Life and Wildlife on the Banks of the Murrumbidgee
At the moment butterflies are everywhere, including, unfortunately, smashed on the windscreen of my car. There've been many years where there have been grasshoppers throwing themselves in front of speeding vehicles (I don't think they intend to). Craig and I had one trip to Swan Hill years ago where we had to keep stopping and... Continue Reading →
We regularly see mistletoebirds (Dicaeum Hirundinaceum) around the house and around the hills. They're a flowerpecker with a taste for mistletoes. Mistletoes grow all over the world, not just at Christmas for romantic kissing purposes. Unlike the area north of us, near Lake Burrinjuck, however, our eucalypts have few mistletoes. I'm not sure why. Maybe they're... Continue Reading →
One Bend In The River 