Nature Watch, Your Flora and Fauna Photos and Stories

Fallout Boy · Nov 15, 2025

lindo · Nov 20, 2025

My neighbour was bike riding around Canberra's lake this morning and came across these......

JimInOz · Nov 20, 2025

lindo
My neighbour was bike riding around Canberra's lake this morning and came across these......

Politicians?

Walrus · Nov 23, 2025

Damn this fellow ain’t seen enough humans to be scared, or maybe to many as she’s in a park. Hopefully she stays around here

Felix_La_PuBelle · Nov 23, 2025

Walking through a local nature spot and saw a small group of people gathered on that path looking at a tree. This guy/gal was on a nearby branch. Close enough to the path that I assume he/she likes to scope out the smaller dogs being walked by the large meat bags.

MRC · Nov 25, 2025

A new experience for me...

... yesterday I was stung by a bumblebee. Of course I've been stung by bees occasionally and by wasps heavily as a child before I learned not to step on wasps' nests, but bumblebee never. In fact I can and do pick them up gently to transport them out of the house when they can't find the way out. Never had an objection before, but yesterday I picked up some very wet dead leaves and received a sharp sting. Inside the leaves were two bumblebees, who were probably already pissed off by being trapped in there and extra annoyed by being squeezed some more.

Ouch! They certainly pack a punch 😲

In future I'll still pick up bumblebees but be extra wary of wet leaves 🙄

JimInOz · Nov 25, 2025

Felix_La_PuBelle
Walking through a local nature spot and saw a small group of people gathered on that path looking at a tree. This guy/gal was on a nearby branch. Close enough to the path that I assume he/she likes to scope out the smaller dogs being walked by the large meat bags.

Saw an article yesterday, the Aussie version.............

https://au.news.yahoo.com/brutal-mo...ter-sixth-sense-moment-in-bush-064207469.html

Felix_La_PuBelle · Nov 25, 2025

JimInOz
Saw an article yesterday, the Aussie version.............

https://au.news.yahoo.com/brutal-mo...ter-sixth-sense-moment-in-bush-064207469.html

In my area there are some small dogs being pushed in strollers and I imagine the owl thought dim sum was being wheeled out for him.

sheepdoll · Dec 10, 2025

They really like to pose. Sometimes you can walk right up to them for a blog shot.

I remember when I was little back in the 1960s we had to get up real early in the morning , then go with the 4 wheel drive off road club to see one which looked to be hundereds of yards away on the other side of a swamp through feild glasses.

Removing DDT from the environment and restoring the local marsh brought them back.

Archer · Dec 17, 2025

Came home from running some errands yesterday and the sun was setting, and this guy was hovering around the garage. He did look like he wanted to come in for a visit, so we had to shut the garage door and encourage him to move on...

pdxleaf · Dec 17, 2025

Archer
Came home from running some errands yesterday and the sun was setting, and this guy was hovering around the garage. He did look like he wanted to come in for a visit, so we had to shut the garage door and encourage him to move on...

Reminds me of this fun guy

-from a news article about a rabid racoon. Such an impressive stance I saved the picture.

Archer · Dec 17, 2025

pdxleaf
Reminds me of this fun guy

-from a news article about a rabid racoon. Such an impressive stance I saved the picture.

Reminds of a certain series of movies...

Rabies - we get some in the area, but of the 91 cases found in 2024, 90 were in bats, and one was a human case (first in 50 years). We occasionally have raccoons acting strange in our neighbourhood, but that's usually distemper.

JimInOz · Dec 17, 2025

Fallout Boy

Starlinks?

Fallout Boy · Dec 18, 2025

made my day! 👍

Archer · Jan 9, 2026

This little guy has been hanging around lately - very cute white tipped ears!

Waltesefalcon · Jan 9, 2026

Archer
Came home from running some errands yesterday and the sun was setting, and this guy was hovering around the garage. He did look like he wanted to come in for a visit, so we had to shut the garage door and encourage him to move on...