Today at the Farm

Autumn arrives

Butcherbird prey

Crested Pidgeon

Echidna's feast

Grevillia

Guava

Nagura Burrs

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Sunset in our valley

Young heifer

Young Magpie

Young Magpie

From PAUL OATES in Queensland, Australia

Autumn has finally arrived and with it, the leaves are turning colour.

A young Magpie is 'carolling' outside and in the distance, a Pied Butcherbirdgives it melodic call. Aside from the 'hook' on the tip of a Butcherbird'sbeak, this bird gets its name from its habit of 'hanging' its prey up onanything it can a 'hook it' on to.

In this case, some barbed wire for somedung beetles that I didn't quite get in focus.

As I walked around our farm today, I saw where an echidna had had a feast ona white ant's nest. The Guava tree has some ripe fruit on it and the NarrowLeafed Ironbarks are flowering.

I found a few Nagura Burrs around the top dam.

A small herd of our cattle are coming alongwell and we hope they will do well in the local Show.

A Grevillia isflowering near the cattle pens as I fed the young cattle who have just beenbranded. The local birds are coming down to get their share of any spilledgrain as the sun sets on our valley.