each wing. Wings are slightly blurred as the moth didn’t fully settle
Still very rainy in the Perth Hills but at least 12 species of moth visited our Perth Hills garden last night (along with hordes of flying ants!), including these:
Zomariana doxasticana
Dasygaster sp.
Stegasta variana (NFG)
Oenochroma vinaria
#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
The Pied Currawong dawn chorus... It's beautiful to listen to but how I miss seeing all the tiny birds that used to visit.
#birds #birdwatching #birding #birdphotography #australianbirds #birdsong #WildOz
Side view of a small moth with light brown forewings that gave a pattern of darker and lighter patches
We’ve had a very wet 24hrs (with 62mm in our rain gauge so far) ☔️
Despite the weather one brave moth visited our Perth Hills garden last night, a Eucalyptus Leafroller (I think).
Maybe not the prettiest of moths but certainly the bravest.
#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
Magpie Geese feeling the heat on another very warm Brisbane morning.
#birds #birdwatching #birding #birdphotography #australianbirds #waterfowl #WildOz
Discover the captivating photo essay 'Lordz of Bin Town', in the new edition of Wilderness Journal.
In this story, photographer and skater Mike O'Meally reveals an urban tale of ibises and skaters. Read it at wilderness.org.au/journal-044
#skateboarding #skatephotography #wildoz
A female Powerful Owl watching a couple of Water Dragons having a disagreement in a Brisbane park. #birds #wildoz #brisbane
This pair of Powls have been difficult to find recently, so it was lovely to see them roosting together in a newish spot close to a possible nest tree. Normally this male loses interest quickly, today he had a very intent stare. I think he might be staking something out. #birds #wildoz #brisbane
Two immature male Satin Bowerbirds, one with the blue-black plumage of adult males, and the other looking out from the bower they have constructed with the greenish plumage of younger males.
New South Wales, Australia
#birds #bowerbirds #WildOz #wildlife #nature
Little red flying foxes hanging high in casuarina trees. Mangrove trees at their base, a sole Lagunaria (native hibiscus) in front, power lines and blue sky above.
Here's a view of the flying foxes along the side of Stoney Creek. The colony has expanded to near its limits now without crossing the creek or roads, must be many thousands in there now.
#LakeMacquarie #bats #FlyingFoxes #WildOz
The little red flying fox colony at Stoney Creek, Toronto NSW was very noisy this morning. It seemed like everyone was awake, some flying about, all chattering or screeching. Warm sunny morning?
#LakeMacquarie #bats #FlyingFoxes #WildOz
Top view of a moth with pearly white forewings with striking ochreous brown stripes across them
Myrascia empheres
This lovely moth was a new observation for our Perth Hills garden this March.
There are only 6 recorded observations of this species currently on #inaturalist, which appears to be a species endemic to Western Australia.
#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #nature
A large group of Pied Currawongs arrived in the backyard this morning. Among them was the one on the left which has half of its bill missing but still seems quite healthy, for now. #birdwatching #birding #birdphotography #australianbirds #currawong #WildOz
A large group of Pied Currawongs arrived in the backyard this morning. Among them was the one on the left which has half of its bill missing but still seems quite healthy, for now.
#birdwatching #birding #birdphotography #australianbirds #currawong #WildOz
Saved this lil one from being mashed into the bitumen. Was almost late to dog school, but worth it. #WildOz
Picture of a large spider with a dull grey body and long legs hanging in a web with a blue sky behind her
Trichonephila edulis - the Australian Golden Orbweaver
Came across this beautiful Golden Orbweaver on a bushwalk recently. Her leg span was around 11-12cm; luckily, she'd made her web high above the path!
#ausinverts #wildoz #arachnids #orbweaver #inaturalist
Close up of a single orchid flower which has two teardrop shaped white petals hanging down with a greenish white and red fuzzy looking labellum
It's not too much longer to wait now before our autumn flowering orchids will start making their appearance.
Like the Bunny Orchids (Eriochilus sp.), which generally flower in the Perth Hills between April and June.
#orchids #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist #bloomscrolling
Top view of a moth whose forewings are a rich brown colour, with several wavy transverse white lines edged with multiple black chevrons. Each forewing has two black dots ringed with red in the central area as well as small red flecks and dots across the wings.
Proteuxoa sanguinipuncta - Blood-spotted Noctuid
Our first Blood-spotted Noctuid for this year, seen in our Perth Hills garden in mid-March. The striking red pattern on the forewings makes these moths easily recognisable.
#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
Saw a subadult Cunninghams Skink, Egernia cunninghami (approximately 14 months old) rush at an Australian Magpie that approached the rockery it was on today. That was unexpected. #WildOz
