These photos are the result of a walk around my suburban Townsville garden in peak insect season, a couple of weeks after the very-Wet season ended.
Peak insect season in my garden
Tag: dragonfly
Rowes Bay wetlands
I took my camera down to the wetland boardwalk behind Rowes Bay Sustainability Centre and the (new) Landcare Nursery a week ago. It was a very hot day but I found a good shady spot with views to nearby swamp and perches, and waited for the birds to forget I was there.
They did, and I got nice photos of half a dozen species. The best of them have already been shared online so I will just post links to them as they appear on iNaturalist: Sacred Kingfisher, Masked Lapwing, Koel (female), Hornbill Friarbird, and Pheasant Coucal.
But I’m a bug-hunter too, so here are some of the smaller creatures I saw from the boardwalk.
Dragonflies beside Rollingstone Creek
Three months ago I visited Rollingstone Creek with a Wildlife Queensland group, and I liked the place so much that I went back there a few days ago. The creek and its park weren’t much changed (Rollingstone, 50 km to our North, has had more rain than Townsville so it hasn’t continued to dry out as we have) but the star attractions this time were the insects, not the birds.
Dragonfly showcase
Of the insects, one dragonfly was outstanding.
This gorgeously coloured dragonfly was new to me Continue reading “Dragonflies beside Rollingstone Creek”
Alligator Creek wildlife
Photos of wildlife seen at Alligator Creek, as promised in my previous post.
Birds
Most of the birds I saw were honeyeaters enjoying the bottlebrush blossom along the creek Continue reading “Alligator Creek wildlife”
Town Common in June
Two weeks ago I took advantage of a free day to visit the Town Common for the first time since the very hot (but not very wet) Wet season and I’m now taking advantage of an unseasonably wet day to post some of the photos I took there.
I walked in from the Pallarenda car-park, around the wetland loop and then up the Many Peaks track for the wonderful views from the top. I continued half an hour further along the track, down from the hill-crest and through a large vine thicket, before returning the way I came. I heard lots of birds at the very beginning of the walk but they didn’t pose for me so the insects are the stars of my gallery. Continue reading “Town Common in June”