tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51945828707301168772024-02-20T11:26:53.149+11:00little clicking crowGrace Gartonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11419102652097706549noreply@blogger.comBlogger129125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194582870730116877.post-63750581199405859372016-10-18T08:25:00.004+11:002016-10-18T08:42:41.675+11:00Wild flowers of the midlands<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Know your blossoms! Taken today just before the rain came pelting down.Some from our little orchard and from the reserve. For me it was the first time I've seen a sundew in flower!Grace Gartonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11419102652097706549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194582870730116877.post-24767940604104877482015-09-15T20:19:00.002+10:002015-09-15T20:19:53.604+10:00Wurmbea dioci - Early Nancy<br />
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Yes she certainly early, just after the snow cleared she popped up.<br />
I've never seen her growing here before probably just didn't get out and about at the right time!Grace Gartonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11419102652097706549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194582870730116877.post-4653156446622484492015-09-15T19:23:00.005+10:002015-09-15T19:23:59.333+10:00Diuris chryseopsis<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A first for me to see these orchids growing here on the neighboring reserve. Diuris chryseopsis, also known as the Snake orchid. It is a typical grassland species. Interesting that the orchids here on the reserve mostly grow best where there is heavy lichen and moss.<br />
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Yes we have chooks, Austropoles. Our two fat ladies get a new lease on life after several years at a small school farm.<br />
They were very over weight obviously surviving on school lunches.<br />
No one is sure how old they are some even suggested they were around 7 to 13 years!<br />
both had severe scaly foot which we've managed to control with vegetable oil foot baths! <br />
Jen lays the most eggs and Esther every 3 days or so.<br />
You'll be seeing lots of chook photos in the months to come!<br />
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Jen and Esther when they first arrived, one frosty winters day<br />
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Jen from up high on her coup, watching us in the garden<br />
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She's not happy! We've had to fence off the whole garden not just from the hens but from the native animalsGrace Gartonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11419102652097706549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194582870730116877.post-64546640656126962702014-01-09T11:44:00.002+11:002014-01-09T11:45:28.070+11:00A prickly customer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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You have to get down on to the same ground level and have plenty of patience when photographing an echidna. They could be the same echidna the top photo was taken a couple of months earlier on our property.<br />
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My partner first found Billy Bob when he was just an egg! The parents, see photos below, had made a little nest in our little almond tree. The egg hatched and not before to long the little bird had grown some feathers and was becoming very vocal, unfortunately the nest didn't last, as the winds during this time of year, January, are very extreme. the nest blew apart and The little fledgling was on the ground bopping about and his parents were very anxious flying back and forth around him and making lots of noise. We tried to repair the nest and pop the little one back in but the wind and rain was so fierce that it wasn't long before the chick was blown back out again. Fortunately for him we found him quickly before a large goanna that was lurking under the tree found him!<br />
We took the little chick inside and rang for advice on how to raise a baby gold finch. Soon we had the right food and information and over the months this little guy endeared himself in our hearts and our visitors hearts.<br />
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My partner named him Billy Bob..not sure why, but it seemed to fit! It was so amazing to watch this tiny little bird grow and mature, how his feathers changed colour, how his flying maneuvers improved and the most astonishing thing was his ability to mimic our whistle and the whistling of other birds he heard outside.<br />
He really had the run of the whole house. We had always planed to let him go one day but he seemed to be so dependent on us, well so we thought...it just took one second of lack in concentration one morning with the door just opened and out flew Billy Bob...I was devastated, I watched him speechless and tried top call him back but he kept on flying off into the distance, I watched him till he disappeared. To this day I still think that he visits us and sometimes I hear a little bird wolf whistling in the distance. If he is still out there I'm sure he would have taught other Gold finches several new whistling tunes!Grace Gartonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11419102652097706549noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194582870730116877.post-78031413038530278942012-11-28T19:47:00.000+11:002012-11-28T22:42:59.407+11:00This evening<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I am pretty sure that these European Golden Finches are the same pair that played in my garden this morning! In fact I don't believe they even left. Probably wondering what happened to all the ripe cherries and taking note of the raspberries that should be ready for picking in a week or two!<br />
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Tomorrow I''ll try and get up early to take a walk down to the Jordan river that runs nearby, there are lots more smaller birds, swamp harriers and cootes out and about!</div>
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This morning while pottering around in the garden i was visited by a couple of cheeky European Golden finches. I think they were in search of the ripe cherries I had just picked as they stayed in the garden flying from tree to tree. A beautiful little bird!</div>
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<br />Grace Gartonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11419102652097706549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194582870730116877.post-86560708379442580802012-11-11T16:43:00.000+11:002012-11-11T16:43:20.435+11:00Yay, I'm back with a new camera in hand<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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These two bird photo's where taken with my new Canon rebel t3i and a telephoto zoom lens. Not too bad for my first attempt with the new set up. It's going to take a while to learn all the new functions and read through the manual...this camera does so much more than the old Sony I had.</div>
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I am looking forward to learning the ins and outs of my new camera and lenses, have to find a solution to carrying all this equipment with me when I go for walks...I'll have to change my 'A bit more about me' info!</div>
Grace Gartonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11419102652097706549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194582870730116877.post-65828873520366021012012-08-24T07:44:00.003+10:002012-08-24T07:44:47.179+10:00sorryno posts for a while..no camera....sob, sob, sobGrace Gartonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11419102652097706549noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194582870730116877.post-29714211158252265782012-03-24T13:10:00.002+11:002012-03-24T13:13:44.246+11:00Desmodium Update!<div style="color: #cccccc;">
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Here's the letter I received from Richard Schahinger the senior botanist from the department of primary industries, parks, water and environment, regarding the Desmodium growing on our property.
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Many thanks for
that. It’s an interesting one, in that for years we thought we had
just the one species of Desmodium in Tasmania, D. gunnii (currently listed as
vulnerable). It was only when botanical surveys were undertaken of your
block in 2004/2005 that D. varians came to light (it’s also known from
Victoria), the diagnostic features being the shape of the fruit (lobed on one
side rather than both, as evident in your photos) & the character of the
three leaflets (with the ‘stem’ of the middle one being much longer than the
two side ones). We’ve tried to convince ourselves from herbarium
collections that D. varians may also be at a couple of other sites in Tasmania,
but without the fruit it’s been problematic. Having said that, the week
after I talked to Brendan I visited a property in the Fingal Valley &
turned up what appears to be good varians at a site that been recorded
previously as D. gunnii (see the attached pic), in the 100s to 1000s, & in
not dissimilar habitat to Ford Road (D. gunnii tends to be more of a forest
species, which was what prompted me to check out the seemingly atypical Fingal
site). So that’s where we’re at at present: essentially two confirmed
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eye on the fruit. When things look ‘right’ I’ll get someone from the
Royal Tas Botanical Gardens to collect seed for storage at their Seed
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bleached branch, lichen, and weeds, Pontvile.</div>
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Feeling a little bit frustrated that the birds around here are not obliging at all, refusing to have their photo taken..but I have been watching and recording what birds I have seen around here...Pardalotes are new visitors here along with the dusky robin, house sparrows and European gold finch. Brown falcons frequently fly over head, so too are ducks, herons and today I spotted a grey and a white goshawk!</div>
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There are always black birds around and starlings seem to be on the increase...and I'm sure there is an owl around I can hear him early in the morning. A neighbor must have a peacock, his call echo's around the valley throughout the day. Native hens run around the Jordan river near by and two unidentified large birds...could be peacocks without their tail feather?<br />
I love the sounds of the native hens they sound like a hack saw cutting through sheets of metal.</div>Grace Gartonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11419102652097706549noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194582870730116877.post-64735631477302531152011-12-08T08:46:00.001+11:002011-12-08T11:17:45.888+11:00Desmodium Varians<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Introducing Desmodium varians...but is it? This is the question being asked by botanists and conservationists who think it may be a new variation on the 'varians'. I's growing down the bottom end of our property at Pontville, I was asked to keep and eye on it and hopefully get some photo's of the flowers and seed pod. The flower is a pale to dark pink and only 2mm if that! The leaf on this varians is quite different to what I've seen <a href="http://hawksnestherbarium.com.au/gallery/v/flowers/mauvepurple/Desmodium+varians/"><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-size: large;">here</span></a>, the seed pod too only appears to have two at the most seeds. I'm sending the photo's off to be identified and will let you know the results.Grace Gartonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11419102652097706549noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194582870730116877.post-28471586292502524992011-10-29T11:55:00.001+11:002011-11-02T09:35:52.056+11:00wild and native, update<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Bulbine Glauca. LILIACEA. Golden Bulbine-lily</div>
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ORCHIDACEA. Diuris sulphurea. tiger Orchid</div>
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ORCHIDACEA. Diuris sulphurea. tiger Orchid</div>
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Convolvulus erubescens.or blushing bindweed</div>
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Arthropdium.minus. Small vanilla lily</div>
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A wild and windy evening.<br />
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Still getting to know my new environment. At first glance it looks so dry and inhospitable to any life...but look closer and you will find an oasis of life, colour and fertility. </div>
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The land next to ours has a covenant and is visited on a regular basis by a conservation team..my partner and I hope to join them in a few weeks...learning about caring for the land, basically weed control and noting where the rare and endangered lichen and wild flowers grow.</div>
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Due to the lack of trees here it's hard to take photo's of birds..but I've spotted many types, Golden Finch, Dusky Swallow, Wrens and Brown Falcons.</div>
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There is also evidence of bandicoots, quolls.</div>
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Helichrysum scorpiodes</div>Grace Gartonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11419102652097706549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194582870730116877.post-80252953402228179422011-10-14T10:19:00.001+11:002011-10-31T19:03:03.655+11:00good bye city life...we've moved to the mid-lands<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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apple blossom buds</div>
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Echidna</div>
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Bee in a blossom</div>
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Native rice flower</div>
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Hibbertia procumbens, Spreading guineaflower</div>
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Mr Bennett is becoming a regular early morning visitor to our front yard. I worry for him though as he makes his way back into the bush, he has to hop his way up the road and there have been a lot of wallabies killed recently. You would think people would realize that living near the bush there just maybe wildlife out and about at night and early mornings...why can't they drive slower...our road is a dead end, do they really need to drive so fast to get home! The council has put up a tiny sign a few meters down the road, nobody can see it and to the morons on the road they probably see it as an invitation to run over the wildlife!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Be very careful Mr Bennett! </div>Grace Gartonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11419102652097706549noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194582870730116877.post-65716740600977215712010-12-15T11:54:00.000+11:002010-12-15T11:54:59.994+11:00My Gaudy Backyard<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI6wrlBvE1TPxvUomrGg4f93L4LikrJ3pzGZNlRL8J2wmoWxbUD8TAVYCVXxptpGEkOq_gY_RvAtOTRIbpoIkGua4peLTQejSWZwzKsXFuoe4aAiTpd23SR0nTvzJWSm-vcD0wIaln7X7-/s1600/yellowspider.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br />
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