Digging burrow in sandy soil
It may seem like she's staring at me, but the dark spot is actually a "pseudopupil," as bees (and other insects) have compound eyes.
"Insects and crustaceans with light-coloured apposition eyes have an easily visible dark spot which has the alarming property that it moves across the eye as the observer rotates around the animal. It seems as though one is being watched. In fact this is at passive optical phenomenon that has nothing to do with the visual process itself. Whatever the background colour of the eye, the region that images the observer must look dark because it absorbs photons from the observer's direction. The dark spot (the pseudopupil) moves with the viewer because different parts of the eye image different directions in space; it is almost disappointingly simple. Often, however, the pseudopupil is more than a dark spot, and has a pattern to it which on careful inspection turns out to be an enlarged and slightly fuzzy image of the various structures around the rhabdom tip, in the focal plane of each facet lens." Land, Michael F, and Dan-Eric Nilsson. Animal Eyes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
undescribed, similar to M.fletcheri
specimens with Jurgen Otto
Photographed just before sunrise (skylight)
https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/32055
Found this Rock Parrot at the base of the trail straight off the Gull Rock end carpark. It was sitting on the ground just after the vegetation ended near some large rocks.
Hybrid C. longicauda x C. hirta rosea?
Kojonup Reserve
hybrid caladenia longicauda x caladenia hirta ssp. rosea
With helmet orchids and moss on a decaying log.
An immature male with some scarlet just starting to appear on the chest.
Fred saw this bee fly in fleeting sightings and mentioned the purple colouration. It didn't stay long in one spot. Fred photographed it on an old Olearia rudis flower and on the yellow sand.
Not sure what is going on but this is the fourth birder that I know of who has had a phoebe perch on their binoculars or on their person at Commons Ford.
When I woke up this morning I didn't know I'd be taking a selfie with a duck. Or running after it as it tried to take off from a wet road, which they never can. Or driving one-handed to release it at the nearest body of water. Any similarity between our hair is coincidental. Rescue mission: successful! The duck is on the left.
See Schubert 2020 https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4758.1.1
This observation is for the lizard
This observation is for the snake
Should accept Cyanicula ixioides subsp. candida (White China Orchid)
I don't know if anyone can add taxa?