Leg. 🐢👀

I love spending time with Scarlet Macaws. They're such entertaining, funny birds. They form very tight pair bonds; you never see a single macaw fly over, you always see two. Before bedtime, they perch next to each other and preen one another. #CostaRica #osapeninsula #birds #macaws

Bottle https://collections.artsmia.org/art/69/

Irises at Horikiri (Horikiri no hanashobu), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)" https://www.artic.edu/artworks/34097/

Bottle with Design of Iris https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/26169/

Censer in the Form of Two Puppies https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/54970/

Hat https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/38414

Standing Guanyin https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/3929

In case anyone's wondering, this is what a pink sea fan looks like when it's not entangled in marine debris (see earlier post). This specimen's probably nearly 30 years old. #Eunicellaverrucosa

Zen Eccentrics

White Mice 🐁

Rooster https://collections.artsmia.org/art/118426/

Hawthorn Twins #Bonsai

"Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself." -A Wrinkle In Time Madeleine L'Engle #BookWormSat

#CatLife lesson #17 Friends come in all colours, shapes & sizes #caturday #cats

Feijoa #FlowersOfTheDay

Photographer Kathrin Swoboda captured amazing images of a red wing blackbird's song, visible via the bird's breath in cold air and early light #WomensArt

#BirdOfTheDay theme is #MorningLight so here's a Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (Cacatua galerita) eating an African Tulip seedpod (nasty introduced tree that kills bees). #Brisbane #Australia #birds #wildlife #birdpic #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #BirdPhotography #Photography #EastCoastKin

"You seem happier" Thanks, I deleted all my emails and went to look at birds instead.

Many birds nest in this beautiful old tree, and it's one of my favourites. Dusk is a good time for listening to them prepare for bed time

One of our escorts who saw us home after visiting Sky Haus to see the ferns

New goal @banditelli.org, we'll get butterflies one way or another!

Traffic on Sutherland Crescent stopped on a Friday to allow ducks to cross this busy street! Gotta admire drivers that did this 👌❤️

Our friend joined us on #walkies and posed on the hand rails of a pedestrian walkway.

Toy surprise and delight, four of our friends joined Bernie the Elder Cockatiel and I on #walkies at twilight ... 2 Sulphur Crested Cockatoo and 2 Crimson Rosella ❤️❤️

Fernery at Sky Haus, an apartment block in northern Canberra Australia.

The sugar gums are flowering and the air smells like apples

"This is the first time we can say with certainty that European wildcats lived in prehistoric Ireland" A stunning discovery and more evidence that there's a lot left to discover about Ireland's ecology! www.rte.ie/news/munster...

Rewilding in Wicklow! A little support from authorities for the eradication of non-native trees and plants would go a long way to encourage private landowners to resuscitate important old forests like this one 🌳

If we close the Bird Cafe now, there will be enough light for #walkies for Bernie the Elder Cockatiel. Then our Crimson Rosella couple came by to sing and snack.....

Young love.... I think this is their first season together. Tender, gentle and attentive to each other. Young Sulphur Crested Cockatoo couple.

View of the Crimson Rosella!

🌱 #flowersonFriday As we head to the darkest part of the year, a reminder that spring and summer will return. I am lucky that I have endless pictures of flowers and gardens that I can look at. Hope this one brings you some joy.

Crimson Rosella, seventh bird species at the Bird Cafe today

Discussion among Australians about food supplies

Cockatoo pressuring elderly Cockatiel for seed!

You got snacks?

Eyes off the seed!

~ adorning the shore ~

It's #FernFriday

Good morning #Flyday

Hello #PurpleFriday

Haha, I remember when these diagenetic crystal clusters were spotted by Curiosity in Gale in 2022 and people went nuts

Magnolia bud

Australian Tree Fern for #fernfriday