Spotted doves
Spotted Doves, Streptopelia chinensis, high in our paperbark tree I have been trying for about a year to note all the species of birds in our garden and I am still adding new ones to my list. I saw...
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Dove orchids promising rain to come We noticed that our dove orchids were in bud yesterday and this morning they were all in flower. I went out to take a photo for the blog and couldn’t work out why I...
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I have written several times about dove orchids and their fabled ability to predict rain, trying to test whether the fable is true or false. I followed up this post in January 2015 with comments...
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My garden smells wonderful this morning – every single clump of dove orchids is in full bloom. Read about them at Dove Orchids and the verdict, Unreliable Orchids, if you don’t know them. Now … is it...
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Local lore has it that the our common Dove Orchids flower ten days before rain. It is approximately correct on all points. Just so we know what we’re talking about, here is the flower: The flowers are...
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