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View from the balcony at our (temprary) holiday home.
Looking South from Port Fairy, Victoria, Australia.
Next stop, Antarctica.

 
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Seen on my drive home. I think it was tracking its dinner in a thicket of trees separating the street from a golf course.

 
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A young Australian Magpie on our balcony last weekend.

 
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Death blooms; beautiful and a bit sad.

These agave’s have been at the end of my street for a couple decades now. Sadly they only flower once in their lifetime, pre-death. The plants themselves were about 2m tall before the blossom and droop of the leaves. The blossoms are towering above the power pole so 8-10m tall currently.
(Homeowner has A LOT of work ahead to remove them)
 
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My doves from a few pages back love what weed seeds that are left, and maybe a few tiny pebbles for their gizzard.

Still work to do with this pathway maintenance, and that dove was probably thinking, that Human is nuts! It’s as hot as H*ll out here.

A work in progress 😎

 
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We have a colony of horny toads at my house. Pesticides have devastated their numbers in the past few decades; so when I first moved in (about twenty years ago) and found out we had a colony here I swore I would never spray my yard. We have a robust ant hill in the back, and the horny toad colony has thrived over the years. When she was little my daughter was terrified I would run one over when I mowed, so she would go around the yard and catch as many as she could before I would mow. Once I had a suitably large part of the yard mown, she would release them over to that spot. I still get a kick out of finding them in the yard and have way too many pictures of them saved on my computer. Yes I'm aware that their proper name is the Texas Horned Lizard, but I tend to prefer colloquial names.