After the storms of saturday night, and all the rain it's brought out the critters. Opened up the observatory tonight to do some imaging. Boy what a smell! thousands of dead slatters. Swept them out and started imaging.
Then the frog started, gets any wetter I'll need to put floaties under the observatory.
After the storms of saturday night, and all the rain it's brought out the critters. Opened up the observatory tonight to do some imaging. Boy what a smell! thousands of dead slatters. Swept them out and started imaging.
Then the frog started, gets any wetter I'll need to put floaties under the observatory.
What's living around yours?
Cheers,
Justin.
What is a Slatter
Wallabies, Birds, lizards,
Cheers
I regularly get snails and slugs inside my obs. I don't like it one bit.
Around the obs, apart from the horses and land shark (Billy the staffy) my obs is surrounded by frogs and probably the odd copperhead (but they're OK, they're only after the frogs). Oh yeah, and the rabbit population seems to be on the rise but that seems perfectly normal for a National Park (Pocklebonk Walls National Park of course!)
I've got a big mama lizard that resides under the fake grass around my pool. Was cleaning the pool yesterday and it moved under the timber decking. I got a weed and poked it to get its attention, the bloody thing hisses at ya like a pissed off cat and it even tried to attack the grass I was using to play with it. Glad it was under a safe layer of wood!
Hi Justin,
We have hundreds of frogs here. They become a nusance after rain at night.
The croaking noise level is unbeleivably loud. We have to shut the windows and doors, also turn the TV up. But it is healthy ground.
These two tree Frogs were found amongst some bricks I needed. I released the frogs, unharmed. I came close to unknowingly squishing the poor beggars. I like to have them around.
Frogs (conspicuosly NOT eating) slugs, snails, and some wierd-looking bugs.
There's a couple of glue-toungues that pop by and an echidna that is, I reckon, pound for pound, is the strongest creature in the world.
That's a lot of frogs!
The frogs around here usually get into full voice around mid winter to early spring, especially if it's a wet year.
Most of them are in old quarry along the edge of the reisling trail that goes past our home.
As for the slaters, Iv'e never seen so many, think they're breeding in the paddock next door that hasn't been worked up in 6 years.
I grew up in SA. West Hindmarsh.
There were pugholes around us. Open cut clay mines for brick kilning.
These pugholes often had water collect in the deeper parts.
There were thousands of frogs.
We used to collect them. I mentioned earlier how sensitive they are:
If we placed the frogs in old paint tins they would die within an hour.
We needed to use older rusty cans. Frogs did not cope with paint at all. Even if the paint had been dry for years.
All of those pugholes have been filled in and levelled and buit on. I never saw any frogs after that.
Here in Qld we have a great many Cane Toads. On acreage here they do keep the bugs down. I don't know how the frogs compete with the toads. I know they don't get along.
I don't like it one bit.
) my obs is surrounded by frogs and probably the odd copperhead (but they're OK, they're only after the frogs). Oh yeah, and the rabbit population seems to be on the rise but that seems perfectly normal for a National Park (Pocklebonk Walls National Park of course!)
(pun intended.)
