Category: Guest Author
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Such is life…
Author Koh Lin â—¦ Such is life… Is a spoken phrase, that comes from the English translation of the French phrase “C’est la vie”. This in turn is said to be from the Italian phrase “Cosi va’l mondo!” (in the book A… Continue reading
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A life of music
Author Koh Lin â—¦ I was never musical… Whilst there was one time, an attempt by my parents to give me piano lessons, that sadly failed — yet music did play a special part in my life. In the drawer… Continue reading
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Uriah Heep… The Magician’s Birthday
Author Koh Lin â—¦ One of the many things my father did, as we were growing up, he would carefully store away parts of our youth. In one recent discovery we found among my vinyl record collection, my father had… Continue reading
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labour of love… spiders and prey
Author Koh Lin â—¦ In my labour of love… series, we look at spiders in action. Whilst some species of spiders spin webs to trap and capture their prey, other spider species actively hunt for their prey. They feed on… Continue reading
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labour of love… spiders
Author Koh Lin â—¦ In my labour of love… series, we look at the spiders, from the big and the small, and the bold and the beautiful. A diverse group, spiders play an important role in the eco-system, whether out… Continue reading
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The curse of aurifrons…
Author Gary Taylor â—¦ Finally! Perhaps… 😄 So, the bush excursions have been pretty much a waste of time lately… But on the bright side (or so I thought 😄), my Eucalyptus platypus burst into flower a couple of weeks… Continue reading
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In silent slumber sleep…
Author Koh Lin â—¦ I have often found some of our smaller denizen in silent slumber, to all appearance no longer living… yet… on retrieving them from their watery grave, whilst some were deceased, many revived… and I have those captured moments,… Continue reading
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It stayed for a pic…
Author Jan Martin â—¦ Three Variegated Dtella (Gehyra variegata)… two images were in my bathroom, the third was captured during the day. I had actually found this one trapped in my empty mop bucket, so had tipped it out onto… Continue reading
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Underground Aphids
Author Mark Hanlon â—¦ I was pulling out a few weeds on the farm just inland of Lancelin a few weeks ago and some tiny green nodules on the roots of one of them made me look closer. Taking a… Continue reading
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Cuckoo… cuckoo…
Author Koh Lin â—¦ Growing up, I often associated cuckoos with birds that eject the eggs or juveniles out of the nest, to be replaced by the eggs of the Channel-billed Cuckoo. Now I know there are other creatures that are known… Continue reading
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Scarlett popping a platypus cap…
Author Gary Taylor â—¦ Hyleoides zonalis rufocinctus (also known by the less common name “spider mimic” bee, named for its web-like nest construction 😅) series, Scarlett popping a platypus cap to get to the fresh nectar and pollen… 🙂 Now… Continue reading
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the wind has been blowing it’s guts out…
Author Gary Taylor â—¦ Finally! Perhaps… 😄 Ok, so the wind has been blowing it’s guts out for the last four days solid making it really hard to get any decent pics, and I’ve seen a bunch of gorgeous bees… Continue reading