Heliconia???

 

When you bring lettuce out of the garden it is wise to carefully check for stowaways and I found two today when checking a Cos lettuce. When this Dwarf Tree Frog Litoria fallax was evicted from its abode it leaped for what looked like an alternative on the table; whoops somethings not right!
After a photo shoot it was pleased to then be relocated outside to a new home  amongst lily leaves.

Wildflower wander

Dianella caerulea

White Fingers Caladenia catenata

Hardenbergia violacea

 Gristle fern Blechnum cartilagineum

Rough Maidenhair fern Adiantum hispidulum

Rasp fern Doodia aspera

Indigofera australis

Dusky Coral Pea Kennedia rubicunda

Pink Fingers Caladenia carnea

I thought I would do a short wander through a section of our forest area to check out the wildflowers that spring has brought into bloom. Our garden has lots of native plants as well as exotics and is a picture at present but I restricted my photos to the flowers that are indigenous to the area.

Hibertia diffusa

Clematis aristata

Lomandra longifolia

 

Buttercup Ranunculus lappaceus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bees at a wild hive in Eucalyptus

Don herbison Evans helped me out with yesterday's moth identification; not a woolly bear although quite woolly, but Iropoca rotundata.

Very woolly

This moth was on the flyscreen last night so popped it inside for a photo. I haven't been able to identify it as yet but I think it is one of the Australian Woolly Bear family ANTHELIDAE.

When I took the photo head on I didn't notice the antennae but when I downloaded onto the computer I was struck by the resemblance to bat's ears.

Not quite coloured

With breeding season underway for our feathered friends, many of the males are getting their finest outfits on to impress the ladies. This little character getting his new gear on but has a bit to go yet before he will be turning the hens heads.

As a male Red-backed Wren Malurus melanocephalus his full breeding plumage will have him dressed all in black except for his scarlet back . The Red-backed Wren is one of the three fairy wrens and the most unmistakable fairy wrens that we have visiting the property although not in very many numbers as we are at the southern end of their range. This extends from around Broome in WA around the wetter areas of northern Australia and down the east coast.

Unearthed

Working in the vegetable garden today getting beds ready for spring planting and I managed to dig up a Wrinkled, or Eastern Burrowing Toadlet Uperoleia rugosa.

As the second of their common names suggests these characters spend a bit of time underground, particularly during winter and emerge after warm spring and summer rains. They are found through southern Queensland and much of NSW.