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RE: Strange Wildlife

Posted 433 days ago

Sounds lovely, you are lucky to have that much wildlife with dogs. Mine tend to keep a bit of it away. Though we have a flock of coolola birds or grey crested babblers. They have the most interesting antics and calls which almost sounds like speech and answer my poor imitation of their calls. I once had an aggressive skink about 4 inches long who attacked my big toe apparently in an effort to scare me away. Also frill neck lizards that chase the ride-on. Life doesn't get much better than this does it?

RE: Strange Wildlife

Posted 428 days ago

Have many Brush Turkeys...'Bush' Turkeys - they being,umm politically stanced...and supposedly vegetarians ? They have taken over all of the other boirdies, as in all seed out for King Parrots and Rainbow Lorrikeets, and all of other vittles for Magpies and Currawongs, Green Cat birds, Butcher birds, and etc. Not to mention, stacking up piles of leaves everywhere in garden and on roof (ok, I know I need to get leaves orf roof re fire matters...!) Occasionally, some have the effrontery to walk into house ! With two dawgs here, is sometimes hilarious...tho much panic ensues. Sigh...wot a to do!

RE: Strange Wildlife

Posted 428 days ago

RE: Strange Wildlife

Posted 426 days ago

Yes have all the above too, the brush turkeys creating a real mess in the garden at the moment spreading the mulch far and wide. Now if I could just possibly 'train' them to do the same with the weeding ..

Possums are proving a bit of a headache at the moment stealing fruit but problem easily solved as I'm about to cover the shrubs/plants over.

About the only real complaint I have is a mopoke owl who has absolutely no respect for people who like to sleep at night. He/She disappeared for the past few years but alas, it has returned !

RE: Strange Wildlife

Posted 414 days ago

I have three dogs and three cats that keep a lot of the wildlife at bay. The crows however are not fazed by the dogs, and are quite happy to raid the fresh meat we sometimes put out for the dogs. The crows are also very interested in whatever we put out in the chook mulch.
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Even the hard, dull, dry ground harbours life - which is brought to the surface with the fresh touch of drenching rain (or the humble watering can).

RE: Strange Wildlife

Posted 365 days ago

i love wildlife

at my property we have Wombats Brown and baby albino, living under my house, possums, rabbits (pains eat my vegies), foxes, blue tongue lizards, jacky lizards,echidnas, kings parrots, rosellas, and over at least 50 other types of birds oh and cockatoos (pains in the Butt)
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its great watching vegies grow from scratch especially when you planted them yourself and if they survive the rabbits

RE: Strange Wildlife

Posted 365 days ago

From time to time we see black cockatoos up in the trees behind us. They love the seed pods of the casaurinas.

We've also had those beautiful and colourful rainbow bee-eaters fly about near the house occasionally.
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Even the hard, dull, dry ground harbours life - which is brought to the surface with the fresh touch of drenching rain (or the humble watering can).

RE: Strange Wildlife

Posted 364 days ago

i have a funny story about some wildlife here. A wallaby was eating one of my grevilleas. I said to my husband shall we stop it from eating or just plant more grevilleas. (we decided to plant more) when a cockatoo came out of no where and attacked the wallaby. The wallaby moved off about 6-10 metres and a staring competition occured between the cockatoo and the wallaby. The cockatoo had enough and started to attack the wallaby again. This time the wallaby hopped quite some distance and the cockatoo chased it for about 50 metres.
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Life's too much fun to be taken seriously

RE: Strange Wildlife

Posted 351 days ago

we got a resident bush turkey this year
he has nested in the back neighbour's yard and he has cleaned all our garden shed roof's looking for nesting material's
he has 2 nests including the one at the back he had one behind the neighbour across the roads back neighbour's yard is this normal
we all look for him each day the neighbour over the road gives him a little bit ham and bread and he eats both and we have been rewarded by getting to see one of the chicks
the only thing i didnt like was when he went into my pool area and scratched the garden into the pool but he has every right to be here so we just put something up to stop the dirt in the pool
we also have possum's and frogs and a nice variety of birds who like to take dip's in the pool much to the dogs disgust

RE: Strange Wildlife

Posted 263 days ago

Sounds a bit like my place. I have a few "mates" that come to visit. Charlie, a huge male butcher bird, sits at the backdoor and sings until I take him some food to eat out of my hand! Last year we had a family of Maggies, Bob, Rosie and thier baby, who as soon as she could leave the nst, they brought her over to our house and let us hand feed her straight away. Not to mention all the reptile(no snakes yet though) action going on. Great fun, and the kids get so much out of it.

RE: Strange Wildlife

Posted 263 days ago

It's amazing that even though we live on acerage just a few minutes away from suburbia, the amount of wildlife that shares our garden. We get koalas,possums,the big blue tongues and frillies, ducks, cockatoos and galahs, even King Parrotts and rosellas, just to name a few! My 8 month old daughter loves watching all the birdlife in our front yard. I too, love watching them and it is interesting to see who is King pin! The yellow crested cockatoos seem to be the dominant ones, followed by the major mitchells and the galahs, the poor old pidgeons and doves seem to be bottom of the ranks! I always supply fresh water in the bird bath and the occassional feed, however our trees and plants seem to attract them anyway. The maggies and ducks will tap at the windows on our front porch if they are really hungry when they can't find anything else!
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RE: Strange Wildlife

Posted 137 days ago

I have a ring tailed mountain possum that had to be relocated due to getting lost on a community bus and she doesn't seem to want to leave. every time i release her she finds her way back to her shelter.. an outside cupboard that i had as a temporary house till she was able to go out by herself but she seems to come back to it so i leave food out for her and she seems content to stay ..but she is free to leave at any time...

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RE: Strange Wildlife

Posted 136 days ago

I had an echidna walk in my front door, circuit the lounge, put it's head in hubbys boots, (must have knocked the poor thing out) it stayed there for an hour, then walked back out the door.
Then in the same house we've had crabs walk in the back door, dont know where they came from - 80ks to the beach.

A snake curled up in the shower curtain. (that was quite a sight, I had already undressed, pulled the curtain down and a 1m python landed on my chest. I ran back into the kitchen to safety - alas the bathroom was in the back yard, I dearly hope the neighbours were not outside!!)

We also had horses walk through the carport to eat the grass in the back yard, a cow in the front yard and frogs poking their heads thru the drain in the shower.

We only lived in that house for 6months.
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RE: Strange Wildlife

Posted 136 days ago

You just made me miss my old home in the Blue Mountains!!!!!!
I used to get kangaroos and wallabies lounging around in my yard, pythons sunning near the rocks, lyrebirds (spring dancing displays were stunning) all kinds of native birds and lorikeets including black cockatoos, in the evening we would watch the sugar gliders and possums jumping around while a family of frogmouth owls would sit in a tree.
I never fed any of these animals, they just existed there naturally and it made every day and night amazing....all this with dogs as well!
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