Thursday, 21 November 2013

Bunya Mountain National Park – QLD 12-11-2013

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FIshers Lookout – Bunya Mountain National Park

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Superb fairy wrens

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Eastern yellow-breasted robin

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Bunya Pine and epiphyte

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                                                                                                         Pine cone seed – Hoop Pine ?

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Knit one pearl one!

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Tim Shea Falls

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Jacky Lizard

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Tree Fungi

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A nest – bird or insect?

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Millipede on forest path                      More fungi

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Emerging from forest to Pine Gorge Lookout – Hoop Pine in foreground

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Everlasting daisy                  Male Scrub Turkey leaf litter nesting mound, one of many, kept at constant incubating temperature by this bird

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Satin Bower Bird favouring blue decoration. After seven years, young male satin bower birds finish their bower building apprenticeship, moult green feathers and become shiny blue black, fully fledged adults. Only the perfect nest attracts a female!

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Satin Bower Bird Fussing around

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Satin by name indeed!                                              Female Satin bower bird – beautiful too!                                                   

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Red-Browed Finch – there where many grouped together,                  Australian Raven

after insects midst the grasses, early in the morning.                                                                      

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Misty mornings – burnt off by midday

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