tiabunna's photos

Looking eastwards along the northern shore of Batemans Bay, toward Square Head Nature Reserve.

The markings, especially the white patches on the wings, indicate that this is a juvenile White-breasted Sea Eagle. When adult, these birds are pale grey and white (see PiP) and they are found around the coasts of Australia.

A long and colourful mural in Sydney. Oh yes, and a foreground bench, so it's time to wish everyone a very Happy Bench Monday.

Looking toward Cape Bruny, with the old lighthouse (at right) and the new automatic and solar powered light on the left. The new light is not accessible to tourist visitors. Best viewed large.

In 1804, the British colonists opened a second Australian penal colony in Hobart, at least partly to prevent further French interest in the area - see my previous image. HFF and have a great weekend everyone. The following is from Wikipedia. "(this) is the second oldest extant lighthouse tower in Australia, as well as having the longest (158 years) history of being continuously manned. It was first lit in March 1838 and was eventually decommissioned on 6 August 1996. The project was commissioned by Governor George Arthur in 1835 after a series of shipwrecks south of Bruny Island and construction began in April 1836. The lighthouse was built by convict labour using locally quarried dolerite over two years. When first lit in March 1838 it was Tasmania's third lighthouse and Australia's fourth." There now is a new automated and solar powered light near the old lighthouse.

Looking westward from Cape Bruny, at the southern end of the island of the same name, across the D'Entrecasteaux Channel. Both the island and the channel were named after the French explorer Vice-Admiral Bruni D'Entrecasteaux who determined the layout of the islands and channel back in 1792 while searching for the missing ships of the explorer La Perouse. Best viewed large.

I won't claim this is my best bird image, but I was delighted to capture this long range shot of an uncommon Rose Robin. A few words of clarification are needed here. The birds in Australia known as "Robins" (there is a range of about 15 species in the family) were given that name by the European colonists because they are small birds with coloured fronts. They are unrelated to and totally different from the European Robins - putting it in ornithological terms, in Australia they are from the Petroica family, those in Europe are Erithacus rubecela .

For "Macro Mondays" group topic #267, 25 July 2022 "Crack, break, fracture" "...We are looking for your macro that shows a crack or fracture or something similar."

Taken on a windy day at Cape Bruny, on the southern end of Bruny Island, with a view southwards across the Southern Ocean. Happy Bench Monday, everyone,