I have just joined the 2015 Photography Project365 Group on FaceBook where the challenge is taking and posting a new photo every day for an entire year.
Today Lynn was meeting Delle to do some shopping in Campbelltown so I took the the opportunity to drop Lynn off visit the Mount Annan (The Australian) Botanical Gardens and to get a photo for today's posting. Usually when I visit the gardens it is to photograph the plants, but today I thought I'd target other subjects. The photos I short-listed for today were Wanderer Butterfly on Purpletop weed (1), Rippled Reflections, Oh good, there's a seat at the top, Power, Royal Spoonbill (1), and These legs were made for walking. I chose the photo of the Butterfly..........why?......it was the hardest to get.
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| Wanderer Butterfly on Purpletop weed. (1) |
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Part of the planted sections.
Mount Annan Botanical Gardens. |
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| Purple Swamphen |
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| Purple Swamphen |
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| Australasian Grebe and chick. |
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| Red Dragon Fly |
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| Target sighted captain. Dragon Fly in flight. |
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| Blue Dragon Fly |
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| Blue Dragon Fly |
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| Blue Dragon Fly |
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| Black-winged Stilt |
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| Rippled Reflections. |
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| Wasp |
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| Wasp |
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| Wasp |
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| Australasian Grebe |
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| Why the Grebe has trouble walking on land, its legs are more out the back than underneath. |
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| And the small wings also mean that it's not the best flier. |
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| Welcome Swallow |
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| Welcome Swallows |
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| Masked Lapwing (Spur-winged Plover) |
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| Blue-banded Bee |
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| Blue-banded Bee |
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| Blue-banded Bee |
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| Oh good, there's a seat at the top. |
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| Chestnut Teal |
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| Power |
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| Australian White Ibis |
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Life's one big yawn.
Australian White Ibis |
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| Paper Wasp nest. |
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| Dusky Moorhen |
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| Water Skink |
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| Water Skink does a bit of rock lick'n. |
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| Galah |
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| Red Dragon Fly |
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| Blue Dragon Fly |
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| Never needs watering. |
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| White-faced Heron |
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| White-faced Heron |
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| This Water Skink was missing a front leg. |
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| These legs were made for walking. |
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| Part of the open grass lands. |
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| Wanderer Butterfly on Purpletop weed. |
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| Wanderer Butterfly on Purpletop weed. |
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| Wanderer Butterfly on Purpletop weed. |
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| Wanderer Butterfly on Purpletop weed. |
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| Royal Spoonbill |
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| Royal Spoonbill |
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| Royal Spoonbill (1) |
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| Small Pied and Small Black Cormorants |
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| Royal Spoonbill and White-faced Heron |
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| Purple Swamphen, Royal Spoonbill and White-faced Heron |
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| Royal Spoonbill |
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How do you like the new toe-nails?
Purple Swamphen. |
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| Male and female Australian Wood Duck (Maned Duck). |
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| Reflections in the lilly pond. |
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| Red Dragon Fly |
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| Hardhead (White-eyed Duck) |
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| Pacific Black Duck |
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| Hardhead (White-eyed Duck) and Pacific Black Duck |
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| Magpie Lark (Pee Wee) |
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| Why isn't my photo here? |
Some token photos of plants.
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| Ferns and palms at the start of the main planted section. |
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| Paper Daisy |
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| (not sure what these flowers are called) |
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| The flower heads of Pink Mulla Mulla - Ptilotus sp. |
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| Eastern Grey Kangaroo with a joey in her pouch. |
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Eastern Grey Kangaroos make the gardens their home.
Kangaroo Grass (Themeda triandra, previously known as Themeda australis)
is appropriately growing in the background. |
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| Another storm on the way. |
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| The rainbow filled the sky. |
Camera: Canon PowerShot SX60 HS
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