Highlights from September included a Brown Striped Skink, Murnong (Yam Daisy), an Eastern Brown Snake and some Preying Mantids hatching from an ootheca.

We’ve received funding to complete our 13 km boundary fence! This will protect our 490-hectare conservation property from over-grazing and damage by goats, pigs and kangaroos.

My 2021 entry for the threatened species bake-off. The annual baking competition is held just prior to Threatened Species Day on September 7th.

Dark emu is in the sky, the emus have laid their eggs, but I’ve been looking at their poo.

The weirdest-looking seed and swarms of bright red bugs.

Casey the excavator is used to treat rabbit warrens, for fencing, and precision weeding of Spiny Rush.

A mob of 53 Pink Cockatoos feeding on native Pine and … grapes

A rare chance to see the bats of the Mallee up close.

Well, we made it to number seven. But I’m not sure the list of Australian butterflies most likely to go extinct is a list that you want to top.

Tree planting is complete for the 2021 season. Our planting technique this year involved an excavator and one tonne of pelletised worm castings!

Fleas that stick to bogans, and make the dog wear boots right? Not quite.

If you’re a cicada, this is the last thing you’ll see before half of your head is ripped off. This Katydid is a unique example of “aggressive acoustic mimicry”.

Finally we have the trifecta of Fairywren photographs! These three beauties are all found on Raakajlim.

This Spider Wasp dragged a Wolf Spider for 55 metres to stash it in her nesting burrow.

Juvenile birds can have odd colors, stripes or weird bits, totally different to the adults, just to make things tricky.

A bird which eats, sleeps, drinks, mates and bathes on the wing and has a strange affinity with radar-shielding fluff.

In the Mallee, it is essential to water the trees and shrubs we plant, to make sure the revegetation survives the tough first summer. This is Phil's clever watering set-up to make it just a little easier.

We are trialing cocoon planters to increase the survival and growth rate of our tube-stock for revegetation. January update.

Sandhill Wattle is a major component of our revegetation program. But it is also a bit of a rock star with many unique characters.

Is the colonising flight of thousands of termites a good or a bad thing?