These are the gold fish that Mum has in half a wine barrel on the back veranda. She also has a dog, a cat, 4 bird aviaries and a goat. Maybe we should rename her place the Bunyip Zoological Gardens instead of just the Bunyip Botanical Gardens.
I was intrigued and surprised with how this frog picture turned out with the odd lighting through the window. We'd been sitting outside in the cool breeze feeding the mosquitoes earlier. I think he must have been after some for a late night snack and I hope he was successful.
Morning dew has a perfect droplet on each of the jagged sections of the rose leaves. The new pink growth is very pretty with its crystal jewellery.
More wildlife found its way inside so these pictures were taken as it settled on the back of the drapes. I'm wondering if this is the culprit who is responsible for the giant caterpillars (see day #5) that eat the gum trees.
The collage is thanks to @brittgow 's timely tweet about Photovisi,a photo-collage program, as I was beginning to post today's photo. I thought I would give it a try and found it was very easy to use with lots of layout and design options. Best of all a log-in wasn't required. Perfect for school! Today I had another surprise visitor in the house. I'm sure the abundance of "creatures" to be found in and around the garden is due to the mild and wet summer we are having. On the other hand I'm not sure how this little Skink got into the house. Luckily for him we were able to set him free once he had his photo taken. Occasionally we find a mummified Skink on the window sill or in a corner of the house because they haven't been able to find their way back to the garden.
We had a day at the beach at Phillip Island and as we took our usual walk along the pier we watched 3 or 4 family groups "fishing" for crabs. They would lower their baited crab nets into the sea and in no time at all they would haul it back to the pier with up to half a dozen crabs. The little crabs would be thrown back in the water but the bigger ones went in the Eski. It made me wonder how safe my toes would be if we went swimming because the sea bottom must have been crawling with the little crustaceans.
We ate dinner outside tonight and when we looked into the garden there was a collection of spiders of various sizes very busily building their webs. We've had large Orb Weaver Spiders in the garden before so it is nice to see them back again. There are certainly enough mosquitoes to feed them all.
I tried to photograph the biggest one (around 2cm) but it wouldn't stop running around and making its web long enough to let me focus with my digital camera. It was a handsome specimen with stripey legs and under-body. The flash on the camera did catch this outline of the spider with the web attached to its spinneret and the half built web. I will look in the garden in the morning to see if it is still there and maybe try again in better light. This brilliantly coloured rose was harboring a hitch hiker.The creature appeared to be soaking up the colour from the rose itself in an effort to hide.
I believe this is a Katydid (commonly known as a bush cricket or long horned grasshopper) who normally has pinkish legs anyway. I wonder if the little holes in the petals are where it had its dinner? Imagine my surprise when this unusual visitor crawled across my kitchen bench yesterday. I think she came in with the hydrangeas that I had picked, but at nearly 2cm she gave me quite a start as she scurried by.
After a little research on the internet I was able to identify her as a "Badge Huntsman". She gave me a clue when she crawled to top of the glass bowl and showed off the shield under her abdomen. Maybe she was trying to "frighten me away" You can read about the Badge Huntsman here (http://museumvictoria.com.au/spiders/detail.aspx?pid=0) This is the huge Gum Tree that marks 1km on my morning walk. It would take at least 3 or 4 people holding hands together to reach around the trunk. To add to its beauty the bark peels revealing the creamy white trunk and makes a fantastic spiral pattern around the limbs. There are three of these majestic Gums remaining along the roadside.
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