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Dr Dave @ecosystemunraveller.com · 03/10/2026

There’s so much beauty. Some fragile and fleeting, some lasting and deep. Pausing to recognise that whenever I can helps me to keep on keeping on. Reminds me why I do this.

Shed flower of a kangaroo flower on a clean* scrubbed brick. Fragile petals are mauve fading to a white centre with delicate yellow edging. Gorgeous.

*except for the fresh duck poo in the corner

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Dr Dave @ecosystemunraveller.com · 03/10/2026

When I went to check on the poultry, water was sheeting into the chook pen. I’d cleverly left the rake there completely on purpose and, with vigorous scraping, freed months of caked on duck shit. All rinsed off. What’s that thing about never letting a crisis go to waste? Look at those bricks now!

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Dr Dave @ecosystemunraveller.com · 03/10/2026

There’s life in the air. New growth on trees, massed blossoms pulsating with bees and flies. Warm and wet is an uncommon combo where we are. Until now. Lots of breeding activity and new arrivals. So much growth, potential you can see unfurling…

Young eucalypt flush with new growth—smaller waxier leaves at the ends of small upright branches, a yellow tinge to the lime green. The tree is maybe 3 m tall, in a grove of other young ‘uns, larger trees peeking out of a thick grassy sward in the background. White-browed woodswallows then distracted me and no detailed photographs were taken.

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Dr Dave @ecosystemunraveller.com · 03/10/2026

On the domestic front, one of our outbuildings flooded—the laundry. All sorted, no dramas, but only because we had installed cut-off drains all the way around the house when we finished extending it. Animals are all fine, loving it, and the wildlife likewise—everything is thriving.

Wild type muscovy duck ato a gleaming pile of rain blasted rocks. Proper duck that, black with a good posture and confirmation. Large white blaze in the wing, with bright red skin around eye and base of beak. Resplendent.

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Dr Dave @ecosystemunraveller.com · 03/10/2026

We had 83mm of rain yesterday, first decent drop after four weeks of no rain. Very welcome but quite intense—half of that fell in less than an hour. Water sheeting everywhere, dams overflowing. I realised just how much we need to learn if we want to keep living in an increasingly energetic world…

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Dr Dave @ecosystemunraveller.com · 03/10/2026

Dams still overtopping but fences, beasts and buildings all bueno.

A very full dam with a horse investigating the new water line and a mule up close investigating me. Reflections of large yellow box complete the moist scene.

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Dr Dave @ecosystemunraveller.com · 01/10/2026

Superb! Here’s one of our beauties…

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Dr Dave @ecosystemunraveller.com · 01/10/2026

Sixty seconds of tranquil goats for your timeline…

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Dr Dave @ecosystemunraveller.com · 30/09/2026

Good morning. Rain on the way…

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Dr Dave @ecosystemunraveller.com · 27/09/2026

Now resting after a slow braise in spicy tomato juice.

Unctuous racks of ribs in a deep red sauce gleaming with rendered far. The previously dry puckered meat is now slipping from the bone.

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Dr Dave @ecosystemunraveller.com · 26/09/2026

Smoked goat ribs and pork snags over plum. Smells fantabulous.

Dodgy looking double decker offset smoker arrangement. Eight skinny sausages above, goat ribs below.

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Dr Dave @ecosystemunraveller.com · 24/09/2026

Morning all. And hey—it’s Friday!

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Dr Dave @ecosystemunraveller.com · 21/09/2026

Morning all Going to the Henty feild days…

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Dr Dave @ecosystemunraveller.com · 21/09/2026

Regarding the latest survey data on Australian’s wildlife knowledge, I responded thusly…

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Dr Dave @ecosystemunraveller.com · 21/09/2026

Inspired by our trip to the coast, Maggie snagged these two beauties…

Detail of a granite kitchen bench with paper wrapped fish from the supermarket (Mullet Xlarge Seabelly, 1.575 kg, $13.99 per kg; 22.03) beside the skin of a blood orange and a tin of cumin seeds

Outdoor grill with two big dark grey bullet shaped fish, placed belly down. Backs speckle with cumin seed. Empty vegie beds and cordwood masonry chook shed in the background

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Dr Dave @ecosystemunraveller.com · 19/09/2026

Gave the plenary address at the Birdlife Shoalhaven Bird Haven Festival. Here, I’m using one month of daily species richness estimates from acoustic sensors to quantify turnover. In this woodland, what we detected any day is less than half of what’s there in a month—that’s a lot of turnover!

Dr Dave on stage in a flannel shirt microphone in hand. Behind him is a screen with an image of a whole lot of apple turnovers

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Dr Dave @ecosystemunraveller.com · 16/09/2026

She’s settling in so well. And she now has a name—Stella!

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Dr Dave @ecosystemunraveller.com · 16/09/2026

The kids have started glitching.

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Dr Dave @ecosystemunraveller.com · 14/09/2026

Morning all. Just had three swans fly over, infrequent visitors to our place…

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Dr Dave @ecosystemunraveller.com · 14/09/2026

We just got a new dog—just look at this little scamp! She’s 12 weeks old, a Cardigan Welsh Corgi X Lagotto Romagnolo to keep a close eye on our poultry from marauding foxes. In related news, will be chatting with @dontattempt.bsky.social just after 8 about all things doggo.

A scruffy black and white pupper sitting on clover.

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Dr Dave @ecosystemunraveller.com · 13/09/2026

Plenty of turtles nesting at our place. Pepper is good at finding every one. #TurtleHound

Head and forequarters of a hairless grey dog, intently focused down at something in long lush grass. Your eyes follow her gaze and there, yess. Right there. Turtle!

Portrait of the successful turtle hound, smiling and panting, the naked skin looking sort of pig-ish. Dog has a happy demeanour, mistress of her domain.

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