Several of the photos in this will involve flowering vines! But I will start with a Melaleuca armillaris which we noticed as being in flower for the first time on 23 August.
The first vine noticed was
Pandora pandorana (Wonga-vine)
Taking white flowers against an overcast sky is a dodgy prospect, but hopefully you can see the
Clematis aristata.
The
Kennedia rubicunda along Lakeside Drive is beginning to hit its straps. The mountains of this species in the Betka area will be spectacular.
A Masked Lapwing was sitting in the lawn at the end of Coulls Inlet. Frances thought it might be sitting on a nest but I thought it wasn't low enough. Then the bird stood up and 3 chicks ran out.
At some point in our walk a flock of about 50 Little Corellas flew over. I missed the photo then, but later in the day got this one: a similar number of birds are out of shot.
For several days I have been trying to spot a pardalote's nest tunnel in a bank along Lakeside, and today I managed to see it. The red arrow shows the crack in which the tunnel is being dug and the green arrow points to the excavated dirt,
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