Yellingbo Nature Conservation Reserve, 2011-12
The images below were taken in 2011 and 2012. The most recent are towards the top.
For more recent photos, please see Yellingbo 2013. I intend to make a page for 2014, but have to find the time.
For more photos of Helmeted Honeyeaters please click here.
Above image: Helmeted Honeyeaters sunbaking on a warm spring day.
For more recent photos, please see Yellingbo 2013. I intend to make a page for 2014, but have to find the time.
For more photos of Helmeted Honeyeaters please click here.
Above image: Helmeted Honeyeaters sunbaking on a warm spring day.
White-necked Heron and Purple Swamphen chick and adult.
Laughing Kookaburras.
Helmeted Honeyeater, back of head, with yellow tufts and
helmet apparent. |
Helmeted Honeyeater with tip of tongue protruding from bill.
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Leech on the prowl. At times these are fairly numerous in wet areas of Yellingbo, but are
seldom a problem really. The worst experience I have had with them here was on a rainy day when one found its way into my eye. It wriggled out from under my eyelid about 45 minutes later, full of blood, of course. |
Brown Thornbill.
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Red-browed Finch; too young to have
the red brow or bill (but see adult below). These birds are doing very well at present (late summer 2011-12). |
I emailed some photos of this beetle to the Discovery Centre at Melbourne Museum where it was identified as a Black Scarab: family Scarabaeidae, subfamily Dynastinae. Thank you, Simon.
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Blotched Blue Tongue, late summer 2011-12. This species is not common in the reserve.
Tree trunks: Eucalypt. Eucalypt with new shoots. Old stump with Black Rock Skink. Blackwood with lichen.