I used to think that identifying Little Brown Birds was hard, but then I discovered Invertebrates...
Three months of photographing insects and spiders in my garden (and my bathtub), over 1k pictures, and I think more than 50% of them remain unidentified.

Another pair of Gang-gang Cockatoos came by today.

My latest spider-find has been tentatively identified as 'Centsymplia glorious'. If correct, that would make its range 'The slopes north of Brisbane, and David's bathtub which is 700km south of there'.

Young Galah.

Calling all artists. This is making the rounds. There is hope for us yet!

Yet again, I have come to the inevitable conclusion that the morally correct amount of birds that should exist in nature is 'unsettlingly abundant'

🧵There's a myth repeated by both the left and right that we don't have records of what Nazis destroyed in the book burnings. Historians know some but not all of the literature. Much of it discussed queer/trans issues. Here are some examples of what Nazis didn't want you to know:

Katydid close-up.

Lewin's Honeyeater in our garden.

Labor has just announced another $50.3bn in the defence budget across the next decade.

Keep that in mind when they say they 'can't afford' to build more homes or lift people out of poverty.

Justice Michael Lee: “having escaped the lion’s den, Mr Lehrmann made the mistake of coming back for his hat”. 😂

Baby Gang-gang Cockatoo!
Juvenile male to be precise.

It took a world war to end the Holocaust in the 1940s.
Just saying.

Normally, I wouldn't interfere with a spider's web, but I have a soft spot for mantids, so when I found this Snake Mantis tangled up in some old house spider web around my window, I just had to help it out.

A different group of Gang-gang Cockatoos visited today. This adult male posed beautifully in the later afternoon sun.

Eastern Spinebill in our garden.

Last night I found another young Snake Mantis - and it had just shed its old exoskeleton!

I was lucky to have worked on the new #MTGThunder set! Mostly on creatures, mounts, and a LOT of saddles. This guy was inspired by basilisks and good ol' banyard roosters. I'm very interested in the construction of saddles for non-equine animals.

Silver Orb Spider (Leucauge dromedaria).

We had Gang-gang Cockatoos visit again today!
It was a family of four (two parents and two juveniles), but I was only able to get a good photo of the mother.