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Sandy Horne@sandyhorne.bsky.social |
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Birder. Amateur photographer. Mostly birds but other things at times. Feed cleansing one photo at a time.
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Reflections at the Rocks Reserve near Balaklava yesterday. I had the place to myself, which is always lovely. Today, it was full of birders looking for that rare bird. Glad I got in early! 😄
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It may have been visiting from Unley, but this was in Prospect.
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Australia has more than 250 species of sundews (drosera). I love taking photos of these carnivorous plants and now, through to spring, is the best time to find them. These sundews were at Spring Gully Conservation Park yesterday.
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My daughter just saw this at her local shops in Adelaide 😄
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Wow - you must have been really close to a nest. Not usual behaviour for these guys. In my case, I was sitting in my car when I took my photos, thankfully.
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This brown falcon stared me down yesterday, clearly unafraid. Undalya, South Australia. #birds
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After hearing of an unusual bird being seen at The Rocks Reserve yesterday, I went looking for it today - and found it!
White-fronted gerygones are not usually South Australian birds so a cool sighting. Though one was seen at Gluepot too during my last visit there.
🪶 #birds
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They have a really distinctive call. I love it.
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The Adelaide ones would be yellow-tailed black cockatoos.
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A female red-tailed black cockatoo at Walgett, NSW.
🪶 #birds
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Oonartra Waterhole at Boolcoomatta Reserve.
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Eagle Rock at Boolcoomatta. This is where I sit quietly, just before dusk, to watch the yellow-footed rock wallabies come out. This is their habitat. Also, great sunset views to Dome Rock and beyond from this high point. I love it up here.
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Some Boolcoomatta scenery.
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Sad to see that the huge old dead gum tree at my bus stop is gone. I've watched, over the past few years, as a pair of galahs have been hollowing out the top. I saw them this morning - sitting on a nearby light pole. They'll be wondering where their tree went 🙁 Dead trees have value.
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An old shed ... and an incredible sky ... near Halbury. This seemed like excellent danger noodle habitat 🐍
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Sturt's desert peas (Swainsona formosa) near Roxby Downs. The floral emblem of the state of South Australia. From my archives.
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A female zebra finch at Boolcoomatta.
#birds
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A yellow-footed rock wallaby on the move at Boolcoomatta.
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Happy July! If you have my bird calendar, it's time to flip the page. This month we have 'Stickybeaks' Curious teenager emus at Boolcoomatta came all the way from the horizon right over to see what I was doing. The wildflowers include darling peas, swainson-peas and native daisies.
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Oh, very cool 🙂
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I think I've shared most of my Boolcoomatta shots. But here are some from the camera trap which I set up at a puddle near the camping ground. Nothing exciting but interesting to see what came in for a drink (red kangaroos and emus).
🪶 #birds
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A red-capped robin at Spring Gully Conservation Park.
Archive shot.
🪶 #birds
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Are you originally from SA, Mary?
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A European honeybee and agapanthus - both imports to Australia but a pretty sight in a friend's garden.
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A landscape for a change. Storm clouds over Bruce in the southern Flinders Ranges.
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Lachlan is not the type of doctor you'd need for a medical emergency on board an aircraft (though his skills with Flight Simulator might be handy if a pilot is needed 🤣) but I did enjoy the celebrations when he received his PhD in Dec 2019 ... just before Covid swept the world.
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My son turns 36 today. 36! So proud of his achievements (a PhD from ANU, his meteoric rise to Principal Engineer at Microsoft) but mostly I'm proud of the decent caring human being that he has become. Quote below by Lachlan in 2013 while studying at ANU 😄
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Way hey hey!
A silver gull at Cape Northumberland, South Australia.
Archive shot.
🪶 #birds
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From 2022 ...
Out here, there are few tall things to perch on, so this wedge-tailed eagle made use of this Telstra pole near Pimba.
🪶 #birds
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A cockatiel taking flight after grabbing a drink from the dam at Bruce.
From my archives.
🪶 #birds
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Exciting ...
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Yeah. I went outside. Same here.
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If anyone has any clear sky right now, it's worth having a look outside! Tassie is getting some action now, in between the clouds.
#aurora
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I hesitate to mention this in case I jinx myself, but it has been a full two years since I had any type of respiratory illness. And, as far as I know, I haven't had covid yet. Two years without even so much as a cold. Yes, I do consider myself lucky. May my luck continue!
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Whoosh!
Red-necked stints showing off their white bellies at Bald Hill Beach.
🪶 #birds
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A silvereye doing some gymnastics.
From my trip to Gympie last year.
🪶 #birds
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Remember the good old days ...
when you couldn't tell how journalists voted?
And when journalists weren't the story?
It's not something this kestrel has to worry about.
🪶 #birds
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Regent parrot.
Gluepot Reserve.
From my archives.
🪶 #birds
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From my archives.
A row of young rosellas on a farm fence in the Clare Valley.
🪶 #birds
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It was appalling. But a boycott is just what Murdoch wants. He would like nothing more than to destroy the ABC entirely.
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Happy Wrensday Wednesday!
One from the vault.
A red-backed fairywren on a farm fence post at Amamoor.
#birds #wrensday
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Oh - well that makes sense! Thanks!
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Just watching a documentary where researchers have worked out that the leg tendon of a grey kangaroo can take a force of 880 newtons. That's for the mathy types here. I have no idea what that means. It's a lot, apparently. Anyway, here's a red kangaroo to accompany this factoid.
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😂
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Kickin' up the dust.
More emu action from Boolcoomatta.
🪶 #birds
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Another selfie from Boolcoomatta.
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The old wagon at Mundianna Dam, Boolcoomatta Reserve.
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My son sent me a photo he took of a western kingbird yesterday. He likes birds but isn't a birder. I think he takes the photos for me 😀
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Zebra finches at Boolcoomatta.
🪶 #birds
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Awwwwwww 😪
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