Regent Parrots eating wattle seed, collecting Pine seed, a “sphexish” wasp and the return of the Black-shouldered Kite.

At this time of year, the Hopbush is looking spectacular. I have mixed feelings about this shrub though. On one hand, it hosts lots of cool insects and birds and is useful for erosion control. But it can be invasive, encroaching and then dominating vegetation communities.

The Poached Egg Daisies were spectacular in Spring 2020, but they’ve finished now and the white fluff is everywhere.

These colorful birds migrate to the southern states in Spring and Summer.

This rare, slow-growing wattle is long-lived and can grow to an immense size.

The Little Button-quail bred in the grasslands on Raakajlim in 2020. Very exciting to see them.

The Zebra Finches are here in numbers which means the Porcupine Grass seed is ripe. Porcupine Grass (Triodia scariosa), sometimes called Spinifex, has an interesting story …