Australasian Swamphen (Porphyrio melanotus)

This little guy really loved the lettuce we brought to feed to the turtles. The turtles didn't touch it, but the Swamphens couldn't get enough!

Sandgate, Queensland, Australia

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Torresian Crow (Corvus orru)

The crows are here are really timid, and easily scared off by other birds and people. This one wanted to see what we were up to as we were feeding turtles, but didn't want to get too close!

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Pied Stilt (Himantopus leucocephalus)

A young pied stilt walking through the wetlands just before sunset

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So, y'all got any more of that ah... lettuce?

Australasian Swamphen (Porphyrio melanotus)

Sandgate, Queensland, Australia

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Eastern Short-necked Turtle

Sandgate, Queensland, Australia

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Salt Crystals

A salt encrusted leaf on the dried bed of Kedron Brook Wetlands


The leaf was on the bed of a dried up lake bed, above the high tide line, in tidal wetlands. It was a dry end to summer, and the lake water in the wetlands had retreated, leaving a large section of the salty muddy lakebed to dry out in the sun, covered with organic material.

As it lay in the sun, the leaf dehydrated, expelling salty water through its pores. Each tiny pore gradually growing long thin crystals of hair, as new salty water came through the pore and evaporated. The leaf likely continued to pull even more salty water from the mud below it as it happened, letting the crystals grow even longer than they otherwise might have.

The crystals themselves are likely made of Magnesium sulfate (Epsom salt) rather than regular table salt, as the hair like structure is typical of this type of salt.

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Australian Pelicans (Pelecanus conspicillatus)

Kedron Brook Wetlands Reserve, Queensland, Australia

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Keith Boden Wetlands, Meanjin, Queensland, Australia

High ISO shot. Noise reduction done in Darktable, which unfortunately, does not have the best noise reduction out there.

OM-1 Mark II / M.Zuiko Digital ED 300mm F4.0 IS PRO

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Royal Spoonbill (Platalea regia)

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Pacific Black Duck (Anas superciliosa) [OC]

Keith Boden Wetlands, Brisbane/Meanjin, Australia

Taken with an OM-1 Mk II / M.Zuiko Digital ED 300mm F4.0 IS PRO

Post processing completed in Darktable