Sarah Durrant

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Living in Tasmania AU, sharing our 'Land for Wildlife' property with an amazing array of native species.
If not out nurturing the veggie patch can be found in my studio at the weaving loom, though often curtailed by challenges of chronic health - MS & more. Owner of a once crazy Labrador.

#wildlife #wildoz #cameratrapping #birding
#environment #renewables #climatechange #sustainability
#weaving #knitting #textiles
#auspol #politas #tasmania

Sarah DurrantMar 11
I didn’t immediately recognise this bird while it was flying around, but got a clear view when it settled on a dead tree - a Pallid #cuckoo. #WildOz #Birding #Tasmania #Nature #Birds
Sarah DurrantFeb 27
Now that I’ve again got a working cassette player, I’ve been listening to Emerson, Lake & Palmer #ELP Works, from 1977. At the time, I don’t think I appreciated they were a ‘super group’ - from #TheNice, #KingCrimson & #AtomicRooster.
Not heard these tapes for decades, yet I still know every lyric, and Greg Lake’s vocals still have the ability to make me go weak at the knees. #music
Sarah DurrantFeb 25
Tuesday 24th February’s 1st Quarter #Moon (in a clear #Tasmanian sky but on a bit of a shaky tripod).
#Photography #Astronomy #SoTas #Nikon
Sarah DurrantFeb 21
Taken through the lounge room window: A #Bennetts #Wallaby pondering the meaning of life, the universe and everything.
#WildOz #mammals #nature #Tasmania #wildlife
Sarah DurrantFeb 20
Another pic through the kitchen window. This guy, a Brush #Bronzewing, seems desperate to set up home here with a mate. For around 3 weeks he’s been oooom ooooming, barely pausing for breath, dawn to dusk. (Don’t know about him, but it’s exhausting me.) #birds #WildOz #Nature #birding #Tasmania
Sarah DurrantFeb 12
Another grab shot through the lounge window. Only the last 3 years that I’ve found #Latham’s #Snipe staying here a couple of months or so each year & this the closest one’s been to the house. This guy’s a solitary resident, afaik, & rated #vulnerable
#WildOz #birding #LandForWildlife #nature #birds
Sarah DurrantFeb 9
Taken through the lounge room window, Green Rosellas (one of #Tasmania’s 12 endemic birds) having a feast on the Dogwood seed capsules. #WildOz #Birds #Birding #Nature #Parrots
Sarah DurrantFeb 6
I put the spare #CameraTrapping #TrailCamera onto the potting shed near the house, as I has suspicions that 'someone' was using the area underneath. The 'someone' was/were 2 #Endangered Eastern Quolls, 1 being the beautiful dark morph.
#WildOz #Tasmania #LandForWildlife #mammals #nature #wildlife
Sarah DurrantJan 27

#NowPlaying
Forever Changes by Love, 1967

Introduced to me by a boyfriend I was seeing in the late 70s (he still has excellent taste).
I really love this album though it initially flopped on release

More than a couple of tracks that are a great fit for today’s screwed up world.
#Music

Sarah DurrantJan 26

After waiting 10 yrs since planting for our 50 Blue & Black gum trees to have their 1st flowering, Spring ‘25 they finally did.

And today I sighted the 1st 2 Swift parrots (critically endangered) to feed on those trees.

Well worth the wait!

We’ve had occasional visits to random trees in the past, but we planted those seedlings specifically for any Swift parrots that came foraging. They face massive threats to survival from forestry destroying their habitat, to Sugar Gliders eating the adult females.
(Pic is an old one I took in Bruny)

#WildOz #birds #LandForWildlife #parrots #SwiftParrot