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visitors

Leafy visitor

I’d just cut back the woody stems of the verandah vines — the ornamental grape and the wisteria. A scattering of brown tendrils and dry curling leaves had landed on the verandah and I began to sweep them off. Only, one decided it didn’t want to be swept and began lurching away. It was so delicate [...]

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Next G snake?

As if I hadn’t had enough trouble with the older generation of red-bellied black snakes, the established adults,  I now seem to have a new, cheekier generation. The other day, over the top of my glasses, and my computer, I caught a dark movement amongst the leafy verandah screen. A fluid, flowing dark movement — [...]

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Rosey splashes

The birch tree may have had to wait for its Christmas decorations, but it was worth it. For a brief time four Crimson Rosellas bedecked its slender branches, the thin leaf cover hiding none of their brilliance. A momentary adornment, as soon they were on the ground, sampling the seed heads of various grasses, waddling [...]

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Where brushes meet

The native Brush Cherry (Szygium australe) in my garden is just opening its buds. Somehow the word went straight out into the butterfly world, for within a day of this happening, a certain species suddenly appeared to claim those flowers. I counted around 35 of these butterflies just on the sides I could see. They [...]

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