I have often been amazed by macro photos of the lilliputian world inhabited by tiny spiders and insects. So I have forgone eating for a few weeks and purchased a macro lens – money well spent!  The last dry day (when was that again?) I spent peering into the bushes taking photos of everything that [...]

I had an little bit of excitement at the cottages today.  I was cleaning at the Pioneer cottage and my daughter told me there was a Victoria’s Riflebird displaying above the cottage. Of course it was finished by the time I got there!  But we could hear the swooshing of wings coming from the forest, [...]

…honeyeaters that is! In January this year, when the Euodia trees were flowering, a couple of honeyeaters came in that I haven’t seen at Crater Lakes before. The white-cheeked honeyeater was bossy, singing loundly and chasing the other honeyeaters away. I read on birdlife.org.au that they are colloquially known as the ‘Moustached Honeyeater’, but I [...]

Earlier this year, when the Euodia Trees were bursting with blooms, a small group of Scarlet Honeyeaters were regular visitors.  I see them occasionally through the year on the bottlebrushes and grevillias, but in January and February they are easy to photograph near the pond as they come down for a drink. The adult males are resplendent in scarlet [...]

I was excited a couple of weeks ago to get some video of a Wompoo Fruit-Dove calling.  They are usually very shy, and will fly away if they see you looking at them.  So after I set the camera up, I turned away to look in the opposite direction, listening to the “wom poo” and [...]