Awesome Clouds
Coming back from feeding the birds at 5.45 I was awestruck by the clouds. They made the sky […]
Tolerating the Teenagers
Only one day after it was all out war between the young birds and the originals, they both […]
Yellow Rumped Thornbill
I knew I had found the correct bird in the field guide when it said, “Hops on open […]
Sunlit Silent Sentinels
I could see the sun rise over the horizon by watching the light stretching down the trees. The […]
Thank you Supernanny
Last night it took over 30 minutes to herd the 9 young guineas back into their newly fortified cage […]
Like a Blanket
A massive cloud band stretched overhead this morning looking like a blanket of cotton wool. It made me […]
Galileo Coconut Oil Thermometer
Yesterday morning I noticed that the coconut oil in the pantry was solidifying in little globules. It reminded […]
Martins Out, Crane in
I may be missing the Martins, but the Crane isn’t. Ten days ago he was driven off, but […]
Intervention
The keet had not made any progress when I looked in on it at 6 in the morning. […]
Martins no More
Two weeks after hundreds of Fairy Martins, were bathing and drinking in the dam, they have disappeared from […]
Starfish
This massive melon escaped the first weeding mission 2 weeks ago and had developed 3 large melons on […]
Friendly Frog
We were spreading sand and gravel at the front of the house when I saw some movement in […]
Perfect Timing
The rain started just as I drove the mower and spread/spiker back undercover. We were going to […]
Rain Gauge
This zucchini clearly shows the water stress as it developed over 3 consecutive hot days earlier this week.
Our World at 5.45am
There are some upsides getting up before dawn and the epic sunrises are one of them. We sit […]
Mowing the Meadow
I mowed the summer paddock/arena in preparation for fertilising tomorrow. I concentrated on the longer grass on the […]
Guard Dog
I had kept Shorty back when letting the birds out previously, but today, I just let her be […]
Lock Down at Day 25
I candled the eggs a couple of days ago and only 2 were fertile, so this whole incubator […]
Lined up on a Log
I had left the birds inside their cage for a couple of days to let the injuries from […]
Autumn Leaves
The last 3 very hot days have caused the Jarrah and Marri to drop some of their leaves, […]
New Pump Controller
We dropped the pump and controller into the ever patient Steve at Aquashed so he could bench-test them […]
Flare Up
We were at Brad’s cousin in Donnybrook and Brad noticed the column of smoke rising over the bush […]
Bathing Bee-uty
It looked just like a cat washing itself. It was sitting on top of a wooden post and […]
Young Guinea Died
When we went to feed the birds this morning, the one-legged bird was dead. I wasn’t surprised and […]
Fox Bites Leg Off Young Guinea
When I went to feed the young birds this morning, it looked like there had been a massacre, […]
Harvest
It feels great to pick your whole dinner out of the garden. Tonight we will be having zucchini […]
First Encounter
I let the young Guineas out for an hour again this morning. As happened last time, Murray did […]
Get Away From Our Dam!
The flocking Martins made short work of seeing off the crane that tried to come down to the […]
Wasps Nesting
The wasps are very active at the moment as they feed and seal their larvae into individual chambers […]
The Nights are Drawing In
It seems strange to think of shortening days as we face the second heatwave of summer, with 4 […]
Birds of a Feather
There must have been about 1000 birds flocking this morning. The sun was glinting off their pale bodies […]
First Taste of Freedom
I let the young Guineas out for their first taste of freedom this morning. I had opened the […]
Unseasonably Chilly
The Dam looked like it was steaming this morning. At 8.5 Degrees, the temperature is 6 degrees below […]
In the flock
It was a cool and still morning, only 11 Degrees when I went out just after 6am. It […]
300 Birds on a Wire
When I went to the dam this morning, hundreds of Fairy Martins were gathered on the power and fence […]
Great Guardians
The Guineas were outside the house, making a noise with heads all tilted keeping one eye on the […]
Baby Blue Eggs
When Brad was getting some water to re-prime the pump, he saw these eggs in the dam. There […]
New Ball Valve
Brad had the brilliant idea to put a ball valve into the upstream pipe from the pump. In […]
Melons
On our morning walk round the property, we found (hopefully) the last patch of melons. They are easy […]
March Flies in February
The March flies Tabanidae Diptera are out in force already. I haven’t been bitten yet this year, but […]
Sounds of Summer
As the sun goes down, the birds start up, and tonight, the Magpies and Crows were almost deafening […]
Scents of Summer
We only have a couple of these trees round the property, they have prickly, serrated, holly shaped leaves […]
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