Crested Pigeons have increased from the odd bird a few years ago, to the point where we now see small flocks feeding or perched on power lines. They are frequently seen in the garden too, and are often taken by marauding Brown Goshawks.

Common Bronzewings have always been occasional garden visitors, and like the Cresteds clean up any feed grain left by cattle in the paddock.

Scarlet Honeyeaters have been very numerous this season, and this nice male has been competing with the New Hollands for nectar from the grevillea and hakea flowers.

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First, this little huntsman spider is very wary and fast, quick to hide under the ledge in the raked brick joint when it sees the camera approaching.

Isopedella victorialis.

Tickled out into full view with a piece of grass.

Also hanging out in a brick joint, a tiny Hypoblemum villosum.

Also tiny, a probable Menemerus bivittatus. This species likes to inhabit sunny walls.

And on a Red Gum, a small crab spider snapped on the move, Tharpyna decorata.

There are still quite a lot of wasps about, here are the latest snaps.

And a mating pair.

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