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The Roost Tree
While heading downstream along my local creek I noticed a lump on a dead branch of a Willow Tree that did not quite look right. Moving closer I realised it was one of the local nocturnal Tawny...
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Bell Ringers of the Royal Gardens
On the weekend a mate and I headed to the Royal Botanic Gardens of Melbourne. A Powerful Owl had been reported and we were keen to find it. While we wandered about we also walked through the Bell Miner...
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“My” Powerful Owl
Our visit to the Botanical Gardens on the weekend was to search for the reported Powerful Owl. We found it at the southern end of the Fern Gully walk amongst the tall pines and conifers of the New...
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A Boobook Owl hunting in the veggie garden
After an afternoon of wandering around Elster Creek and Elsternwick Lake with the local birding gang , I went home and was reviewing the images of the day when an sms came in from Gio (a local...
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Roadside stop with the Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos
On the way down to the Mornington Peninsula with the Port Phillip Birders (Elwood/St Kilda Branches) to look for Black Faced Cormorants at Merricks Beach, and Albatross at Cape Schank, we stopped to...
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Alert but not alarmed…
On the weekend I met up with my local “gang” of birders and we wandered up Elster Creek to the Golf Course lake and had a look around…besides finding a turtle (my first Eastern Long Necked), we also...
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The local Botanic Gardens
St Kilda is an old sea-side holiday destination of Melbourne city. Tourists would travel all day by horse and buggy and coach to go to St Kilda and areas of Elwood for a holiday at the beach. It had...
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Hidden Bassian Thrush
I have visited Greens Bush a few times recently. It is part of the Mornington Peninsula National Park. It is a good spot to visit between seasons as many bird species tend to migrate along the ridge...
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Melbourne Laneways: ACDC Lane May updates
After a few weeks break I found that whole laneways had been resprayed. I quickly explored and photographed as many as I could before the work was over-sprayed or tagged. Some of the best was found in...
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Melbourne Laneways: Blender Lane
I have been following a number of artists and photographers on Instagram that I have met in the various Laneways and in one post I had noticed a reference to their favourite spot. It was to a Laneway...
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Melbourne Laneways: Blender Lane Stencil Art
Exploring Blender Lane recently I met a couple of the local studio artists who gave me a bit of a history of the laneway. One of the little nuggets of information that they gave me (maybe true maybe...
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Melbourne Laneways: Another art filled laneway
Didn’t want to name this one in the title – it is another informally named lane: Piss-stain Alley. It is a group of small alleys and lanes chock full of interesting pieces well away from the usual...
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Melbourne Laneways: P-stain Alley Pt2
There are so many good murals in this series of Alleys and Laneways I thought I would break the post into two parts. Street Art, P-Stain Alley, Melbourne CBD (a favourite) P-Stain Alley, Melbourne...
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Black and White modelling at Black Rock
Waking along the Black Rock Beach looking for fossilised sharks teeth with a friend, we noticed this pair practicing their modelling shots…the accidental blurring and sun contrast made an interesting...
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The Surfers at Point Addis
Surfer, Point Addis, Great Ocean Road, Victoria While looking for albatross and whales off Point Addis (near Bells Beach) along the Great Ocean Road, we watched the surfers riding waves close to the Pt...
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Point Cook Coastal Park
Over the long weekend, I visited the Point Cook Coastal Park to see what was around. At the gate leading to the beach track was a male Flame Robin. Like other robins he perches on a low vantage point...
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A sunny Winter’s day in Half Moon Bay
Golden Hour light on cliffs, Black Rock Beach, Victoria Recently I visited Black Rock and spent some time photographing this small beach also known as Half Moon Bay, the old pre-WW1 ironclad ship...
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Hawking with the Swallows
Another day at the Western Treatment Plant looking for Crakes and Rails, and in the next lagoon to the Crake Pit, we found a large flock of Welcome Swallows working a small section of the lagoon...
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Baillon’s Crake’s migration mystery
The only place I have regularly seen the Baillon’s Crake:adults and juveniles, is at the Crake Pit at the Western Treatment Plant. According to HANZAB (Handbook of Australian New Zealand Antarctic...
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Nightingale of the Pooh Farm
Another bird species that thrives in the reed beds of the Crake Pit at the Pooh Farm is the Australian Reed Warbler…it is more often heard than seen, generally only glimpsed as it flies between...
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