Garden Guests Diary, Wildlife 11 March 2010

The disappearance and downsizing of Australia’s backyard in major capital cities is placing increased pressure of Australia’s native birdlife. Ann-Maree Colborne, CEO of Gould Group, Australia’s oldest environmental education organisation formed in 1909 with Prime Minister Alfred Deakin as its first president to protect native bird life said, the decade of drought has seen a major increase in birds migrating to the city in search of water and food.

 Garden Guests Diary 6 March 2010

I see these birds often in my garden but they are so wary of me that I don’t even come close to pointing my camera lense at them.  Today, this juvenile came down and was perched on our pool fence with a couple of noisy miners.  I took these shots …

 Garden Guests Diary 1 February 2010

The weather in Brisbane at the moment is extremely humid but over the last couple of days we’ve had heavy rain which has cleared the air and today was quite bearable and very blustery. When the sun manages to sneak out, there is a moist, golden glow in the air which I adore for taking photographs and the wet foliage is lush and tropical.

 Garden Guests Diary 20 January 2010

As this massive bird matures, his host crow parents are coming down to our garden a little bit more often, frantically looking for food for their adopted offspring.  To my utter frustration, the channel-billed cuckoo was in my garden twice today screeching for food but as soon as I crept …

 Featured, News from the Studio 20 January 2010

I managed to get a little bit of the second kookaburra done and it’s easier on my eyes since I purchased the magnification lenses from the Chemist.

 Garden Guests Diary 18 January 2010

For the past week or so my my husband and I plus the neighbours have been hearing and talking about a new bird which we have not been able to identify until now! At first we thought it was a baby crow as it seemed to be with the crows …

 Cats, Garden Guests Diary 1 January 2010

For the past month or so I have been so busy with my new online shop and have not been out in my yard to take any new pictures of garden guests.  Today, on New Year’s Day 2010 an unwanted garden guest made an appearance and I am still affected …

 Competitions, News from the Studio 9 September 2009

I am thrilled to say that my photograph “Canoodling in the Mist” has been shortlisted in the current Click! Photography Competition run by Steve Parish Publishing.
Canoodling in the Mist – shortlisted in Click! Steve Parish Photography Competition

 Art and Photography, News from the Studio 29 August 2009

This original graphite drawing is available now in my shop.  This drawing is unframed, size is 14 x 11 inches (a standard ready-made frame size),  done on acid free 110 GSM cartridge paper.  I was inspired by a family of black-winged stilts I saw at Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary and these …

 Garden Guests Diary, Wildlife 16 August 2009

I previously recorded in my Garden Guests Diary that a male Australian King Parrot came down for the very first time to our garden to feed on the seed bell.  This was my first sighting ever of this magnificent bird.  Months went by and he never returned – until now!  …