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David de Groot 📸📸
@david@photog.social
David de Groot 📸📸
@david@photog.social

Some critters I photographed on campus on Wednesday.

#EasternWaterDragon
#RainbowBeeEater
#LittleCorella

#AustralianWildlife #WildOz #Bird #Lizard

An adult male Eastern Water Dragon perched on a concrete wall. Part basking, part occupying his territory. This photo shows the front half of the lizard, head tilted up to better display his throat colouring, which has faded a bit since breeding season. He's a green-grey colour with yellow-lined black patches. His back has wide black patches and short grey spikes, to give the impression of larger spikes than he really has. Two Rainbow Bee Eaters perched on a stick. They are looking intently in opposite directions, searching for flying insects which they'll hunt. There's a dirt embankment behind them (where they have a nesting hole). Two Little Corellas (medium sized white cockatoos with yellow underwings), facing each other. The left one is meekly sitting on the branch, the right one has its beak open and wings spread wide. Two Little Corellas at the top of a palm tree. One is perched on a palm leaf stem (devoid of actual leaves) and has turned hits head upwards to angrily screech at another corella passing close overhead. This is his palm stalk, thank you very much.
David de Groot 📸📸
@david@photog.social

'tis the night before Christmas, and there's a chorus of frogs outside as my eyelids droop. I guess it might be time to head to bed.

A tiny Eastern Dwarf Tree Frog with a Santa Hat photoshopped on to its head, sitting on a single curving reed leaf. In the upper left corner are the words Merry Christmas in a blackletter type font, but red in colour.
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Hang in there, it's almost Christmas!

#AustralianWildlife #Bird #WildOz #LittleCorella

A medium white cockatoo (Little Corella) hanginf from a palm frond core upside down by its beak and claws.
David de Groot 📸📸
@david@photog.social

New album just dropped.

(as an aside, do you know it's been 30 years this year since Silverchair released their debut album, Frogstomp)

#AustralianWildlife #WildOz #EasternDwarfTreeFrog #frog

Three tiny green frogs on a curved reed leaf. At the leaf peak, the three frogs sit as if posing for an album cover with the lead frog being just over the peak and angled to the right. “Drummer frog” in the back only has its head visible and is out of focus.
David de Groot 📸📸
@david@photog.social

We had three wallabies in the backyard this morning. Seems to be the female with joey (trying very hard to hide behind the weatherstation pole) and a male keeping watch behind her.

#AustralianWildlife #WildOz #SwampWallaby #joey

Three wallabies in a grassy area, with one wallaby carrying a joey in its pouch who is holding a tried leaf. A metal pole with a wildlife camera attached is visible in the foreground, surrounded by greenery and some foliage in the background.
David de Groot 📸📸
@david@photog.social

A Lewin's Honeyeater perched on a green branch in a patch of sun.

#AustralianWildlife #WildOz #Bird #LewinsHoneyeater

A mostly olive green bird with black cap, yellow crescent behind the eye and yellow gape, perched on a thin green branch in the sun. It is looking to camera left.
David de Groot 📸📸
@david@photog.social

There were seven #EasternDwarfTreeFrog s on the reeds yesterday morning. Here's two (well one in focus, and one blurred behind).

#AustralianWildlife #WildOz #UQ #frog

A small green frog with its legs tucked up under it, sitting vertically on a reed leaf. It has a dark strip through the eye and pale underbelly.
David de Groot 📸📸
@david@photog.social

One of the many Brown Thornbills that were calling the back yard this afternoon.

#LittleBrownBird #Bird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #BrownThornbill

A tiny bird who is mostly brownish, with a pale yellow underside and russet cap. It has red iris' and a short sharp black beak. Pictured here standing on a branch with orange dots on it, and facing to the right. A tiny bird who is mostly brownish, with a pale yellow underside and russet cap. It has red iris' and a short sharp black beak. Pictured here far facing the camera, looking quizzical.
David de Groot 📸📸
@david@photog.social

I was stuck at work this afternoon for longer than expected and so I used that time for a spot of birding.

I found some Masked Lapwing chicks, a family of Bush-Stone Curlews and a ridiculous Little Corella.

#Bird #australianWildlife #WildOz #bushstoneCurlew #maskedlapwing #littlecorella

Three Bush Stone Curlews sittings and standing in a patch of late afternoon sun at the base of a pine tree. One of two Masked Lapwing chicks on grass. They are fluffy white bodied birds with brown mottled wings and cap and slightly long legs. One of two Masked Lapwing chicks on grass. They are fluffy white bodied birds with brown mottled wings and cap and slightly long legs. A Little Corella ( a small cockatoo ) on a dead branch of a Jacaranda tree, wings spread out and up, beak open mid-call. Behind it there are living jacaranda branches with green leaves and purple flowers.
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A pair of Little Corellas watching me watch them this afternoon.

#bird #LittleCorella #AustralianWildlife #WildOz

Two smaller Cockatoo adjacent birds on a branch. They are white, with the hint of pink underneath on the chest. Some pink/red at the base of the beak and blue around the eyes. Both birds are looking down at the camera.