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Rest assured that the animals shown here were in no way harmed, even the snakes, and care was taken to disturb them as little as possible
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Bob Trlin > A Common Brown Butterfly sipping on an Angophora bispida bloom. I was taking a photo of the blooms when this butterfly swooped in and stole the show.
Bob Trlin > Tawny Frogmouth (Podargus strigoides) Resting motionless in our pergola hoping no one will see her
Bob Trlin > Wallaby poo and toad stools (pardon the pun)
Bob Trlin > Striated Thornbill (Acanthiza lineata)
Bob Trlin > Jumping spider Jeepers kreepers, where did you get those peepers? A tiny jumping spider on the kitchen sink. Two large eyes facing forward are typical of jumping spiders. There are smaller eyes on either side.
Bob Trlin > Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (Cacatua galerita) This is Polly. Polly and Christopher have been regular visitors over the years. They used to bring along their young son Lankard but he seems to have gone his own way now, as they do. None of my family members will pose for me so I have to practice my portraiture skills on the local wildlife.
Bob Trlin > Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (Cacatua galerita) "What are you looking at?" thinks Polly while eating a cracker. We give Polly and Christopher a water cracker each when they visit but only one a day. We don't want to discourage then from foraging in the wild. However, I'm sure they have a few other families trained to feed them as well.
Bob Trlin > Goanna and Cockatoo "Oi! Get out'a mi tree!", screeched Polly Cockatoo to Mrs. Goanna.
Bob Trlin > Skipper Ant (Myrmecia nigrocincta): These are a species of bull ant about 15mm long and like all bull ants, very aggressive. They will look up at you, decide if you are a threat, then attack fearlessly one-on-one. Unlike other ants, they have a sting in their tail like a bee and boy do they hurt, more than a bee sting. They attack with a skipping/jumping action which makes them difficult to follow in the leaf litter. Often while you are watching the one skipping towards you, you will be stung by the one you didn't see behind you.
Bob Trlin > Red Bull Ant 1 (Myrmecia nigriscapa): Attacking a small bug with its large mandibles. The mandibles are for grabbing only. The sting is in the tail.
Bob Trlin > Red Bull Ant 2 (Myrmecia nigriscapa): While holding the bug in its mandibles, the bull ant delivers the fatal blow with its very potent sting in its tail
Bob Trlin > Myrmecia nigrocincta (Skipper Ant): This guy has just stolen the pollinia out of a Cryptostylis erecta (Hooded Orchid). I don't know if this is just part of the pollination process or whether he is just a thief. From this point, I saw him jump a good 10cm horizontally to a nearby plant. Skipper Ant theif
Bob Trlin > Echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) This guy wanted to hide from me by burying himself ostrich style in bark litter of an angophora. There was not much I could have done to him anyway even if I wanted to.
Bob Trlin > Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) hive in the wild I found this hive in a bush-fire burnt out gum-tree near home. I suffered five stings as a result of getting this photo with a macro lens. I'm using my 50-200mm next time. The Honey Bees are not native. There are more that 1,500 native bees species in Australia. They either don't sting or have a only a mild sting. Some produce a very rich honeys but only in small quantities.
Bob Trlin > Brush Turkey (Alectura lathami) - female The bulding in the back is the chooks' pen. This turkey hen might be going to adopt our chooks. She has been hanging around for a while. Unfortunately, they like building large mounds of compost into which they lay their eggs. The eggs are incubated by the the heat generated by the compost. Incidental, Brush-turkeys are not even closely related to the American turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) which many of us had for Christmas dinner.
Myrmecia nigrocincta (Skipper Ant):
This guy has just stolen the pollinia out of a Cryptostylis erecta (Hooded Orchid). I don't know if this is just part of the pollination process or whether he is just a thief. From this point, I saw him jump a good 10cm horizontally to a nearby plant. Skipper Ant theif
Bob Trlin > Myrmecia nigrocincta (Skipper Ant): This guy has just stolen the pollinia out of a Cryptostylis erecta (Hooded Orchid). I don't know if this is just part of the pollination process or whether he is just a thief. From this point, I saw him jump a good 10cm horizontally to a nearby plant. Skipper Ant theif
Myrmecia nigrocincta (Skipper Ant):
This guy has just stolen the pollinia out of a Cryptostylis erecta (Hooded Orchid). I don't know if this is just part of the pollination process or whether he is just a thief. From this point, I saw him jump a good 10cm horizontally to a nearby plant. Skipper Ant theif
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Keywords: wildflowers ants wildlife orchids insects bull ant orchidaceae myrmecia nigrocincta skipper ant cryptostylis cryptostylis erecta hooded orchid
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