Wildlife

Not Frank, but a different Tawny Frogmouth (and like Frank, not an owl, but a nightjar). Taken in Byron Bay

Byron Bay, 4am. Came for the Geminids, stayed for the crab.

I think this little fellow is an "Eastern Yellow Robin" (Eopsaltria Australis) but I am not entirely convinced. Please let me know if you can identify him.

Frank isn't really evil, he just a very serious and often misunderstood bird.
Meet Frank, our local Tawny Frogmouth Owl (they are actually more nightjars, not owls proper, but let's not split feathers).

Euch! Dying Cockroach - processed and posted exclusively for the PhotoFriday "Gross" challenge.
To think I could have taken a photo of 12 bunches of a dozen roses, or someone's paycheck before the Goverment took their slice, or some political satire of Gross Incompetence... it ain't always pretty.

This is BJ, son of Bubba (in the background), feasting on Cola's dinner. This was taken a while ago now, BJ doesn't look quite so innocent anymore, but still gets away with the occasional feed. Cola (our cat) doesn't seem to mind too much, as long as they stay out of her way she seems ok with them sharing her food from time to time.

Known around here as "Christmas Beetles" as they tend to come out around November/December, our summer. Their colourings are just amazing, providing you can get past the fact that they are, after all... bugs.

In a patch of scrub recently burnt out a colony of ants on a tree trunk encourage their mates to burst the pinata - who oddly, seemed unpeturbed. Taken with a homemade diopter attachment on a Fuji S7000. Placed 7th in the Fujimugs "Festivities" Open challenge.

I encountered this blowfly at the City Botanical Gardens, Brisbane. He paused only long enough for a few frames to be taken in Macro mode. Fuji Finepix S7000, 1/125 f2.8 ISO400.