welcome wildlife

Peasants · **Posted:** Sun May 15, 2011 4:55 pm

Part of our plan, for our 10 acres, is to provide a sanctuary for wildlife. We are pleased that a few varieties have become well established in recent years (we only saw them now and then previously).

earthbound · **Posted:** Sun May 22, 2011 2:34 pm

Looooooooove the wren....

You hardly ever see them up this way but see them all the time down Denmark way, my brother has them trained so they will come in land on your hand and eat from your palm.

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Peasants · **Posted:** Sun May 22, 2011 4:09 pm

Wow, that is a great photo! They are so lovely, but do move around quickly so hard to get a good picture...but that one is fantastic!

Peasants · **Posted:** Tue Jul 12, 2011 11:22 am

A pair of Pacific Black Ducks have called the 'snake lake' their home!

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Faye · **Posted:** Tue Jul 12, 2011 3:54 pm

Beautiful shot :thumb:

Peasants · **Posted:** Wed Nov 02, 2011 12:24 am

This skink fell or dropped into the wheat bin, and made a great photo opportunity before we released it (and replaced the lids on the feed bins!)

bushy · **Posted:** Wed Nov 02, 2011 9:41 am

Great photos..... couldnt have posed the skink better.

What things are you doing to attrack wildlife peasants? :thumb:

Faye · **Posted:** Wed Nov 02, 2011 5:22 pm

Gee that skink must have got a fright, do they even eat wheat?
Here is a bearded dragon if I were to give it a caption it would be along the lines of "I hope you captured my good side"?

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Peasants · **Posted:** Wed Nov 02, 2011 8:51 pm

Faye, great photos! We have had a few dragons lately but my camera is just not up to taking such good close-ups!

Not sure that skinks eat wheat...they do LOVE the fish food though!

Bushy, we do try hard to attract wildlife. We have planted and planted lots of natives, leave a selection of fallen logs, bought logs with holes/cavities in them and probably one of the main things is we don't allow the dogs to roam everywhere. We have designated a few 'sanctuaries', throughout the 10 acres and these are no-go areas for the dogs. Since doing that we have seen a lot more wildlife.

Simo · **Posted:** Wed Nov 23, 2011 9:05 pm

I'm an Arachniphile so spiders are always welcome in my garden, this one is of the orb weaver family, it is the fat cream colourd blob sitting on 5 egg sacks

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And a few days later 7 egg sacks :joy:

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And another orb weaver in the veg patch, a bit hard to see clearly (phone camera)

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Simo · **Posted:** Wed Nov 23, 2011 9:09 pm

Here isthe shingle back sink or bobtail lizard the dog found the other day, I pulled all the roo ticks out of it's ears, fed it a strawberry and sent it on it's way

Peasants · **Posted:** Wed Nov 23, 2011 10:33 pm

Lovely photos!
We have been seeing a lot of bearded dragons, but the camera doesn't take good close ups. Here are a couple though....

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it 'played dead' the whole time, even when trying to move it out of the garden (and away from the three dogs!!).

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Not a clear photo but still amazing!

bushy · **Posted:** Wed Nov 23, 2011 11:43 pm

Great photos.......

gnash · **Posted:** Fri Nov 25, 2011 1:11 pm

Good Pic's simo :wave:

Faye · **Posted:** Sat Nov 26, 2011 12:44 pm

Precious

Love the friendly photos that you guys are getting, smiling bobtail and posing bearded dragons, keep them coming!

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