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Here be Dragons

30/6/2019

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I haven’t yet planted out this year’s strawberry runners—I still have to prepare the bed!—but strawberry flowers can be dangerous places for small creatures. My recent post about Lacewings included a photo of a larva laden with trophies of past victims searching a strawberry flower for its next meal.
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I saw this little bee fly checking out another strawberry flower for lurking predators.
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“Plenty of pollen, looks safe… I’ll go closer”
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Owls itch too!

23/6/2019

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​I recently saw another Powerful Owl, this time in Centennial Park, and the contrast with the one I saw last year was interesting.  While the first owl was in peaceful woodland and quite relaxed, this one was in a park with a lot going on, and was perceptibly more alert and watchful.  First, it kept looking towards the café where people were having coffee:
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Cockies

16/6/2019

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I have mixed feelings about Sulphur-crested Cockatoos (Cacatua gelerita). I rarely photograph them because they’re so common, not only in the wild, but also as pets and in zoos.  Around Sydney they’re as ubiquitous as rats, noisy as buzz-saws, and destructive as borers. However, they are also intelligent, lively and entertaining, and can be attractive in their quieter moments. Such was the pair I saw recently in Lane Cove River National Park.

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Lacewings: Larval Headhunters

9/6/2019

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​My last post began with the friarbird catching something that looked like an adult lacewing.  This reminded me that I had some earlier photos of lacewings (Chrysopidae), such as this one of a typical adult green lacewing.
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Blue cheeks and white plumes

2/6/2019

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Just behind the tiny Uniting Church at Glen Alice in the Capertee valley is a patch of trees, mostly eucalypts. Here, a Little Friarbird (Philomen citreogularis), with its distinctive blue patches below its eyes, flies in to check for insects.  It quickly spots something and pounces.
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    This blog is my record of interesting wildlife encounters, while walking locally on Sydney’s Lower North Shore, or further afield.

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    Rick Evans


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