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26/04/2025

A Caspian tern (Hydroprogne caspia) taking off with a flounder from the estuary. It flew about 50m then dropped it. Not sure the fish would have swam to freedom though, the lower beak had skewered it behind the head! Peel estuary, Western Australia.
Canon R5 and 200-800mm at 800mm. 1/2000 f9, ISO 1000

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26/04/2025

A Whistling Kite bullying a Tern into dropping its catch, a flounder from the estuary. The fish was missed by the Kite, so both went hungry. Peel estuary, Western Australia.
Canon R5 and 200-800mm at 800mm. 1/2000 f9, ISO 1000

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26/04/2025

ANZAC day Sea eagle and Fish eagle flyby... shakedown... then aerial battle. Peel estuary.
I'd just gotten out of the car when I noticed so many things going on - pelicans feeding, fish jumping, a huge flock or cormorants, stingrays flapping in the shallows, then an Osprey flew past holding a fish. My camera wasn't properly set up (after lightning photography on Tuesday) but I got the telephoto on and grabbed a couple of frames.....then I noticed something much bigger enter the fray. The White-bellied sea eagle chased down the Osprey until it dropped its half eaten fish, but then it sunk and the eagle couldn't retrieve it. The osprey was p****d! It spent the next few minutes attacking the sea eagle, whose defence is to toll onto its back. Got my camera got set up in between attacks, but they remained far away, about 200m or so. Still grabbed some nice images of the battle though.
Canon R5 and 200-800mm at 800mm. 1/1000 to 1/2000 f9, ISO 500-1600
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23/04/2025

A selection of bolts taken 22nd April from Preston beach, south west of Western Australia. Some are repeated as close ups.
Some of these were soooo bright, retina searing but very quick flashes, I had no idea there were bolts in there until I checked the back of the camera. Unusual as far as WA lightning goes. I had to decrease ISO and close the aperture so they didn’t blow out.

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Canon R5 with 24-105mm (at ~50-105mm), F8-11 and 5-8secs, ISO 100-400

23/04/2025

An awesome bolt with lovely snaggles (look at the right above the cloud) photographed 22nd April from Preston beach in the south west of Western Australia, dropping somewhere between me and Bunbury to the south.
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Canon R5 24-105mm at about 80mm, f8 and 5 seconds, iso 400.

23/04/2025

A couple of bolts from last nights storms from South Bunbury. The storms were well out to sea but then the rain came in and in quick succession BOOM these hit a few km away. Check out the cargo ship in the bottom right corner, dwarfed by the towering bolt. The completely blown out one made me rethink my life choices, and I scarpered quickly to my car from the tin roofed picnic shelter!
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13/02/2025

When you shine UV light on a Possum....it "glows" orange! Who knew?!

05/02/2025

Leichhardt’s grasshopper (Petasida ephippigera). This amazing looking insect occurs in a small area, living and feeding on Pityrodia shrubs on the escarpments of Arnhem Land. They appear when the wet season begins and to the Indigenous people of the Western Arnhem Land they are ‘Alyurr’, a child of the lightning man Namarrkon,
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19/05/2024

Last Friday we had a few little storms rumble through.... and then came the aurora, and I forgot to go through my pics. Not spectacular, but still pretty. These are over Garden island, heading towards Rockingham/Mandurah Perth Weather Live
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19/04/2024

10/04/2024

Very cool

Paper dates 82 pottery pieces found in single dig site at between 3,000 and 2,000 years old

07/04/2024

Welcome swallow (Hirundo neoxena). They were congregating in huge numbers in the reed beds next to the Peel estuary last week, getting their fill from the millions of midges that were hatching and producing huge swarms that spiraled above the tree tops.
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