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Sydney: late August flora and fauna

A large pelican (are they any other size?)balancing comfortably on tree stump by a local lake,  Eggs and Bacon (Heathy Parrot Pea), Grey Spider-flower, Native Lilac (False Sarsparilla), a kookaburra, Heath Fuchsia with a backdrop of Showy Boronia and a rare pink Spider Flower.

Crimson Rosella

The ridiculously good-looking Crimson Rosella - accessorised with gum blossom.

Showy Boronia and July flora and fauna (part II)

Below is the first Boronia of the season: Showy Boronia. It's absolutely everywhere in some parts of the bush at the moment.

Below are more July (mostly!) flora and fauna. From top left: Pine-leaf Geebung (actually I took this photo in February, but only recently found the name for this flower), more wattle currently in bloom, a Phebalium squamulosum type flower out now, a Snow Wreath, Blackeyed Susans, bundled Guinea Flowers, a very large and industrious echidna foraging for food in a park I visited recently, a cobalt blue Dampiera triloba.

Sydney flora and fauna: July

Top left hand corner and down as follows: Acacia longifolia or Sydney Golden Wattle, Slender Rice Flowers (a lot along bush paths but only in one park!), Sweet Wattle, a mum Swamp Wallaby (joey in pouch), Long-leaved Fivecorners, Gingko tree, white duck, and black and white duck.

Sydney Wildflowers - Autumn/ Winter

The many and varied banksia aside, I would have thought the Autumn/ Winter Sydney bush flower scene would be relatively quiet as the days grow shorter and the temperatures drop. However, I have been amazed at the amount and variety of pretty flowers scattered around the heaths and  forested areas here in Sydney at the moment. Below are just some of the Sydney bush flowers now on display:

Clockwise from top left: 1) Red Spider Flower 2) Mountain Devil 3) Clustered Scented Myrtle 4) Mauve Wax Flowers 5) Sunshine Wattle 6) Red Fivecorners and 6) Needlebush

Sydney bush Autumnal flora and Fauna

A few photos of the flora and fauna I've encountered in the bush this month.

From the top left hand side and clockwise: fuchsia heath in full bloom, an eastern water dragon sunbathing on a rock, orange bracket fungi and rainbow bracket fungi decorating a tree stump, abstract designs created by lichen on a rock by the harbour, a handsome lace monitor striding purposefully across a bitumen path, a fit looking laughing kookaburra (actually taken in the city's Hyde Park), and cherry pink tea tree blossoms.

Out and about - March/ April photos

Here are a few photos I've taken on my travels recently:

1) The GPO clock 2) the stylish Art Deco entrance of the State Theatre 3) the decommissioned historic wooden escalator in Wynard train station now preserved and displayed as art: the "Interloop". 4) a handsome moth on the Great North Walk 5) a night jar in the Australian Museum 6) an example of a common mushroom sprouting up everywhere recently - this one from Garigal National Park 7) one of many sandstone faces that adorn the GPO (now Westin Hotel) 8) a rainy day reflection of the palm trees along College Street.  

Portrait of a Young Powerful Owl

It was very nice to meet an adolescent powerful owl the other day. He was very intense. About a year and a half ago, possibly his mother/ father was seen in the very same location. The mother/father powerful owl was head and shoulders bigger than this young owl (maybe 65 centimetres/ 26 inches tall)! Around the same time, I heard a local powerful owl (maybe the mother/father) hooting in the backyard - it was incredibly loud! It sounded like someone yelling "WHOO - HOO!!!" through a megaphone! They are not called "powerful" owls for nothing. 

Three Black Australian Swans

Three Black Australian Swans for this Australia Day 2019. 

The Young Ones

Following on from a pre-Christmas post that detailed the niceness of running into two mother geese and their clutch of goslings, here I have two photos of the little ones getting bigger.