Backyard critters, great and small

[stylofone]

I hope the link to Pixelfed plays nice with the forum software.

https://pixelfed.au/p/AvonVilla/610597285004799642

[stylofone]

https://pixelfed.au/p/AvonVilla/611301669052425986

[Irrev-Black]

No footage, alas, but I was just escorting Dog out for her Evening Empty, and a huuuuuuge grey shape lifted off from the far end of the shed.

It can only have been a Powerful Owl.

[stylofone]

https://pixelfed.au/p/AvonVilla/615476462404714291

[Irrev-Black]

Yay, "Frogs of Australia" website, for solving the mystery!

We currently have a rather loud Striped Marsh Frog going "TOCK!" at regular intervals from near the back fence.

https://frogs.org.au/frogs/ofQld/Darling_Downs

[Irrev-Black]

A reminder - it's this week.

https://aussiebirdcount.org.au/

[Irrev-Black]

'Tis t'irsty work, dis pollinatin'!

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And they were 5cm from a Venus Flytrap.

[Irrev-Black]

Less habitat and food for the local critters, more urban heatsink for us.

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I gather the placement is inconvenient to somebody building what may be another storage facility for the fruits of people's accumulated overconsumption.

[Irrev-Black]

Bees - habitual drinkers after a hard day's work?

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[two dogs]

It's that time of year when some black swans breed in the constructed wetlands in my southern suburb of Wollongong, Shell Cove. It's not my photo, but the cygnets are adorable: