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Susan McCreery

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~ all at sea ~

Writer, water-wanderer. Ocean, flowers, movies, birds, books, 🐈‍⬛. Proofreader/copy editor for Australian Geographic & trade pubs. All the Unloved (novella set in a Bondi apt block) out now. Thirroul/Dharawal.

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First, honour the meal! Male nankeen kestrel inspects its catch on an old disused flagpole by the beach. Bellambi, NSW. 🪶

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Galahs galore! Recent rain has given rise to grass and grubs. 🪶

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When you didn't pay the book designer enough

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When your large adult son refuses to get a job so that he can feed himself. A fledgling male Northern Flicker gets a meal from dad.

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It’s time for the harmonies 📷🎶🕊️

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Spied this Lewin's honeyeater hip-hopping in the scrub by the beach this morning. 🪶

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How long does it take to fashion a cloak of fungi, moss and lichen? Years, I'd say. Years! What a beauty.🌿

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From my afternoon walk, looking south along this spectacular coastline. Last time I was here was just after the 2019–20 Black Summer bushfires and many of those cliffs were bald and charred. I even saw whales breaching on their annual migration north!

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Small mosquito orchids (Acianthus pusillus) on the edge of Croajingolong NP, VIC. Very small flowers on these winter orchids - almost the same size as the actual mozzies in these parts ;) Out a little bit later than usual this yr in late June at this location #orchids #winter #inthefield #Australia

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Little Girl With Her Cat, Roubaix Jean-Philippe Charbonnier c.1958

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Have driven a couple of hours south for a solo writing retreat in my favourite location. It's chilly and damp (it IS winter!), but I'm surrounded by nature. Spotted on my first walk: a pair of little pied cormorants drying their wings. Note how beak matches lichen! 🪶

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One for the syntax folk 🐦🐦

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when you know you're about to destroy at show and tell

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Coast banksia (B. integrifolia) alight at day's end. You can see the flower spike has 100s of flowers about to release their nectar, much loved by birds and insects, and birds that love insects.
#ozplants #FlowerReport 🌼🌱

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The fork in the path outside Haworth where Charlotte Brontë and Arthur Bell Nicholls used to meet premaritally late at night in the interest of secret canoodling. 📷📸🧳🧭🌿📚

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And I, you, and he; and we, ye, and they, are all bats; and I’m a crow

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Managed to catch this Squacco Heron as he was passing among the reeds. The blue nape/bill at this time of the year is so pronounced and great dreadlocks! #birds #ElHondo #PhotographyBreak

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About time too. It’s well known that chickens and ducks are the most irresponsible pet owners.

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Nothing like a cold-water swim at sunrise to make you feel aliiive! Woonona ocean pool, NSW.

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Ingrid Bergman during the filming of Stromboli (1950)

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But the mingled, mingling threads of life are woven by warp and woof: calms crossed by storms, a storm for every calm.

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So intense! It's a veritable beady blue eye!

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That blue eye! Juvenile satin bowerbird about to test out the taste of an orange in neighbour's yard just now. 🪶

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Some more plants that thrived during the recent 5-day heat dome…my dappled willow and lemony lace elderberry. Both now are in definite need of a haircut. ✂️ 🌱

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Good morning 😊☕️🌼 Here’s the Blue Pool at Abereiddy, Wales. A v deep former slate quarry.

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Here’s some Monday motivocean from this opulent opalescent nudibranch, Hermissenda opalescens: “Seas the day, frond! You got this!”

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What lies below is as fragile as what lies above. From today's lunchtime reset.

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I was asked, at great length, a question yesterday that I tried to read as other than "I get that nonbinary people want to use their pronouns of choice, but do the rest of us have to honor that?" And I couldn't. So: Yes. The rest of us do.

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This is D.H. Lawrence Reserve, Thirroul, a quiet little pocket of a park high above the sea. It was on this street in 1922 that Lawrence lived and wrote the novel Kangaroo.📚

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