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With milder winter this year, our garden's usual Cherry Blossoms' first buds unravel today - earlier by four weeks!
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Tough nature's world - With breeding season starting, male Australian magpie parent decides today it's time for juvenile to be independent. It harrasses juvenile who succumbs. Not satisfied, parent continues harrassment until juvenile is chased away.
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At dusk on a clear blue evening winter sky, high flying Corella pairs overfly our garden to return to their roosting spot. They are relatively small cockatoos
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With Australia's dire need for Pfizer Covid vaccines, today's dusk DHL Boeing 777 approaches Sydney airport from Los Angeles over our garden - hopefully with supplies, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Amazing to watch this down feather as it dislodged from a flying Cockatoo, visibly float around the sky over our garden
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Cockatoo parliament in evening session with government on the right and opposition on the left. As usual, not all paying attention and it's a very noisy affair too!
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Unique winter cloud art over our garden, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - on Explore 12 August 2021
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On a sunny winter evening, a pair of high flying adult Corellas, with lovely light on them, overfly our garden on their way to their roosting spot. Corellas are relatively small cockatoos
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Today's pretty pair of dusk Corellas return to roost at the national park, overflying our garden
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Today's striking new Hibiscus flower at our garden, while the predecessor decays - nature's life cycle at work
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Today's bright dusk day moon (first quarter) framed by clouds as seen from our garden - uncropped
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At dusk on a sunny winter evening, a confident juvenile Australian magpie struts around at our garden after having dinner. The beak bears tell tale signs of its digging efforts. Uncropped image
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With winter dusk sunlight on its plumage, alert adult Noisy Miner is on intruder watch at our garden, perched high up a gum tree
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This wet weekend, with Sydney in Covid lockdown due to deadly delta variant spreading rapidly in the community, today's dusk Singapore Airlines Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner from Singapore approaches Sydney, overflying our garden - on Explore 10 July 2021