Photos from Steve Benjamin

Double Barred Finches

Painted button quail

Satin Bower Bird

Yellow Tufted Honeyeater

Steve is a visitor to our valley and calls home Batemans Bay on the NSW South Coast.

Echidna

found near the road.  Usually they are hard to photograph as the stick their head between their front legs.

Bird Photos by Steve Benjamin

Regent Honeyeater

Scarlet Honeyeater

White-browed Woodswallow female at nest

Hooded Robin

It's nice to see another new contributor to our Capertee Valley blogs and I look forward to more from him and others.

Volunteer Fire Fighters Training Night

Members of Bogee, Rylstone and Clandulla Rural Fire Brigades (RFS) attended a training night at the Bogee RFS shed this week to be trained in fire fighting where flammable liquids are involved.  It also enabled the fire fighters to practice use of  equipment at night.

Each fire fighter had the opportunity to 'have a go'.  The Bogee training officer had his junior trainees from Kandos High School take part.

Its good to know that our volunteers are fully qualified to meet almost any eventuality.  Over 50 volunteer fire fighters were present  The 'car' is merely a shell specially designed and has gas pipes attached and gas is relesed into the vehicle from a gas cylinder nearby.  The training unit arrives on a vehicle trailer.

Thank you 'firies' and thank you Bogee RFS for being so proactive.

Rainbow over Airly by Margaret White

Young Swallows by Margaret White

last two of four swallows at Airly just before they left the nest

Gang Gang Cockatoos by David Weaver

Female in Acacia

Male

Airly Homestead by Franny White

Black-Fronted Plover, photo Donna Upton

This bird had laid 3 eggs at the side of a dirt road in the Capertee Valley.  Concerned residents placed a road barrier around the nest in the hope that this would give the bird half a chance to hatch the eggs.

Reflections, Capertee River

Wedge-tailed Eagle photo, more from Steve Tredinnick

Valley mist

Wedge-tailed Eagle in the Capertee Valley, photos by Steve Tredinnick

Bottlebrush on top of Mt Airly

Sunset at Last Penny photo by Nicole Buca

Airly Homestead in the Capertee Valley, NSW

During renovation,  the old steel roof material was removed and  the original timber shingles were found.  They appeared to be in fairly good condition.  The new roof steel roof can be seen over the verandah.  A snapshot in history.

Regent Honeyeater off Glen Davis Road, photo by Vicki Powys

Sunset near the top end of Dunville Loop, Capertee Valley

Lightning in the Capertee Valley by Vicki Powys

Late afternoon at the Rylstone Show

the building at centre left which is attracting a huge crowd is the Bar

The new generation of tree planters in the Capertee Valley