Dinner time for green ants
Some green ants manoeuvre a dead stick insect up a verandah post. The latter is about 150mm (six inches) long.
Green ant takeaway dinner
Category Archives: Wildlife
The garden zoo was busy today
I went outside and spotted a medium sized wallaby doing some lawn maintenance.
Garden Wallaby
I grabbed the camera and was just about to click the shutter release when it was spooked by a noise from the forest.
Garden Cassowary
Yet another cassowary in the garden. I’m going to miss these when we move back home.
Garden Cassowary
Cassowary having a dog-like shake of the feathers.
Garden Cassowary
And off. They don’t stay long because we don’t feed them. A fed cassowary is a dead cassowary.
Golden orb weaver spider
To give you some sense of scale this little lady is larger than my hand. Cute!
Golden Orb Weaver Spider
Golden Orb Weaver Spider
It’s probably a Nephila pilipes and also likely to be a juvenile female. You can read more about this baby on Wikipedia. There are nine male admirers sitting in her web and waiting for her to return. The males are probably 5% of the size of the female. Yes, they really are that small.
Goanna in the garden
Goanna in the garden
A fine specimen stomping through the garden and searching for breakfast. This big boy is about 1.5m (4 foot) long.
The usual stuff about taking photos through a fly screen applies. Click the thumbnail image for a much larger version, as always.
Garden Cassowary
Garden Cassowary
Garden Cassowary
Another fine specimen wandering around the garden. As with the photo of the recent juvenile cassowary visitor these were taken through fly screens covering the louvred windows.