Wild life roll call.

[xelasnave]

I was today asked in another thread about my wild life these days and I thought a thread where members could tell about wild life would be interesting.

I know Peter has an interesting neighbour and he is in the city.

I have some wallabies who are always about but recently two magpie are waiting for me at the door on my hand rail for a handout at about 6-30 am....I know I should not feed them but I do and they seem to spend all day walking around the block finding their normal food and treat the block as home.. They spend a lot of time in the tree that hangs over the van and I think they sleep there.

One eats out of my hand.

AND I may be crazy but I think they sit outside and like to listen to me playing my guitar but I have not done tests to confirm such.

I saw what I thought were two dingoes days ago running across the block, I expect after a wallaby...so tonight I put out some meaty bones from a lamb shoulder that I bbq ed yesterday in front of one of my trail cameras to see if they call by...

My boat sunk but fortunately on the jetty but a week ago I went to pump it out,a regular chore these days, and found that I have about fifty small fish in the bilge water and a tiny eel about 60 mm long...I plan to get them out but my feet got too crook to walk down to the dam..it is only a slight slope but for me may as well be Everest.

So that's my lot to start...so what critters do you have at your place?.

Alex

[RB]

:thumbsup:

[sharpiel]

Heya Alex. Nice work. Good to see you enjoying yourself.

Saw a mother and juvenile Lyrebird in my yard over Christmas. Have seen the parental pair before but have never seen a baby Lyrebird.

Had a large brown Kite landed on one of my aviaries on Saturday. Stayed there for half an hour. Beautiful.

[JA]

The best I can do is a possum moving between the nature-strip trees using the power lines as his highway.

Best
JA

[RB]

Drop bears....
But I ain't scared of them....

:lol:

[mura_gadi]

Best I've had was a very large goanna go through the yard. Saw it going down the side of the house due to some kids starring and carrying on out the front.

Ran out the back to grab the dogs, I'm 6foot, two baying dogs and it stuck its head through the fence shaped us up and said np. Walked right on past us and continued to return to the bush a neighbour or two beyond.

Serious land animal when they get large and your up close.

[sharpiel]

Funny enough we get lots of goannas and brush turkeys here. The turkeys build large mounds to incubate eggs. The goannas raid them for food. The male turkeys guard the nests so we get to see Turkey -v- goanna showdowns a bit. The goannas use their tails like whips to try strike the turkeys and the turkeys tray to rake leaves and dirt over the goanas. Normally there is no actual contact between them. They go to and fro for a bit till the goana decides dirt in the eyes isn't worth staying around.

[pmrid]

I sold my farm three years ago. While living there, we had a wonderful parade of birds and beasts. Our final count of bird varieties was 36 and it included some very unusual ones such as the channel-billed cuckoo, king parrots, tawny frogmouths and more. Our animals and reptiles were no less varied from the koalas, dingoes, wallabies and kangaroos and the reptiles included huge lace monitors and an enormous variety of snakes. Our sale was forced by my wife’s health but I miss it greatly - particularly my dark skies.

[glend]

I have regular visits from large Eastern Grey Kangaroos, who graze on the native Bush beyond my back gate. They are likely members of the mob that makes Morisset Psych Hospital home. For large majestic animals, they make virtually no noise.
I have had a few generations of Blue Tongue lizards around my back shed, and a large Brown snake sunbathing on my driveway occasionally.
The area is full of Kookraburras, some of whom sit on my Hills Hoist to survey the Bush beyond the gate. I don't want to feed them, and they seem to do very well without my interference.
There is a Possum, or two, which I have seen at night from my observatory. The low growls give It away, and the red light reflection from the eyes. I think I know which hollow in which tree is home.
Of all of these, most disturbing is the odd domestic cats that walk down the middle of my street in the wee hours of the night. Brazen, with no predators to worry about. These I would happily support culling.

[leon]

Alex nice post I expect members have all sorts of critters on their patch.

For Alice and I we have two resident Koalas and a Mother black Wallaby and youngster.
Plenty of Bird life and Some Black Cockies as well, so all in all quite a house full, but it is nice to see them all getting on with each other

We see them often and they are very friendly, and of coarse two Cats.

Leon

[sharpiel]

I agree Glen. Domestic cats and dogs escaped from control and living wild, destroy so much wildlife.

[xelasnave]

I really do not know what I am doing with my trail cameras, I just keep hitting buttons to do anything ...however I thought I had the one set up to video the dingo but it took only pictures..but I have some pictures of either a dingo or a wild dog, like two, but he has picked up the bone and taken it only a couple of metres away out of view and got every bit of meat off...but he left it which is funny.

There are a few frames with nothing in them suggesting the camera was triggered but whatever was out of view by the time it took a picture.

Like most things it will take me a while to deliver the vision I had that prompted me to buy a couple.

Now that I know he is coming by I will tie the next bone down and hopefully have worked out the camera and get some video...but that won't be until I do another lamb leg on the BBQ.

I would like to establish if it is a dingo or wild dog.

AND if I can work out how to download my current photos I will put up the pictures..although not for a while..big day today doing lots of other stuff.

Alex