Kalamunda National Park

Kalamunda National Park with the recent rains is now turning green again after our hot dry Western Australian summer. The park is only 200 metres from our house and a place we often go to for a birdwatch, bushwalk or just to relax .

The mornings have been wonderfully cool and misty lately. Today we went for a four hour bushwalk with some birding along the way. It was nice to see a number of pairs of Red-tailed Black Cockatoos flying along the ridge in the park, including two big Wedge-tailed Eagles circling over Helena Valley.

Helena Valley has always been one of my favourite places and I remember many a sunny day when I was a kid, spent birding and exploring all the nooks and crannies for animals there.

Misty morning.

Red-tailed Black Cockatoo female.

Is this a leaf caught in a spider's web? No, it's a special species of spider, the Leaf-curling Spider that hauls up a leaf, curls it and then lives in it. A good, safe and natural-looking home!

For more info about this interesting spider see Leaf-curling Spider