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David Poyner

@davidpoyner.bsky.social

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🦘Environmental qualifications, but now a retired IT professional. Gardener of Australian native plants. PoGo player, Dog Dad. Lives on Barngarla country.

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David Poyner @davidpoyner.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Very cute as littilies - these were in a Flinders Ranges Wattle in my backyard a few years ago

A view through some branches and leaves of a mother Crested Pigeon sitting on a nest with two feathered baby pigeons snuggled up next to her.

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David Poyner @davidpoyner.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Reminded me to do that - big difference before and after. I should know I need to do it due to the awful effort it’s putting in and the associated noise.

Air purifier display reading 12 with a red circular border

Air purifier display reading 4 with a blue circular border

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David Poyner @davidpoyner.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Whyalla - 9 degrees above forcast

A screen clip from the BOM weather page for Whyalla, SA. showing a current temp of 46.6 and a forecast temp of 37.

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David Poyner @davidpoyner.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Sometimes the plants in my garden that I didn’t plant are just as good as the ones I did. Senna, two species of Eremophila and a Zygophyllum (which are everywhere atm)

A photo of a Senna species covered in yellow flowers

A photo of an Eremophila species covered in red tubular flowers

A photo of an Eremophila species covered in white tubular flowers.

A photo of a Zygophyllum species covered in yellow, four petal flowers

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David Poyner @davidpoyner.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Ours don’t have such luxury - their “Chicken Palace” (a commercial product -out of sight in this shot) has some wooden perches and wood shavings on the floor. Still better off than battery hens though ;-)

A variety of different coloured hens in their coop scratching among vegetable scraps on the ground.

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David Poyner @davidpoyner.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Supposedly some rain coming - won't be enough, but it could be a start.

BOM forcast rainfall map showing forecast of 15-25mm rain in the next eight days over populated areas of South Australia

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David Poyner @davidpoyner.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Both I'd say. We've had record low rainfall for a 12 month period. Whyalla would normally get an average of 275mm annually (so we are officially semi-arid to start with), but for the last 12 months we've only had 153mm. Pelted down on Saturday for several minutes - we got 0.4mm.

Map of Australia from the BOM showing record low rainfall in South Australia for the last twelve months.

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David Poyner @davidpoyner.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

We’ve had a Goshawk hang around for a while before, a young Osprey visited one morning, and we had a Kestrel sleep in our garaport, but this one has me stumped. It wasn’t very big, I thought it was a Red Wattle Bird at first.

Large grey bird sitting on a bird bath on the edge of a lawn

Large white and brown bird sitting in a diagonal branch of a eucalyptus tree

Small bird of prey sitting on a steel beam

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David Poyner @davidpoyner.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Sandy, you’ll probably know. What’s this on my back lawn today? Sorry for quality, it’s a zoomed phone photo, I didn’t want to disturb him as he was obviously very hot. He got under the sprinkler later.

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David Poyner @davidpoyner.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

The Bullock Bushes in our chook yard have just started fruiting - soon they will be covered in red and black as the seed pods burst open.

Photo of a Bullock Bush with small round green fruits which have burst open revealing small round black seeds covered in a fleshy red aril.

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David Poyner @davidpoyner.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Here's today's efforts - the issues in Whyalla have nothing to do with renewable energy or gas shortages and I suspect that some of those residents (who I know) would be horrified at how their quotes have been woven into this propaganda piece.

Screenshot of the online edition of The Advertiser with headings "Trump's Australia: Blue collar backlash to city elites' climate agenda" and "Jobs wipeout, food security fears grow as gas shortage looms"

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David Poyner @davidpoyner.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Following up with:

The Advertiser online article titled: Energy illiterate politicians have undermined our power grid and will leave our nation poorer and weaker | Chris Uhlmann

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David Poyner @davidpoyner.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

It's in the Advertiser as well. I can't see any evidence of it being advertising, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was.

A screenshot of the main headlines from the online edition of The Advertiser 02/12/2024 with three stories about how important gas is.

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David Poyner @davidpoyner.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I was wondering why the bull ant on the ground in front of me was snapping its pincers as it ran. On closer inspection, it wasn’t an ant at all. I wish I could have got a more natural looking shot, but she wasn’t very cooperative!

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