Resting on the flower of a Norfolk Island Hibiscus in my garden. This is the first time that I've seen one of these beauties.

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Male Spotted Quail Thrush .
Observed in Eucalyptus giving double whistle song.

Area burnt 19th December 2019

Form Cribrarula cribraria zadela (Iredale, 1939) suggested by D.Preston but name status is inquirendum accordng to WoRMS http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=711164

~25mm long, ~60mm legspan

Male Silver-back (Idiommata sp ES02)

www.ellura.info/Arachnida.html#Idiommata-sp-ES02

Images from Trail Camera of Brown Goshawk taking off with its kill of European Rabbit.
Both species common breeding residents.

1 up close flew back to another tree then flock of 6 flew off together

Phase contrast microscopy, 400X magnification

F2L slug

'There's a scheme afoot!'. Pigeons, pigeons everywhere.....Italian pigeons enjoy some very beautiful urban roosts, here on the Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi in Rome.

Begging for food (listen to the sound recording!) from the parent currawong https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/69768338

F2L

Another sighting of a female of this mosquito species. My backyard in outer western Sydney

moth seen on screen door next to it is a potted Geranium which also had caterpillars

Eye moth
Identified as Speiredonia spectans on Bowerbird by Matthew Connors

Southern Old Lady Moth - found on one of my flyscreens

Large @ ~12mm long

This is our 14th species of Mutillidae at Ellura. Here's some of our others.
www.ellura.info/Diptera-Hymenoptera.html#Wasp:-Mutillidae

Found this one in a creek out Thangool
way a year ago - been observing it in our aquarium since. Has grown to about 3cm long

Faggot Case Moth, Tineoidae Psychidae

Black Headed Fairy Longhorn Moth (Nemophora topazias)

Last pic is with the parent (blurry but!)

Cluster of flowers likely to be a single individual

Interesting habitat on hot, dry, flat rocks high above the water.