May 9 2013 in Blog by Jenny
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 [...]
Tags: insects, macro, spiders
Apr 15 2013 in Blog by Jenny
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, [...]
Tags: Birds, reptiles, victoria's riflebird
Mar 30 2013 in Blog by Jenny
…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 [...]
Tags: Birds
Mar 24 2013 in Blog by Jenny
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 [...]
Tags: Birds
Oct 21 2012 in Blog by Jenny
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 [...]
Tags: Birds