Small-leaved lilly pilly, INSET: Australasian figbird (male), Bulimba. A sunny afternoon spent in Bulimba last Thursday afternoon offered up some great encounters with a variety of reptiles, birds and insects.
Jacky winter, Wallangarra. A drive out to the Stanthorpe region with a friend on Wednesday provided me with my first ever sighting of an Australian bird icon, the jacky winter (Microeca fascinans) .