Tropical #cyclone #Fina intensifies to category two and could hit NT coast on Friday
If it makes impact on Friday, it would be the earliest cyclone of the season to make landfall in #Australia since 1973
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/19/tropical-cyclone-fina-northern-territory-darwin?
Tropical #cyclone #Fina intensifies to category two and could hit NT coast on Friday
If it makes impact on Friday, it would be the earliest cyclone of the season to make landfall in #Australia since 1973
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/19/tropical-cyclone-fina-northern-territory-darwin?
Bird of the day, an oystercatcher photographed skimming the shoreline of the Whitsunday Islands National Park. Magic. #BirdsOfMastodon #BirdPhotography #Australia
Bird of the day, an oystercatcher photographed skimming the shoreline of the Whitsunday Islands National Park. Magic. #BirdsOfMastodon #BirdPhotography #Australia
So last week I asked Kiwis and Aussies if people prefer their fairy bread with margarine or butter, crusts on or crusts off, squares vs triangles.
It turns out that I'd stumbled upon one of the great issues of our time.
The Great Fairy Bread Debate of 2025 is still happening. The most interesting revelations culled from VERY FIRM opinions are:
Apparently the fairies cannot enter the bread if you are a complete monster and neglect to cut the bread, leaving all four crusts. Do not do this or fear Great Judgement and potentially tutting. (Much worse than it sounds. You will feel shame.)
Squares are a travesty, unless they are not. A diplomatic suggestion that squares are just two triangles back to back does not work and will be met with great uproar and virtual snorting.
Butter is the Kiwi preference, unless feeding vegans. If one is feeding vegan fairies, one must check the labels of the margarine for non vegan infiltrators. If spotted, one must tut loudly to let them know they've been spotted. (Please see above point.)
If one is feeding their fairies butter, one must get the spreadable kind, otherwise fear the event of Butter Lumps and Torn Bread. There is no coming back from this. You have failed your fairies.
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Little Wattlebird (Anthochaera chrysoptera) feeding on Grevillea, Central Coast, NSW.
#birds #birdwatching
#nature #wildlife #australia #inaturalist #photography #darktable
Little Wattlebird (Anthochaera chrysoptera) feeding on Grevillea, Central Coast, NSW.
#birds #birdwatching
#nature #wildlife #australia #inaturalist #photography #darktable
The Australian brushturkey is a wonderful feathery weirdo. And this one tried to steal my toast. We had long conversations about the errors of its ways.
Brushturkeys are one of the species of birds who incubate their eggs in huge mounds of plant material, that they then tend to keep the temperature in the mound perfect for the eggs. When you watch one constantly adding and taking away stuff, you wonder if it wouldn't be MUCH less stressful to just sit on the eggs.
The yellow sack at their necks also inflates when they get excited, like the dangly nose thing of American turkeys (forgot what it is called).
#photography #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #travelphotography #australia #australianbirds
Australian bush-stone curlews make the most eerie sounds at night. (You can listen to recordings online) They are also first class starers.
#photography #wildlifephotography #travelphotography #australia #australianwildlife
#australianbirds
𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬
✧ grey-headed honeyeater ✧
The grey-headed honeyeater (Ptilotula keartlandi) is a species of bird in the honeyeater family, Meliphagidae. It is endemic to Australia, where it has an extensive range covering much of the central arid and semi-arid areas of the continent. It mostly frequents eucalyptus scrub and woodlands in stony hill country ...
#Meliphagidae #Australia #NorthernTerritory #Mitchell #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey-headed_honeyeater
The Australian brushturkey is a wonderful feathery weirdo. And this one tried to steal my toast. We had long conversations about the errors of its ways.
Brushturkeys are one of the species of birds who incubate their eggs in huge mounds of plant material, that they then tend to keep the temperature in the mound perfect for the eggs. When you watch one constantly adding and taking away stuff, you wonder if it wouldn't be MUCH less stressful to just sit on the eggs.
The yellow sack at their necks also inflates when they get excited, like the dangly nose thing of American turkeys (forgot what it is called).
#photography #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #travelphotography #australia #australianbirds
Australian bush-stone curlews make the most eerie sounds at night. (You can listen to recordings online) They are also first class starers.
#photography #wildlifephotography #travelphotography #australia #australianwildlife
#australianbirds
𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬
✧ grey-headed honeyeater ✧
The grey-headed honeyeater (Ptilotula keartlandi) is a species of bird in the honeyeater family, Meliphagidae. It is endemic to Australia, where it has an extensive range covering much of the central arid and semi-arid areas of the continent. It mostly frequents eucalyptus scrub and woodlands in stony hill country ...
#Meliphagidae #Australia #NorthernTerritory #Mitchell #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey-headed_honeyeater
Where silence walks in perfect lines.
Seppeltsfield Winery, South Australia.
© 𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓡𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓼 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝓚𝓮𝓿 𝓟𝓮𝓲𝓻𝓬𝓮.
#photo #photography #australia #southaustralia #Seppeltsfield #BarossaValley #Winery #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Monochrome
Where silence walks in perfect lines.
Seppeltsfield Winery, South Australia.
© 𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓡𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓼 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝓚𝓮𝓿 𝓟𝓮𝓲𝓻𝓬𝓮.
#photo #photography #australia #southaustralia #Seppeltsfield #BarossaValley #Winery #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Monochrome
Cloud Drift: Misty Mountains Over Macquarie Harbour.
Macquarie Harbour, Tasmania, Australia.
© 𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓡𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓼 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝓚𝓮𝓿 𝓟𝓮𝓲𝓻𝓬𝓮.
#photo #photography #australia #tasmania #MacquarieHarbour #WestCoastTasmania #MountainView #Foggy #LandscapePhotography #TasmanianWilderness #WildTasmania
Cloud Drift: Misty Mountains Over Macquarie Harbour.
Macquarie Harbour, Tasmania, Australia.
© 𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓡𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓼 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝓚𝓮𝓿 𝓟𝓮𝓲𝓻𝓬𝓮.
#photo #photography #australia #tasmania #MacquarieHarbour #WestCoastTasmania #MountainView #Foggy #LandscapePhotography #TasmanianWilderness #WildTasmania
Some evil changeling ant? No! This is an ant-mimic spider (Myrmarachne sp.), and an ant has just drawn its attention!
#WildOz #OzInverts #MacroPhotography #Meanjin #Brisbane #Australia #Nature #Arthropod #Spider #JumpingSpider #AntMimicSpider #Myrmarachne
Some evil changeling ant? No! This is an ant-mimic spider (Myrmarachne sp.), and an ant has just drawn its attention!
#WildOz #OzInverts #MacroPhotography #Meanjin #Brisbane #Australia #Nature #Arthropod #Spider #JumpingSpider #AntMimicSpider #Myrmarachne