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Dragon 📷; mostly Eastern Water Dragons (Intellagama lesueurii lesueurii); big arboreal/semi-aquatic lizards, living wild in the big city.
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@SandyHorne61 astounding!!

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My favourite raptor - the spotted harrier. There are a lot of these about right now. I spotted this one terrorising the ducks on a dam along the Richman Valley Road near Quorn.

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@R101Nick What a lovely little creature! I had a semi-domesticated brushtail once, years and years ago, and its fur was so soft and fluffy to stroke. This one is obviously very much at home. Great to see!

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@GubsMcintyre @BSmithBenS don't knock it until you've tried it

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@TrillClintqhtm @SandyHorne61 on yer bike dickhead

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@TigerStripedDoc @BadWeatherKyle 100m is almost exactly half a furlong

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@Lord_Mark8 @MarcoFoster_ I don't give a damn about your opinion on New Zealand either

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Sunset tonight was like a fire burning along the ridge

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Dotterel in a hurry, Tauranga Bay, Far North NZ

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Mid-winter evening with smudgy clouds

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@SandyHorne61 I don't mind them really; they're a bit raucous in a crowd, but I prefer the blue-faced ones which are individually louder but have a much sweeter and more pleasant tone to their tweets

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@SandyHorne61 I'm in Far North NZ at the moment and surrounded by an NZ honeyeater, the Tūī, singing their hearts out around my cottage. ❤️

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@SandyHorne61 Yeah I've seen a few different kinds, but not this one. I looked on iNaturalist and they do seem to be pretty common though pretty rare in Brisbane it seems. I think they're an attractive bunch of birds on the whole except for the Annoying Miner of which I'm not much of a fan

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@SandyHorne61 The colours of their plumage are just so beautiful! Some of Australia's prettiest birds IMO

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@DavyJInTheHouse @SandyHorne61 Called K'gari since time immemorial, then briefly Great Sandy Island and also Fraser Island, now back to its earlier name. Some old-fashioned people still just like to cling to a colonial identity though.

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@johndg384472 @_Stormriderone_ @SandyHorne61 It's a spelling that reflects pronunciation: the K' prefix represents a glottal stop, a common vocalisation in many languages though not much used in Australian English.

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@_Stormriderone_ @SandyHorne61 The K' prefix is pronounced: it's a glottal stop; a sound not much used in most English dialects but you hear it in a cockney pronunciation of "bottle". where the "tt" is "dropped" but actually pronounced as a glottal stop.