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@pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 11, 2026, 12:13 AM

The local Pauline Outta Tronno campaign is stepping up, laying out the whys and wherefores.

Text on a paste-up:

Pauline Hanson Voted Against:

- wage increases for workers;
- childcare funding for families;
- housing affordability policies;
- public school funding;
- renter's rights.

Pauline Outta Tronno.

@pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 10, 2026, 7:41 AM

Anyone have a clue what this insect is? There's a few of them around the house, along with a bazillion moths and hoverflies.

Edit: apparently a crane fly.

#LakeMacquarie #InsectIdentification

A very leggy winged insect with a skinny orange body, faint lines across it. The wings a thin and transparent. It is sitting on bright green palm leaves.

@pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 9, 2026, 12:52 AM

Newcastle line trains out due to freight train broken down. Buses running between Fassifern and Newcastle instead. We're getting to Glendale to catch a 13 from there instead.

#LakeMacquarie #NewcastleAU #NewcastleNSW

@pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 9, 2026, 12:31 AM

[Spider]

Bus stop spider. Saint Andrew's cross.

#spiders #LakeMacquarie

May contain graphic violence

@pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 6, 2026, 2:11 AM

The musk lorikeets around here usually fly high and stick to the high gum blossoms, so I rarely get to see them properly. Lately though, they've been getting into the red bottlebrush which gives me a fighting chance.

#LakeMacquarie #BirdsOfOz #parrots

A small green parrot with splashes of red and yellow is hanging upside down, with its face in a red bottlebrush flower. The other flowers will get their turn, there are rainbow lorikeets and noisy miners that visit this tree frequently too.

A small green parrot with splashes of red, yellow, and blue is hanging over a red bottlebrush flower. It has stopped feeding to look up and see me taking its photo.

@pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 6, 2026, 2:00 AM

From this morning's walk into Toronto NSW for groceries, a willy wagtail sitting on its finely crafted nest over water.

#LakeMacquarie #BirdsOfOz

A black and white bird sits on a beautifully crafted mud nest in the shape of a cup, affixed to a skinny branch on a dead casuarina tree. Beneath is murky green water.

@pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 4, 2026, 7:45 AM

We sat down at the lake today with chips and a couple of beers, before facing up to the stupor market. Quite a few yacht races on the go. Here's a small group of one race returning to the Toronto yacht club.

#LakeMacquarie

A string of white sails on little one-person yachts. Bright blue water under a blue sky with scattered low cloud.

@pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 4, 2026, 7:32 AM

Inn the walk into Toronto NSW today, a dusky moorhen poking about in a storm water drain.

#lakemacquarie #birdsofoz

A small black water bird with a red face and white bum poking about on a very full skinny drain with lots of greenery around it.

@geniaus.bsky.social Sep 26, 2026, 7:33 AM

#AlphabetChallenge

#WeekLforLookingIn
Looking in #LakeMacquarie at #CareyBay #Australia today.

@pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 25, 2026, 11:42 PM

Yesterday we caught the bus to Teralba and walked to Speers Point for a picnic. Here's a selection of birds seen along the way.

#LakeMacquarie #BirdsOfOz

An Australian pelican, white with black wings and a pink bill, is paddling on Cockle Creek. The creek water is cloudy, and the pelican is heading into the shadows of mangrove trees.

A distant shot of two pelicans on the water near a floating platform at the edge of Cockle Creek, with mangroves and casuarina trees behind.

A darter sits on rocks at the edge of a road alongside Cockle Creek. Across the water are mangroves and casuarina trees.

Four wood ducks on a grassy area. All were sitting until I disturbed them by stopping and looking; now three are standing.

@pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 25, 2026, 5:18 AM

[Food, non-veg]

Afternoon picnic at Lake Mac. Braised chicken, pickled egg, artichokes, long grain rice in tiffins. Glass of Shiraz. View. 👍

#LakeMacquarie #picnic #tiffins

May contain graphic violence

@pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 22, 2026, 2:40 AM

Spring is bouncing well. Yesterday, shorts and 36°C. Today I'm in jeans and the day is struggling towards its 20°C forecast max. Back to hot by the weekend.

#LakeMacquarie #WeatherTootin

@pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 8, 2026, 1:13 AM

Seeing this stuck up around Toronto NSW recently, like this one on a bin. I'm guessing anti One Notion? Definitely a hyper-local campaign 🙂

#AusPol #LakeMacquarie