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Grey Fantail (Rhipidura albiscapa)Observer
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Photos taken in poor light but I had no doubt of identification: heard its distinctive call and saw it better with eyes than the camera did...
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White-throated Honeyeater (Melithreptus albogularis)Observer
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White-throated Honeyeater (Melithreptus albogularis)Observer
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Red-backed Fairywren (Malurus melanocephalus)Observer
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Using a narrow strip of tall weed grass in a shallow gully, to move from one small area of habitat, to another. If this gully is cleared completely it will prevent the wrens from safely moving through the area.
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Grey Fantail (Rhipidura albiscapa)Observer
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Partly hidden by leaves and foliage but diagnostic features are visible; I am in no doubt of the identification; heard its call and saw it as it moved, even if my camera was not up to the challenge.
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Eastern Short-necked Turtle (Emydura macquarii)Observer
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Eastern Water Dragon (Intellagama lesueurii ssp. lesueurii)Observer
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Scaly-breasted Lorikeet (Trichoglossus chlorolepidotus)Observer
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Feeding on paperbark blossoms.
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Pacific Black Duck (Anas superciliosa)Observer
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Only one.
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Galah (Eolophus roseicapilla)Observer
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There were two; first in one tree then in another close by.
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Genus TetragnathaObserver
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With web strung between flower-spikes of Persicaria species, at the edge of a little creek.
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Knotweeds, Smartweeds, and Waterpeppers (Genus Persicaria)Observer
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Same little population shown in a previous posting (photos taken earlier today) but I wasn't sure whether the photos taken then were good enough so when I came back past the same spot later on I took more in hopes that some will provide enough detail for accurate identification.
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Knotweeds, Smartweeds, and Waterpeppers (Genus Persicaria)Observer
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If this turns out to be one of the native Persicaria, I will be keeping an eye on it; because even if a local native species the odds are pretty good that it will be sprayed to death sometime soon and/or dug up and dumped, by 'Urban Utilities' busily engaged in 'cleaning out the creek'.
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Common Silkpod (Parsonsia straminea)Observer
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I give this plant (self-sown) less than a month before Brisbane City Council pounces on it with gallons of herbicide and kills it stone dead. They're quite happy for their el cheapo mowing contractors to steadily reduce 90 percent of the 'park' lawns all around to a dismal monoculture of invasive dyschoriste depressa; but cannot abide to permit a local native habitat plant and butterfly host plant to live.
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White-browed Scrubwren (Sericornis frontalis)Observer
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Mistletoebird (Dicaeum hirundinaceum)Observer
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Photo taken at a great distance but the (male) bird's diagnostic colour pattern is still visible. At the time I also heard its distinctive call. First photo is a cropped version of the second which is the original. There are numerous mistletoe plants here, high in the canopy of a large eucalyptus tree.
