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David de Groot 📸📸
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Photographer, foodie, Dad Joke aficionado from Cedar Creek, Qld, Australia. Mostly a Canon EOS system shooter with some fairly decent lenses.

These days I shoot mostly #AustralianWildlife


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Tandem Turkeys.

A pair of young Australian Brush Turkeys walking together.

#WildOz #AustralianWildlife #AustralianBrushTurkey #bird

Small (bantam sized) brown and black turkeys standing next to each other walking on grass.
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Some of the tiny Eastern Dwarf Tree Frogs I found this morning in the usual spot (counted 10).

#frog #EasternDwarfTreeFrog #AustralianWildlife #WildOz

A tiny green frog that has partially turned brown (long its back and forelimbs). It is sitting on a green and brown reed leaf. A tiny green Eastern Dwarf Tree Frog sitting on a reed leaf were it crosses over another. X marks the spot of where this frog is at. Side view of a tiny green Eastern Dwarf Tree Frog perched on a near-vertical reed leaf. Another tiny green Eastern Dwarf Tree Frog on a bent reed leaf.
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I wandered out to check if there was more to trim along the driveway, and instead, spotted an Emerald Dove.

So I went back inside and grabbed the camera, and to my surprise, it was still there when I came back.

#bird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #EmeraldDove

A small brown dove with emerald coloured wings walking on a bitumen driveway. A small brown dove with bright emerald wings perched in a tree. The sun is making the wings shine in a metallic way. A small brown dove with emerald wings shining in the sun. It is perched on a branch of a tree. It also has pink legs/feet and an orange beak. A small brown dove, walking on a bitumen driveway. It has emerald green wings.
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A Little Corella checking me out on campus today.

#Bird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #LittleCorella

A medium sized cockatoo with blue rimmed eyes and pink highlights around the beak. It is on a lichen encrusted branch facing the camera and looking at a jaunty angle. A medium size white cockatoo with a blue rim around the eye, pink around the base of the beak and pink flecks on the chest. It is facing obliquely left of frame.
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On campus for the first day of this year and I can confirm the tiny frogs are still there.

This one was particularly tiny (approx. 12mm long)

#AustralianWildlife #WildOz #EasternDwarfTreeFrog #TinyFrogTuesday

A very small frog with a green back and brown side-trim and lighter belly on a reed leaf. There is a vertical reed leaf on the left of frame that bends in a diagonal near the top left corner down towards the middle right. The leaf with the frog on it originates in the bottom left corner and terminates in the top right.
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While down the road earlier checking out the creek after the recent rains, I found this little fellow hugging a twig upside down.

It's a young Eastern Water Dragon, and was probably snoozing until I tramped by.

#AustralianWildlife #WildOz #lizard #EasternWaterDragon #reptile

A small Eastern Water Dragon, upside down on a twig, hugging it. Its tail is draped over a fork.
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Lots of Rainbow Lorikeets around this morning at home. There are several large trees flowering in the area and each one is laden with noisy Rainbow Lorikeets.

#bird #parrot #RainbowLorikeet #AustralianWildlife #WildOz

Two brightly coloured parrots in a tree with some delicate white flowers. The parrots have red beaks, blue heads, red-orange chest, blue belly, green wings and tail. The front half of a Rainbow Lorikeet poking out from the foliage surrounded by green-white flowers. You can see its red beak and eye, blue head, yellow and green neck, red/orange/yellow chest. A Rainbow Lorikeet on a flower laden branch. It is reaching down towards some flowers, beak open, tongue out, ready to slurp some nectar.
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Introduced pest, yes, but still cute.

Fun fact, in Queensland, you can be fined up to $80,650 for keeping or feeding a rabbit if you do not have a rabbit keeping permit.

#EuropeanRabbit #Bunny #WildOz

A brown wild rabbit on a field of low grass.
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Three different Thornbills on the same property.

A #BrownThornbill (red eye)
A #BuffRumpedThornbill (white eye on a stick)
and a #StriatedThornbill (on a green metal arbour support).

#Bird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz

A tiny Brown Thornbill. As the name suggests, it's brown (well on top anyway) and has a small pointy beak (like a thorn). Its underside is grey/white with grey striations. A Buff-rumped Thornbill perched on a stick. It has a pale underside, brown upper and a white/grey eye. Once again, a dark short thorn-like beak. A Striated Thornbill on a green wire support. It has a stripy cheek, pale striated underside and grey/brown eye.
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Also, a collection of Rosellas from this morning.

A pair of Eastern Rosellas, and some Crimson Rosellas.

#bird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #EasternRosella #CrimsonRosella

An Eastern Rosella perched on a piece of timber. The bird has a red head, neck and chest, white cheeks, yellow belly, greenish rump; blue, black and green wings. Looking up at an Eastern Rosella in the morning sunlight. The colours from the underneath are: Red head and neck and chest, white cheeks, yellow belly, greenish rump, red base-of-tail, pale blue tail (obscured by a branch) Crimson Rosella in a bush. It is mostly red, but with blue cheeks, and blue/black wings and tail. Juvenile Crimson Rosella up close. The head and body is mostly green but with patches of the adult colours coming through (blue cheeks, red cap and patchy red chest).