Posted in Other creatures on Feb 26th, 2011
It must be about forty five years since I saw my first swordgrass brown butterfly, and the memory of that sighting is still vivid today. On that occasion I was fighting my way down a remote mountain creek searching for a lost girl, and it’s interesting how a relatively insignificant thing like a butterfly can [...]
Posted in General nature. on Feb 24th, 2011
is always interesting even if it doesn’t go according to plan. Some new territory for me; beside the track shapely short-trunked manna gums with spreading crowns are heavy in blossom. My navigational error puts us into a shallow gully south of where we intended to be, grey thrush calling, a mating pair of crane flies [...]
A blog about the natural world of Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. Birds, insects, wildflowers, and anything else that poses for the camera.