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Pied Oystercatcher having a bath in Cudgen Creek NSW near the beach. I love the ‘water helmet’ in one photo.

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Medium-sized bird with black features and large, straight, red-orange bill and eye in shallow water with water splashes over its body.

Medium-sized bird with black features and large, straight, red-orange bill and eye in shallow water with a transparent layer of water over its head.

We were walking on Kingscliff beach in the late afternoon when this Osprey took off near the dunes, clutching its dinner.

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Dark photograph of an Osprey with a fish in its talons flying against a dark sky.

TFW you have a long lens on your camera and a large bird comes over to investigate. Australasian Swamphen, Newport Lakes.

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Close-up of the head of a large swamphen with purple neck and black head, red eyes and a bright red bill and forehead shield.

Hoary-headed Grebe, Newport Lakes

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Small brown grebe with grey streaks on its head, swimming on rippling water.

Little Pied Cormorant, Newport Lakes.

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Medium-sized cormorant with white front, shiny black back and yellow bill, perched on a shiny branch.

Medium-sized cormorant with white front, black back and yellow bill, swimming in mildly rippling water.

I am in Melbourne and stupidly forgot to try to photograph the aurora last night.

This morning I got a photo of the #sun through fog. You can see a big area of #sunspot activity as well as some smaller ones.

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The sun as a white disc against a dull blue sky. There are a few small and one large sunspots visible on its surface.

I have no idea what this tiny brown insect is. It is no more than 1mm long. It appears to be carrying around some rubbish it collected.

I found it crawling on a container of figs packed in Childers, Qld. It didn’t pose for the photos!

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Overhead view of a very small, brown insect, showing six legs and pincers, on a colour printed label. Each of the insect’s eyes is barely bigger than the halftone dots of the colour printing.

Front view of very small, brown insect with translucent legs, on crimped plastic edge of a clear plastic container.

Side view of very small, brown insect with translucent legs and abdomen, on the edge of a clear plastic container. It appears to be carrying a brown crumb and some white fluffy substance.

Inverted front view of a very small, brown insect with pincers raised, on a rough brown background. It appears to be carrying a brown crumb and some other white material.

Lewin’s Honeyeater showing off its tufts. Witches Falls track, Tamborine NP.

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Greenish small-medium bird perched on a branch, looking at the camera. It has pale yellow ear patches, which can be seen extending on both sides of its head.

Yesterday I saw one of your friends, @alexpsmith, at The Knoll, Tamborine NP.

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Large black cockatoo flying in a dive from a small, dead tree branch, against a cloudy sky.

A couple of Blue-banded Bees coming for some nectar on our Holy Basil plant.

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A bee with pale blue bands on its abdomen is close to landing on a small, pale purple flower with a few bright orange anthers. The flower is next to another in a whorl on a vertical stem that also bears some green, hairy leaves. There is another angled stem in the foreground and others in the background.

A bee with blue bands on its abdomen on a small, pale purple flower with a few bright orange anthers. The flower is next to another in a whorl on an angled stem that also bears some green, hairy leaves. There are other stems in the background.

@david I love the goofy long legs and feet on the Swamphen chicks!

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A Swamphen chick with legs and feet nearly twice its body length stepping on to a path from grass.

Golden-headed Cisticolas at Eagleby Wetlands yesterday.

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A small bird is shown in the distance, perched on an exposed stem above long grass, in morning light with a dark background.

A small, orange-brown bird is perched a large grass stem with other green grass in the background. It is shaking itself vigorously and its damp-looking body and tail feathers are splayed out in all directions.

These ants have recently invaded our kitchen, especially the pantry. They are tiny, as you can see from the 5-cent piece for comparison.

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Close up of 12 very small, pale brown ants crawling on a wall. There is part of an Australian 5-cent piece in view, showing that the ants are little more than one millimetre long.

A couple of Little Corellas having a scrap on UQ St Lucia campus.

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Two white parrots with blue skin around the eyes and pink around the bill having an apparent fight. They are in a garden of reeds with pine bark mulch.

Both birds have wings spread and bills open. The bird on the right of view is more upright and the bird on the left appears to be on its side or back.

Two white parrots with blue skin around the eyes and pink around the bill having an apparent fight on a lawn.

One bird has wings spread and is on top of the other, which is on its back on the ground. Their claws are grasping each others.

I didn’t photograph many birds yesterday at Mookin-Bah Reserve but there were plenty of butterflies.

One is an Orchard Swallowtail and the others are Common Crow butterflies, feasting on nectar.

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A large black and white butterfly is perched with wings spread on a vine with shiny green leaves. It is mostly black, with white bars near the margins of the wings, some fine white marks on the rear edges of the wings and a small red dot on the inside margin of each wing.

A medium-sized dark brown and white butterfly feeding on some pale yellow flowers of a plant with shiny green leaves. Its proboscis is inserted into a flower.

The wings are dark brown with rows of white spots of different sizes. The thorax is black with white dots.

A medium-sized dark brown and white butterfly in flight with wings slightly open. It is flying towards a plant with pale yellow flowers and shiny green leaves.

The wings are dark brown with rows of white spots of different sizes and the thorax is black with white dots. The feet are hanging down, the antennae are spread out in a Y shape and the proboscis is coiled up.

A medium-sized dark brown and white butterfly perched on some pale yellow flowers of a plant with shiny green leaves. Its proboscis is half extended.

The wings are dark brown with rows of white spots of different sizes. The thorax is black with white dots.

This Grey Butcherbird is one of a family that we feed in our front garden. I love the detail in the grey feathers.

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A black, white and grey mid-sized bird perched on the side of a shallow bird bath, with mottled green foliage in the background. The bird looks over its shoulder to the left of the view.

Just hangin’ around!

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A large bat hanging from a tree branch by one foot, in morning light against a blue sky. The bat has its wings wrapped around itself and few distinguishing features can be seen.

Young turk(ey). This one came up close so I took his portrait.

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Head and neck of an immature Australian Brush-turkey against a green background. The head and most of the neck have red skin with a light covering of short, fine black feathers. The lower neck has yellow skin.

Egret twist!

I made this GIF from a sequence of still photos of an egret shaking its wings. The photos were taken hand-held at 10 fps and are about 3 times slower in this animation.

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Egret launch! This morning at Weinam Creek wetland.

I am not sure which species this is.

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