Anathema Device @anathema_device@wonkodon.com

Photos of orb spiders and wombat berry, taken this morning out my back door, during light rain

#spiders #wildlife #australia #NativePlants

Wildlife on display at the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) bistro in Brisbane today.

I hadn't realised that male water dragons could change their dewlap colour on the fly, but this one was doing that as we watched. Whether he felt threatened by the smaller female, or was looking for love, we couldn't tell. The female may have been pregnant. She had a very round little belly.

#wildlife #australia #reptiles #WaterDragons

A Bennett's Wallaby and joey say hello :)

#Wallabies #Macropods #Australian #Wildlife

As well as being visited by the young singing magpie at the CREEC café, a juvenile pied butcherbird decided to join me briefly to see if there were nibbles available (there were not!) It was in the process of moulting and looking scruffy, unlike the sleekly beautiful adults.

The butcherbirds have even lovelier songs than magpies, but this one declined to sing for me :)
https://birdlife.org.au/bird-profile/pied-butcherbird

#Birds #AustralianBirds #wildlife

An young Australian Magpie at CREEC, Burpengary, #queensland showing why it is also called a 'flute bird'

#birds #australianbirds #wildlife

More #Birds !

Specifically Magellanic (or Jackass) Penguins, from Magdelena Island, Chile

#penguins #wildlife #chile

Our cruise ship called in at Stanley, Falkland Islands, on a sunny warm day, so rare and lovely that the locals said they only had weather like it five days a year at most, and our captain said he had never seen it at all. There will be a few photos of birds from there because it is, amongst other things, a bird lover's paradise!

This is a crested duck (Thanks to @manukikorangi for correcting my misidentification)

#Birds #wildlife #stanley #falklandislands

More birds from the Falkland islands, this time from Bluff Cove. These are upland geese, which show strong sexual dichromatism (boys and girls wear different coloured clothes :) )

#birds #wildlife #falklandislands

Kelp gull and chicks, Magdalena Island, Straights of Magellan, #chile #birds #wildlife

I have a bazillion travel photos sitting on my computer, and since I'm following people who take or repost such wonderful shots, I thought I would dig out some of my better ones to share. I won't post more than a couple a day, to avoid overloading the server.

A few years ago we took a cruise from Valparaiso, Chile to Buenos Aires, Argentina, via Antarctica. Amongst other things, we saw a *lot* of new birds.

This is a Peruvian Pelican, photo taken at #Valparaiso #chile #Birds #wildlife