The common Blackbird (Turdus merula) is an introduced species and a pest in Australia, but none the less they sing beautifully (although not often enough) and have the cutest hatchlings. These are 2 of 3 eggs that have hatched just outside our back door in a lavender bush.

A wedge-tailed eagle (Aquila audax) takes flight in outback Australia.

The only Meropidae species found in Australia, the Rainbow bee-eater (Merops Ornatus) is common throughout Southern Australia and Tasmania but are becoming increasingly rare in suburbia. During Winter they migrate to Northern Australia, New Guinea, and some of the Indonesian Islands.

The brush roofing of an old building overlooking the vineyards of McLaren Vale in South Australia.

Eastern Blue-tongued Lizard (Tiliqua scincoides scincoides)

The joys of a summer garden, sunflowers in my backyard standing 9ft tall with flowers larger than a standard dinner plate.

A kookaburra that visited my garden last week. We quite often hear them laughing from the tree-tops during the day, and with a bumper local lizard population I suspect they will be around for quite a while.