Archive for the ‘Nature’ Category
John Tregambe of Nillumbik Estate explains his wine making process.
This small family owned and run winery has been producing award winning wines in the Yarra Valley for over 10 years.
Fossil “Cat Crocodile” Had Mammal-like Teeth
via Fossil “Cat Crocodile” Had Mammal-like Teeth.
Gang Gang Cocky
The friendly Gang-gang cockatoo (Callocephalon fimbriatum), with its’ distinctive creaky-cry, can be heard and seen around Eltham at this time of year. They usually travel in small family, or social groups. This old male prefers to spend a couple of days feasting on a berry bush alone. These little critters are considered vulnerable and their [...]
Nature calls
We have been hearing this distant cry, for quite awhile and untill now have had no idea what it was. The first time we heard it, it sounded a bit creepy. I thought it may have been an owl or some other bird, but after researching different owl and nightjar crys, I came up with [...]
Fox Call [0:15m]: Play in PopupBushFires
It has been a very smokey day in Melbourne and this is a part of the reason (ripped from; http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/, with thanks): Fires in Victoria, Australia. A river of smoke more than 250 kilometers wide flowed northwest across the Victoria-New South Wales border on December 12, 2006, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on [...]
Tawny Frogmouths (Furbies)
Thought I would quickly throw these photos up; they are of a Tawny Frogmouth family which lives in our neighbourhood. They breed up every other year and emancipate. You don’t get to see them that often, but we have been observing them for close to ten years. Initially I thought there was a mother and [...]