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Welcome to "B" of the alphabetised month!  If you have not seen or heard of the AtoZ challenge, click the logo on the sidebar to find out more! This blog is not about words, but about pictures telling the story. That said, for this month, there will be a few more than usual typed items and occasionally more than the usual one image per post. 

Australia has an abundance of Beetles! I do love a Bug or two. After all, they are so important for the Balance of ecology and the OZ environmental sensitivity is as any other - perhaps, in some regards, greater. 

I have a small regret that I did not photograph a good deal more of the many beetles around my garden. But this Christmas beetle, on the bougainvillaea in the courtyard, was very obliging. Nowadays, I might not have such an opportunity! (This shot was taken on film and is a scanned photograph - as many in this series are - so not so sharp!)

Everything about Australia is Big! That beetle was about two inches long. The seas are big, the cliffs are big, the land is big, the sky is big...

Then it is almost impossible to talk about Australia without mentioning how incredible are its Birds!!! I was a keen amateur ornithologist from schooldays, so OZ was 'squee' territory! To see lots of my bird photos, click the 'wings' label below or on the sidebar.