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Paula Peeters
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Ecologist, Author, Artist | Naturejournaling teacher | Lamington Natural History Association editor | Art, science & Australian nature | Yugambeh Country, Beechmont, Australia
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For weeks I’ve been hearing the calls of our resident Brown Thornbills, mixed in with the eerie downward trills of the Shining Bronze-cuckoo.

They have an ecological partnership, of sorts. It may make you feel squeamish… But is it a horror story?

#birds #birdwatching #ecology #cartoon #Australia
November 16, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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a cartoon drawing of 33 native species of bird I heard from my deck, while having a cup of tea, on the first of November 2025
November 15, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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The 10 species of kingfisher native to Australia 🙂

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Colour illustration of the 10 species of kingfisher native to Australia, including 2 species of kookaburra
February 26, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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I’m taking a break from social media - and loving it so much I may not be back 🤓

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You can also contact me by email: paula.peeters@paperbarkwriter.com
January 8, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Day 25 of my nature advent calendar. Each day is celebrated with a drawing of local nature happenings around this place (Beechmont) at this time of year. This is a Hyacinth Orchid, which gets its carbs from eucalypt trees, via the Russula mycorrhizal fungus #natureadventcalendar #artadventcalendar
Photo of a square envelope, made with decorative purple and black paper, with a large hand-drawn number 25 on the front. It is open at the top to slot in a drawing. The drawing (at the side of the envelope) is of Hyacinth Orchid.
December 28, 2024 at 2:00 AM
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Day 24 of my nature advent calendar. Each day is celebrated with a drawing of local nature happenings around this place (Beechmont) at this time of year. This is a Laughing Kookaburra sitting on a blue buddha, in a neighbour's front yard. #natureadventcalendar #artadventcalendar
Photo of a square envelope, made with decorative purple and black paper, with a large hand-drawn number 24 on the front. It is open at the top to slot in a drawing. The drawing (at the side of the envelope) is of a Laughing Kookaburra sitting on a smiling blue buddha statue.
December 28, 2024 at 1:53 AM
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Day 23 of my nature advent calendar. Each day is celebrated with a drawing of local nature happenings around this place (Beechmont) at this time of year. This is the White-throated Treecreeper, calling in misty eucalypt forest #natureadventcalendar #artadventcalendar
Photo of a square envelope, made with decorative purple and black paper, with a large hand-drawn number 23 on the front. It is open at the top to slot in a drawing. The drawing (at the side of the envelope) is of a White-throated Treecreeper perched on the side of a tree trunk, with misty trees in the background.
December 28, 2024 at 1:46 AM
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Day 22 of my nature advent calendar. Each day is celebrated with a drawing of local nature happenings around this place (Beechmont) at this time of year. This is Ray talking to a Pale-yellow Robin. #natureadventcalendar #artadventcalendar
Photo of a square envelope, made with decorative purple and black paper, with a large hand-drawn number 22 on the front. It is open at the top to slot in a drawing. The drawing is of a Pale-yellow Robin, with a man in the background saying 'peep peep'.
December 24, 2024 at 4:46 AM
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Day 20 of my nature advent calendar. Each day is celebrated with a drawing of local nature happenings around this place (Beechmont) at this time of year. This is a Red-necked Pademelon (Thylogale thetis), a small wallaby that lives on rainforest edges. #natureadventcalendar #artadventcalendar
Photo of a square envelope, made with decorative purple and black paper, with a large hand-drawn number 20 on the front. It is open at the top to slot in a drawing. The drawing is of a Red-necked Pademelon (small wallaby that lives on rainforest edges).
December 24, 2024 at 4:31 AM
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Day 21 of my nature advent calendar. Each day is celebrated with a drawing of local nature happenings around this place (Beechmont) at this time of year. This is a Lewin's Honeyeater collecting dog fluff from where we stash it in the White Beech tree. #natureadventcalendar #artadventcalendar
Photo of a square envelope, made with decorative purple and black paper, with a large hand-drawn number 21 on the front. It is open at the top to slot in a drawing. The drawing is of a Lewin's Honeyeater getting dog fluff for its nest from (where we put it) in a White Beech tree.
December 24, 2024 at 4:16 AM
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Day 19 of my nature advent calendar. Each day is celebrated with a drawing of local nature happenings around this place (Beechmont) at this time of year. This is dad Australian Wood duck raising his 3 ducklings solo. We think mum was hit by a car. #natureadventcalendar #artadventcalendar
Photo of a square envelope, made with decorative purple and black paper, with a large hand-drawn number 19 on the front. It is open at the top to slot in a drawing. The drawing (at the side of the envelope) is of a male Australian Wood Duck and 3 ducklings.
December 22, 2024 at 1:23 AM
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Day 18 of my nature advent calendar. Each day is celebrated with a drawing of local nature happenings around this place (Beechmont) at this time of year. Leeches remind me that I'm part of the ecosystem. They're hard to avoid on rainy days. #natureadventcalendar #artadventcalendar
Photo of a square envelope, made with decorative purple and black paper, with a large hand-drawn number 18 on the front. It is open at the top to slot in a drawing. The drawing (at the side of the envelope) is of different ways we encounter leeches: standing still on a wall like a picture hook; standing upright on a wet boot; attached to a pad of a dog's paw; in a bloody sock.
December 22, 2024 at 1:14 AM
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When you go to the gallery, but don't make it inside because it's just so nice to sit and draw the beautiful Bodhi tree near the entrance 😁 #qagoma #brisbane #sketching
December 18, 2024 at 10:50 PM
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Day 17 of my nature advent calendar. Each day is celebrated with a drawing of local nature happenings around this place (Beechmont) at this time of year. Here are 2 Wonga Pigeons in nesting mode. #natureadventcalendar #artadventcalendar #naturejournal #birds
Photo of a square envelope, made with decorative purple and black paper, with a large hand-drawn number 17 on the front. It is open at the top to slot in a drawing. The drawing is of a Wonga Pigeon carrying a stick, and another Wonga Pigeon in the background, calling 'woop woop woop woop woop.'
December 17, 2024 at 6:04 AM
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Day 16 of my nature advent calendar. Each day is celebrated with a drawing of local nature happenings around this place (Beechmont) at this time of year. This is a Blue-banded Bee visiting the flower of Scurvy Weed, Commelina diffusa #natureadventcalendar #artadventcalendar
Photo of a square envelope, made with decorative purple and black paper, with a large hand-drawn number 16 on the front. It is open at the top to slot in a drawing. The drawing is of a Blue-banded Bee visiting the blue flower of a Commelina plant.
December 16, 2024 at 1:30 AM
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Day 15 of my nature advent calendar. Each day is celebrated with a drawing of local nature happenings around this place (Beechmont) at this time of year. This is Kangaroo Grass, Themeda triandra, one of the many native grasses flowering abundantly right now #natureadventcalendar #artadventcalendar
Photo of a square envelope, made with decorative purple and black paper, with a large hand-drawn number 15 on the front. It is open at the top to slot in a drawing. The drawing is of flowering stems of the Kangaroo Grass, Themeda triandra.
December 16, 2024 at 1:19 AM
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Day 14 of my nature advent calendar. Each day is celebrated with a drawing of local nature happenings around this place (Beechmont) at this time of year. Here are a pair of Spangled Drongoes chasing away a Sulphur-crested Cockatoo #natureadventcalendar #artadventcalendar #birds #parrot
Photo of a square envelope, made with decorative purple and black paper, with a large hand-drawn number 14 on the front. It is open at the top to slot in a drawing. The drawing is of 2 Spangled Drongoes chasing away a Sulphur-crested Cockatoo.
December 14, 2024 at 5:52 AM
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Day 13 of my nature advent calendar. Each day is celebrated with a drawing of local nature happenings around this place (Beechmont) at this time of year. This is the Lace Monitor I've chased out of the chook shed 3 times in the last 2 days. #natureadventcalendar #artadventcalendar #reptile
Photo of a square envelope, made with decorative purple and black paper, with a large hand-drawn number 13 on the front. It is open at the top to slot in a drawing. The drawing is of a Lace Monitor (large lizard) with two hens in tha background looking alarmed.
December 14, 2024 at 3:29 AM
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Day 12 of my nature advent calendar. Each day is celebrated with a drawing of local nature happenings around this place (Beechmont) at this time of year. This Orange-eyed Treefrog (Litoria chloris) has been calling on rainy nights. #natureadventcalendar #artadventcalendar
#frogs
Photo of a square envelope, made with decorative purple and black paper, with a large hand-drawn number 11 on the front. It is open at the top to slot in a drawing. The drawing is of a green treefrog with a yellow belly and orange-red eyes, climbing up a wall.
December 14, 2024 at 3:16 AM
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Day 11 of my nature advent calendar. Each day is celebrated with a drawing of local nature happenings around this place (Beechmont) at this time of year. These are 2 fungi that appeared recently: the orange mushroom is probably mycorrhizal with Eucalyptus #natureadventcalendar #artadventcalendar
Photo of a square envelope, made with decorative purple and black paper, with a large hand-drawn number 11 on the front. It is open at the top to slot in a drawing. The drawing is of an orange mushroom and a reddish anemone-type stinkhorn fungus.
December 14, 2024 at 2:53 AM
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Day 10 of my nature advent calendar. Each day is celebrated with a drawing of local nature happenings around this place (Beechmont) at this time of year. Here are male & female satin bowerbirds, eating the leaves of green beans in the vegie garden #natureadventcalendar #artadventcalendar
Photo of a square envelope, made with decorative purple and black paper, with a large hand-drawn number 10 on the front. It is open at the top to slot in a drawing. The drawing is of a male and female satin bowerbird, eating leaves of a green bean vine.
December 10, 2024 at 7:12 AM
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Day 9 of my nature advent calendar. Each day is celebrated with a drawing of local nature happenings around this place (Beechmont) at this time of year. These are fruits of Watkin's Fig (Ficus watkinsiana) - a rainforest tree - at various stages of ripeness #natureadventcalendar #artadventcalendar
Photo of a square envelope, made with decorative purple and black paper, with a large hand-drawn number 9 on the front. It is open at the top to slot in a drawing. The drawing is of 4 figs (from a Watkin's Fig - a rainforest tree) at various stages of ripeness.
December 9, 2024 at 8:16 AM
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Day 8 of my nature advent calendar. Each day is celebrated with a drawing of local nature happenings around this place (Beechmont) at this time of year. This is a Rose-crowned Fruit-dove, calling from a hidden place. #natureadventcalendar #artadventcalendar #naturejournal
Photo of a square envelope, made with decorative purple and black paper, with a large hand-drawn number 8 on the front. It is open at the top to slot in a drawing. The drawing is of a rose-crowned fruit-dove, with a cartoon bubble emerging from its beak. The cartoon bubble describes its call: "wook-ook! Wook-ook! Wook-ook!"
December 8, 2024 at 1:12 AM
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No idea who this extremely miniature Hemipteran is, but I like his lava lamps
Tiny sculpted bronze-y true bug, a little nugget, roaming past a yellow glowing egg-like fungus(?) in the Wet Wood World The creature amongst a handful of the strange glowing lava lamp things Close shot of the bug. He's got large compound eyes, reminiscent of a Big-eyed Bug
December 7, 2024 at 3:52 AM
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Day 7 of my nature advent calendar. Each day is celebrated with a drawing of local nature happenings around this place (Beechmont) at this time of year. This is me walking my dogs in the summer rain, on a warm, misty afternoon #natureadventcalendar #artadventcalendar
Photo of a square envelope, made with decorative purple and black paper, with a large hand-drawn number 7 on the front. It is open at the top to slot in a drawing. The drawing (at the side of the envelope) is of a person in a magenta raincoat walking 2 dogs (in black raincoats) beside a forest of tall Eucalyptus trees.
December 7, 2024 at 4:02 AM