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Sarah Durrant
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#Tasmania/lutruwita, on #LandForWildlife with diverse native animal & bird life. MBE in a drawer with past UK life. Now retired & #weave #knit Chronic health issues including #MS. Reigned over by rescue Labrador. #wildlife #birding #wildoz #cameratrapping
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“You’ll be visited by three spirits.”

The three spirits:
An assortment of 3 different bottles of Scotch whisky. These were bought out to Australia from the UK by my brother, for the occasion of my 60th birthday.
November 25, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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Am rediscovering music hidden among the top shelves of my racks. John Cale, Words for the Dying, was released in 1989 but written in 1982 as a response to the Falklands War (of particular significance for me). It’s absolutely mesmerising; can’t walk away until you’ve heard every last lyric and note.
A CD Cover of John Cale’s ‘Words for the Dying’. The background is white with prose handwritten across the full extent of the cover. In front stands a man dressed all in black, with his hands in his pockets and looking directly at the camera. The man is John Cale and his name is written in large red letters across the centre of the cover, with name of the album written in white below.
November 21, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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The neighbourhood Grey #goshawk has been coming & going these past weeks, spending an hour in one of our Eucalypts, before deciding a wattle might suit better. Alas, no feed here on this day - he’s recently taken all 8 of this years #Tasmanian native hen chicks! #wildoz #birds #birdwatching
A Grey goshawk, white morph, which is a very visible all-white bird, in among the branches of a eucalyptus tree, looking around for a potential food source. A Grey goshawk, previously in a eucalyptus, has now moved to a wattle tree. As the bird has all-white feathers, it’s easily seen against the background of green leaves and brown branches.
November 20, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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”Could have sworn I had a joey on board. Where on earth has he gone?”
#WildOz #Marsupials #Tasmania #SoTas
A female Tasmanian pademelon, grey-brown, rotund and furry, who appears to be bending down and checking her pouch. She will not immediately see the very small joey standing nearby, who appears to be taking in the view from a new vantage point.
November 18, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Yep, we’ve got the rainy day blues in our household.
A white labrador tightly curled up in a red chair (that’s really a little too small).
November 7, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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The hillside opposite is obliterated, not by low cloud, not by mist, but by smoke. It’s really not the ideal weather to have a bonfire over there. #SoTas
A rural view in southern Tasmania, with native trees and shrubs, looking across to what would normally be a hillside view. There is instead a coverage of smoke on this still, calm evening, and the smoke is hanging there, not dispersing.
October 1, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Seems you can get a medal for doing so in Sth Korea…..
A post about how Sth Korean soldiers have been awarded Defense medals for rejecting illegal orders during martial law. From www.chosun.com
September 28, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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(reaches into the CD rack)
The cover of the CD by Billy Bragg and Joe Henry, named ‘Shine a Light’. The picture is a sepia toned image of the pair standing inside a railway station, with a sign above them saying ‘To the Trains’.
September 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Something I didn’t mention yesterday was, not long after our #hailstorm from Hell, we experienced the #thunderstorm from Hell. I was standing watching it from the front window.
I don’t believe I’ve ever before seen the detail, close up, of when a strike hits the ground.
(pic for attention)
A white coloured Labrador lying flat out on a cream with multi-coloured floor rug. This picture conveys a sense of calm - which is absolutely not how the thunderstorm event played out.
September 20, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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It just hailed. A furious pelting for quite some time. #SoTas #Tasmania
View through a window of a rural property, showing a thick layer of hail on the deck and table in the foreground, with more settled on the paddock in the mid distance.
September 19, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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Woke up to a heavy frost cover this morning, but the sun has already reached the hillside opposite and thawed much of the freeze. Bbbbrrrrrrrr #SoTas #Tasmania
View across a rural property in Tasmania, showing a heavy white coverage of frost in the foreground. There is a clear blue sky and sun has hit the hillside opposite to thaw the frost from that area already.
September 5, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Just a very light dusting of #snow remains in evidence this morning, but it’s cold enough that the heat pump has stopped working more than once to do a defrost cycle. #Tasmania
A view across a paddock in rural Tasmania, to a wooded hillside that is topped with a dusting of snow. There are random patches of snow in the foreground too.
September 4, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Just a few #snow flurries so far today, and looking unlikely to become anything significant. #SoTas
September 4, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Taken through the dirty window: A couple of Tasmanian Native hens, one of the #Tasmanian endemic birds, wandering past the kitchen and grabbing a bite to eat as they go. #WildOz #birds #birding 🪶
A Tasmanian native hen, standing on stout legs and scaly feet. The bird is buff and grey in colour with a white stripe visible on its flank. Noticeable red eyes and yellow beak. The hen in this second picture is leaning down with its beak in the ground, looking for food.
September 1, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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It’s still #InternationalDogDay elsewhere in the world, so not too late to pop up a pic of Lola, seemingly doing a bit of contemplative thinking in this moody iPad grab-shot 🐶 #Dogs #DogsOfBlueSky
A portrait of a white labrador dog, looking directly at the camera. The picture was shot in available light and half her face is in shade, which highlights the features on the other side. She has a couple of dew drops on her snout as she’s just come inside after a sniff through the wet grass.
August 26, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Getting the side-eye treatment from Lola. She clearly disapproves of having a photo-stop mid walk. #Dogs #DogsOfBluesky
Almost profile portrait of a white coated Labrador, with her eyes looking straight at the camera. The dog is sitting in front of an area of bushland.
August 15, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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They know the drill!

Still putting out wallaby pellets, until we get better grass growth. Up to 24 #Tasmanian pademelons turn up each evening, and these small, distance-separated piles reduce the competition & allow even the old & frail to get a bite to eat. #WildOz #Marsupials #SoTas
A very straight line of four pademelons (chubby little wallabies with grey/brown fur), all head down and each eating from separate small piles of pelleted feed.
August 14, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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They know the drill!

We’re still putting out wallaby pellets, until we get better grass growth. There’s up to 24 #Tasmanian pademelons that turn up each evening, and these small, distance-separated piles reduce the competition & allow even the old & frail to get a bite to eat. #WildOz #Marsupials
A very straight line of four pademelons (chubby little wallabies with grey/brown fur), all head down and each eating from separate small piles of pelleted feed.
August 14, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Was gifted this and was hoping it would be as adorable as its label.
Alas! Not to my taste.
Close up of the label of a small bottle of wine, featuring artwork that has a small dog wearing a helmet and riding a skateboard. The wine is labelled as being from the’Sit Stay Society’.
July 24, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Yes, I know it’s pretty sad, but I still have the T Shirt from #Dylan et al at The #Picnic at Blackbushe aerodrome. That’s from 47 years ago! (And no, it doesn’t still fit me)
A crop of the screenprint on a T shirt. It advertises The Picnic an all day concert that was held at Blackbushe Aerodrome, Camberley UK. The image has a light plane spelling out the words The Picnic in the sky, with a representation of a runway on a green grassed country airfield that names the artists playing the concert: Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Joan Armatrading, Graham Parker and the Rumour and Lake.
July 23, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Been having a marathon #vinyl session,ending up with the live double #LP At Budokan from a relatively young Bob #Dylan in 1978. I remember buying this Dylan #album back then as it was the closest to the setlist I’d seen him perform at ‘The Picnic’ #Blackbushe in ‘78. Never ages (not for me, anyway!)
The cover of the double album Bob Dylan at Budokan. It features a full frame head shot of of a relatively young Dylan, backlit head of curly brown hair, and a couple of days growth or so of facial stubble.
July 23, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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I vote for him! I feel a sense of duty to place him ABSOLUTELY LAST in every election we’ve had. So, essentially, I have to vote for everyone who’s running in order to achieve that placement.
Part of a ballot paper in the recent Tasmanian state election, showing that this voter has placed Eric Abetz absolute last in the ranking.
July 20, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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There was a museum in Arundel, Sussex that I used to visit, full of stuffed oddities done by Walter Potter mostly in the 1800s. There were a number of 2 headed creatures, as well as tableaux of small animals posed in human situations. (Pics from Cornwall Live) www.cornwalllive.com/news/history...
A very small white lamb, with two heads, that has been stuffed for display in a museum, done in the 1800s by Walter Potter. A display from the Walter Potter museum featuring squirrels. The animals are posed as if human, and are sitting at small tables playing cards and drinking port.
June 1, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Yes! The only time I usually sight them on our property is on my #CameraTrap images. Night time, I get the lead from the eye lit up if I’m lucky (like the RH of the 2 birds in this image), but day time I have to scour the pictures of leaf litter to find them in the shots.
A night time, monotone, camera trap shot of an area covered in leaf litter, moss, bark and twigs, with some trees at the rear. To the left of the image is a Bassian thrush, in profile view. The bird blends in well with the background; so much so, that it’s easy to not notice thst there’s actually a second bird in this photo as well.
May 30, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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What a sweetie! Every day, when I go to the kitchen to prepare dinner, Lola the lab is right there beside me. She loves her raw veg - cauliflower leaves are a special favourite, but she’ll accept & devour absolutely any raw veg I hand her. (Pic of Lola when it’s NOT meal prep time!)
A white labrador dog looking directly at the camera. She lies on a soft green throw, on a dark teal coloured sofa, and her head is resting on a blue cushion.
May 29, 2025 at 10:32 AM