HANDMADE ARTCARD COLLECTION
By Australian Artist Gerhard Hillmann.
Featuring photographic artworks on high quality photographic paper and mounted on 280gsm textured card. Blank on the inside with a small amount of text on back relating to the image. individually made and packaged with a recycled paper envelope (peel-n-seal).
Card size: aprox 16cm x 11cm (C6)
Image size: 15cm x 10cm
These beautiful cards are a visual diary of the artists life as he explores and discovers interesting plants, animals and fungi in the natural world. A celebration of life, nature and humanitys relationship with it. Small affordable artworks designed to be shared with friends and family around the world. As technology continues to evolve it is important to keep the personal human touch and connections alive.
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nf522. Paradise Kingfisher
(Blank on the inside).
Paradise Kingfisher (Tanysiptera sylvia)
Photographed from our friends verandah (J&J) in the rainforest of Kuranda, North Qld. The iconic Buff-breasted Paradise Kingfisher, nests in active termite mounds in the wet tropics of Northern Australia during the wet season after flying down from New Guinea. They usually arrive between October & November each year. After pairing up & digging / building their nests they lay their eggs in December. Incubation time is 26-28 days, with a month of fledgling time & another month before they can feed themselves.
You can often hear the parents communicate with one another with a distinctive trill sound as they become more visible & active during the feeding period. They can be seen perched still & silent on overhanging branches as captured here before swooping down to catch small prey to feed their young. Katydids, beetles, grubs & other small invertebrates make up their diet, which are often abundant during this time of year in the rainforest.
A flash of vivid colour and a white tail feather is often all you see as they move silently through the forest canopy, often pausing briefly before entering the nest to make sure it is safe. By the end of March, beginning of April they fly back home.