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Birdwatching with the Conservation Volunteers
Conservation Volunteers Australia has a new summer programme (pdf here) of excursions open to everyone and we went along to one this morning – birdwatching on the Town Common. A CVA worker met us at the park gate and took us … Continue reading
Posted in Birds, Conservation
Tagged bird, Bird Observers Club, birdwatching, Conservation Volunteers, Cormorant, Egret, Pelican, Town Common
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Dry season – fire season
Looking back across the Town Common to Castle Hill I saw a plume of smoke rising from beyond its lower slopes. It was my second fire for the day, and a reminder that we are well into our dry season. … Continue reading
Posted in Nature photography
Tagged Cape Pallarenda, Dry season, fire, seasonal change, Town Common
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Butterflies on the Common
In an afterword to my previous post I mentioned an afternoon on Cape Pallarenda and the Town Common. Here are some of the butterflies I saw on that walk. First, along the track over the cape towards Shelly Beach (as usual, … Continue reading
Rainbow bee-eater
The Rainbow Bee-eater is a beautiful bird whose closest relations in Australia are Kingfishers and Kookaburras. (There are other bee-eaters overseas, but not here.) It is rather smaller than the Kookaburra but has similarly predatory habits – as its name … Continue reading
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Tagged bird, photography, Rainbow Bee-eater, Town Common
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