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White-faced heron	©Christine Linton

Christine Linton: I am a textile artist using mixed media, fibres and hand-made books.

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Boobook Owl

The Boobook Owl is one of the smallest and most common of Australia's owls, found everywhere including towns and cities. It is often...
Pied Cormorant preening

Pied Cormorant preening ©Christine Linton This cormorant was drying his wings in the typical "batman" pose; by the time I had ...
Rainbow Lorikeets

The Rainbow Lorikeet is a very striking bird, which we see all the time in Adelaide. Every tree with blossom, and many without, holds larg...
Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo - what characters!

I noticed some sulphur-crested cockatoos over at the oval, and watched them for ages, they have such interest in their surroundings, investi...
The beauty of birds

I find it doesn't matter whether a bird is native to Australia, a feral bird, in the wild, a pet or a zoo exhibit - whenever I see a bir...
Feathers

In this photo, the feathers in the wing are reasonably clearly shown considering I was on the other side of the lake. As you can see from t...
Budgerigar - always popular

The ever-popular budgie is well-known worldwide as a talkative, trainable cagebird, but in Australia, their native country, they are seen i...
Purple Swamphen

In the Adelaide Botanic Gardens yesterday I was photographing the waterlily pond - a giant stretch of large waterlilies beside a natural-loo...
Galah

The Galah is much-loved in suburban Adelaide for its funny antics amongst the treetops and the way you can get quite close to them when the...