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Bird lover living in Canberra, on Ngunnawal country. Find solace in the beautiful posts of other nature lovers. Love is love 🏳️‍🌈 #birds #wildlife
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ralandy02 @ralandy02.bsky.social · Nov 9
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A pair of Double-barred finches for today’s theme #Borbs
A concrete pedestal bird bath surrounded by Correa shrubbery and eucalypt mulch. There are a pair of tiny birds on the edge of the bath which have soft brown backs, black and white spotted wing feathers and distinctive white faces and bibs highlighted by narrow black lines and on breast and face. Their beaks are silver-grey and their eyes are black.
September 25, 2026 at 7:22 AM
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Incoming storm on the Croatian coast. #birds #wildlife
September 19, 2026 at 6:52 AM
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My son is camping on the coast in Croatia. They’ve had some interesting weather! #birds #wildlife
Clear azure seawater with coastal green plants in the foreground and massive banks of storm clouds above. Beautiful azure sea topped by massive banks of incoming storm clouds. Banks of dark storm clouds incoming over blue/green sea. Banks of storm clouds over a flat blue sea.
September 19, 2026 at 6:27 AM
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It’s hard to get the undies clean! Our resident Crimson Rosellas #birds #wildlife
A pedestal concrete birdbath with two bright red and blue parrots partially submerged in rippled water. The background is a carpet of eucalyptus leaves and green leaved correas.
September 17, 2026 at 2:43 AM
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Mum Brushtail Possum eating carrot on a plate in a potted lemon tree on our balcony. Junior is hanging on precariously whilst upside down! Not a great shot but I needed something to cheer me up. #birds #wildlife
Plant pot in foreground with some lemon tree and Australian native foliage. An Australian Brushtail Possum on the edge of the pot leaning in to eat something in the pot. The grey furred possum has an incongruously placed furred leg holding on to its left side. Junior possum is obviously good at holding on! Night footage so colours and resolution not brilliant.
September 11, 2026 at 9:31 AM
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It’s Spring! #birds #wildlife
August 24, 2026 at 7:08 AM
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Meta told to pay another $567m in New Mexico child safety lawsuit
A New Mexico judge ordered the Instagram, Facebook and Whatsapp parent company to pay another $567m for the way it has harmed children.
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August 7, 2026 at 4:52 AM
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Birdlife Australia has just announced that local transmission of H5 Birdflu has occurred in Australian Greater Crested Terns on the South Australian coast. It feels like waiting for the apocalypse. #birds #wildlife
July 29, 2026 at 7:25 AM
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A dear little male Australian Golden Whistler visiting our winter birdbath. #birds #wildlife
A concrete pedestal birdbath surrounded by leaf litter and Australian native shrubbery in greens and browns. On the left edge of the birdbath is a tiny splash of gold, an Australian Golden Whistler male. He has a white bib, surrounded by jet black on his head and below the bib, golden breast feathers, olive back and dark eye and beak.
July 20, 2026 at 6:36 AM
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A bit of a wild and woolly day in Canberra today, a ‘bad feather’ day. #birds #wildlife
July 13, 2026 at 4:49 AM
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#ArtDD2026
Baby harp seal

From a lovely 📷 by @ariaa.bsky.social, with thanks.

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Watercolour of chubby little seal, facing forwards but head up and turned towards the left, with pale pink-white fur, brown around the muzzle, and a huge brown eye.
July 7, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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Our resident Crimson Rosellas enjoying their bath even though we’ve had a frosty morning! #birds #wildlife
July 7, 2026 at 12:49 AM
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A crisp morning in Canberra today #birds #wildlife
Clear morning skyline with tones of blue and gold. A still lake (Lake Burley Griffin) reflecting a stately building on the far side, the National Library of Australia. Further to the right is Commonwealth Avenue Bridge. On the near side in the shade a thick frost covers the grassy verge.
July 7, 2026 at 12:13 AM
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Sunset tonight in the Nation’s Capital, Black Mountain Tower in the distance. #birds #wildlife
Canberra city overtopped by grey clouds highlighted by brilliant orange and gold with a low mountain ridge and a spiked tower in the distance on the left.
July 5, 2026 at 7:28 AM
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From last Spring just near Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra #birds #wildlife #Quackers
July 4, 2026 at 3:53 AM
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The H5N1 virus has finally been confirmed in five cases of migratory seabirds in Western, Southern and Eastern Australia. I can’t begin to imagine what I’d do if it reaches the beautiful birds I share my environment with. #birds #wildlife
July 3, 2026 at 7:34 AM
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Winter over Canberra the National Capital
Evening view over Lake Burley Griffin looking towards the Brindabella Range of hills. Dark clouds in the foreground,a rim of gold below and a soft grey rim of grey-blue to the horizon.
June 29, 2026 at 7:44 AM
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My son is on a morning hike in Slovenia and saw this chap #birds #wildlife
A grey/brown gravel surface with a very impressive black beetle with what appear to be pincers
June 24, 2026 at 5:23 AM
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A beautiful old Yellow Box eucalypt in our front garden in Canberra. For #ThickTrunkTuesday
Large eucalypt trunk with rough bark, and five branches also with rough bark, against a blue sky, looking up from the base of the tree.
June 23, 2026 at 8:08 AM
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At my kitchen window. #headshots #birds #wildlife
May 22, 2026 at 9:36 AM
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#ProtectTheBees. 👍
petramichaela.bsky.social Petra Michaela @petramichaela.bsky.social · May 22
The little artist of nature, who paints the world with golden dust. Every small effort creates something beautiful. ✨💛🐝
May 22, 2026 at 9:14 AM
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At our kitchen door. #birds #wildlife
March 23, 2026 at 10:06 AM
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Sunset last night looking over Lake Burely Griffin, Canberra. #birds #wildlife
March 22, 2026 at 10:50 PM
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A younger Pied Currawong exploring the birdbath. #birds #wildlife
March 21, 2026 at 3:49 AM
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Rainbow Lorikeets bathing in our birdbath for the first time. Not sure how I feel about that, they’re bossy. #birds #wildlife
February 21, 2026 at 5:29 AM