The garden in spring...

All it takes is a few days of sunshine to bring so many things into bloom...

My new feathered friend...

A night visitor

This is a Southern Brown Tree-frog that was clinging to the glass doors at about 10pm a couple of nights ago. The flash has made its skin colour look brighter than it actually is.

Bowerbirds show up for lunch

I often have Currawongs come looking for dry dog food to eat, but it seems the Satin Bowerbirds also like it. The blue one is the male, the green and brown is the female. (The black bird is, of course, a Currawong.)

Southern Brown Tree Frog

This is actually a picture from several months ago. It's a Southern Brown tree Frog that was sheltering one hot afternoon in the coolness of a huge flax plant.

The native robin

I've been wanting to get a picture of one of the robin species for ages. This is the female Scarlet Robin (Petroica multicolor), although the photo has made his breast look more like an orange-red than a rose-red.

Wrens having a winters feast

During cold weather I make a mixture of oats, animal fat and honey that I smear all over a pine cone and then I hang out the cone for the wrens to come and have a feed. It makes life just that little bit easier for them, and they love it. The Grey Shrike-thrushes also like it as well.