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Kimberly
@kimbasgarden.bsky.social
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Ordinary person - I won't post often.
Passionate about the world & justice for her people. Grieving as I live the path we are on.
Creating a tiny patch of bushland in my little garden on Awabakal land.
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Joined for lunch today by this gorgeous ##GardenFriend - Nymphes myrmeleonides (aka the Giant orange lacewing). It's not at all surprising folks believed in fairies.
#AustralianInverts
#BugSky
A large orange lacewing, with perfect fairy wings, is perched upside down on a bright green fine leafed plant covered in tiny deep pink flowers.
November 22, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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This week's #GardenFriend
Turned up in a pile of eucymulch I was moving. I have no idea what it is (happy for suggestions) but it was both impressive and handsome.
#AussieInverts
#BugSky
A large and somewhat grubby beetle. It has big black eyes and bigger chompers! The front of the shell is khaki and dimpled. The wings are lighter khaki with black splotches and where the front joins the wings there's a rusty orange part V ending in a circle of the same colour. Where the wings meet, they are black bordered. Overall impression is of a beetle ready for military duty.
November 21, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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Your pic is much better than mine but here's my garden regular. Seems to have spotted something in the currently dry pond. It has learned the deeply mulched garden holds many worms and grubs. Such clever birds.
A kookaburra is perched on a rusty steel bullrush garden sculpture. It is looking down to the base of a currently dry pond where real bullrushes are currently in flower.
November 15, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Today's #GardenFriend
Chrysolopus spectabilis (aka: sapphire/diamond/Botany Bay weevil).
Rescued from a pond and now drying out on a small Acacia paradoxa.
#AustralianInverts
Pic is focused on a black and bright blue weevil resting on a fine, leafy, green branch.
November 14, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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#AuroraAustralis - coastal Lake Macquarie NSW.
My favourite pics from this evening.
Photo taken from the cliss top. The sky is green yellow at the horizon, violet in the middle and dark at the top and both sides of the pic. Photo taken down on the beach. The sand is dark, the cliff line and shore rocks are in silhouette and the sky is bright violet.
November 12, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Just back from the local cliffs and beach.
This is my pick of pointing, clicking and crossing my fingers.
An aurora Australis photo. The bottom of the pic is dark sand. There are 2 bright ship lights on the horizon. There's a looming dark cliff to to the right and the sky is star studded and glowing violet.
November 12, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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This evening's #GardenFriend and a sure sign summer is round the corner.
#AustralianInverts
#Beetles
Pic is of an Australian christmas beetle - a fawn scarab beetle which in the light shines pink and gold. A little jewel. It is sitting quietly on an old timber table.
November 8, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Mine today - taken in my lunch break.
If only there weren't multiple coal ships marring the horizon.
Pic taken today of a Lake Macquarie NSW beach. In the foreground there's dense green scrub. The sea is flat with small white waves flowing into shore. In the shallows, the water is clear, bright blue - it gets darker in deep water. The top 3rd of the pic is a cloudless blue sky.
November 5, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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Not a snake considered common on the Central Coast but actually iNat has quite a few records.
A map screen shot taken from iNaturalist. The map is for the Central Coast to North Sydney NSW region and shows all the recorded sightings of death adders.
October 26, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Another beautiful #GardenFriend for the evening.
I'm guessing Endoxyla literatus - the carpenter moth.
#moths
#AustralianInvertebrates
Photo is of a large (60mm) moth resting on timber boards. The moth is mostly fawn with black and grey patterning on body and wings. It has 2 strong black stripes on the top of its head. The same moth with my rough looking hands holding a tape measure.
October 25, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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A stunning, chubby caterpillar found in my garden this evening while hosing at the end of a hot day.
Guessing it's some sort of hawk moth but I'm not really sure.
#Moths
#GardenFriend
A very chubby caterpillar. It's about 8cm long with jagged creamy yellow, black and white stripes and a pronounced 'horn'. It's on a bed of mulch and bright green ground cover.
October 20, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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We had post storm mammatus clouds ☁️
#clouds
Post storm mammatus clouds. Little by the last of the setting sun.
October 17, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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We've just had a very dramatic little hail storm.
The pics don't do the colour of the sky justice - it's glowing yellow!
#Weather
#Storm
#Sky
Small hail dotting a bed of mulch in the foreground. The background is young Australian native shrubs - Lambertia Formosa, Rhagodia spinescens and Prostanthera incisa. The left hand arch of a rainbow in a bright yellow sky. There are trees at the bottom of the pic and if you peer through the trees, you can see a patch of sea. Trees and the right hand arc of a rainbow.
October 17, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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Garden friend 💚
Tiliqua scincoides
Eastern bluetongue lizard. This one is at least 30cm long.
#AustralianNativeLizards
#Lizard
An Australian bluetongue lizard is sunning itself on a bed of eucalyptus mulch. There are rocks to its right, a young Vanilla lily to its left and a young Pattersonia (native iris) just behind it. It's at least 30cms long.
October 12, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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I don't have 4 legged friends but here's a Currawong just doing its own thing in the garden.
Pic of an Australian Pied Currawong standing on a garden rock and probably spotting grubs. In the background there's a timber fence, the trunk of a Norfolk Hibiscus, and lots more rocks. There are some young plants visible and in the right hand foreground, there's a cluster of young bulrushes.
September 28, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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Spring. And a star burst of yellow cone flowers (Isopogon anemonifolius) pushing up through dense Lobelia anceps.
#FlowersForFriday
#AustralianNativeFlowers
#BloomScrolling
A star burst of bright yellow cone flowers (Isopogon anemonifolius) stretch diagonally from top right to bottom left of the pic. A large grey rock sits to the right of the flowers and you can see some tiny violet flowers (Lobelia anceps) leaning against the rock.
September 26, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Arrow pointing at the notification bell.
September 6, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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#ShowMeSomething #Pink
Grevillea sericea- flowering beautifully atm.
Photo of a small Grevillea sericea - endemic to coastal Lake Macquarie NSW but growing in my garden here. It has fine mid dark green foliage, red new stems and small flowers that can be pale pink through to burgundy. Flowers on this plant are almost candy pink.
August 29, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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It took 5 months to resocialise this monster and get him back to his person.
Photo of a large, fluffy tabby cat sitting on an old timber telephone line cable spool table.
August 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Here's a pic of my lunch buddy earlier today.
Pic of an Australian kookaburra sitting on a verandah railing. Its left eye is reflecting the afternoon sun. Neighbour's cream colourbond fences and greenery in the background.
July 17, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Little poppet visitor.
Dropped in to share breakfast.
An Australian Grey butcherbird sitting on an outdoor lounge cushion. Suburban back garden and a bright blue winter sky in the background.
June 22, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Little low tide worlds.
#Octopus
#WildOz
#SeaLife
The delicate arm of an octopus, tentacles showing. Found in a small rock pool - the water is very clear, there is tan coloured ferny seaweed, bright green sea lettuce and a carpet of sea smoothed pebbles, sea shells and bits of purple coral. Low tide rock pool. One large stone looks like it's covered in khaki moss and at one end, clusters of small ribbon weed striped neon blue/green. Low tide rock pool. The left hand side of the pic is covered in coarse sand and small stones, the right side shows smooth cream, yellow to orange rock. There are small clusters of fine maroon weed and in the centre of the pic, hovering over the smooth rock is a pretty toadfish.
June 21, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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There are lots of Pterostylis orchid species popping up in Wallarah National Park but I only know of one tiny patch where Corybus pruinosis grows. A tiny, delicate orchid that I watch for each winter.
#Orchids
#AustralianOrchids
#WildOz
Pic of a Corybas pruinosis - a terrestrial Australian native orchid commonly known as a toothed helmet orchid. The flower grows from a single, vivid green heart shaped leaf. The flower is grey and mulberry - the lower section of the flower is fringed or toothed.
June 15, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Same coastal headland two weeks apart and two very different species. The Superb fairy-wren was stealing food from spider webs in the little pocket Caves. The Australian ravens were enjoying a meal of crab.
#AustralianBirds
#BirdNoticer
A male Superb fairy-wren standing on a rocky coastal headland. The males have bright blue and black plumage on head and chest. A pair of Australian ravens standing on a rocky coastal headland. The birds have glossy black plumage and white eyes.
June 15, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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I'm just a bit north of you. So many different types of mushrooms/fungi in the bush this morning.
Mushroom of unknown species surrounded by leaf litter and not yet flowering orchids.
May 31, 2025 at 11:39 AM