What wildlife do you have in your yard?

[hihosland]

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[Robbo]

Anyone live around Nerang?

 

LOOKOUT!!!

 

http://www.news.com.au/national/mysterious-monster-snake-photographed-at-nerang-national-park/news-story/ff4a7673a3b23ca101276fdcca03a134

 

 

[hihosland]

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Not exactly in the backyard but within 300mt thereof

 

[Marty_d]

[ATTACH=full]41815[/ATTACH]Not exactly in the backyard but within 300mt thereof

You'd think they'd be extinct by now. I can just imagine all the boy echidnas preparing to get a leg over, then looking at all the spines in the way and going "ah f*ck it, I can't be bothered..."

 

 

[jetjr]

Got an echidna lives in our yard too, sends dogs apoplectic. Know hes around because they come back bleeding from nose.

 

Pretty confident critter, will wander around whole yard. Wont see him for months then turns up again.

 

"Eric" does cause similar damage to a large group of feral pigs rooting around in ground for food once he finds a good spot.

 

 

[facthunter]

They don't name similar ones Armoured dillos for nothing. There's a lot around her (Echidna's) They don't have a big chance crossing the road. I stop and direct traffic when I can. (Same with Koala's) Dogs get them. There used to be lot's here when I arrived over 40 years ago. Nev

 

 

[spacesailor]

I once bought a Farm very cheaply.

 

then came the cost of the livestock!

 

couldn't believe the cost of 100 worms, LoL

 

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[pmccarthy]

Yesterday we had about 50 rabbits in the house paddock. Today I hope there are none. I shoved Phostox down about ten burrows with wet newspaper and sealed the entrances. Its very satisfying to look out the window and see none of the little b-----s.

 

 

[facthunter]

Nothing much will be achieved unless everyone does much the same. They tell me they aren't that nourishing although many lived on them during the depression. Nev

 

 

[Bruce]

Rabbits were brought into Australia by a rich man called Austin, there is a hospital named after him in Melbourne.

 

 

[facthunter]

And Mrs MacQuarie brought in a lovely little potplant called Lantana, which is all over NSW. We have blackberries to drive us to distraction, and paspalum has introduced itself to the southern states. The frost used to kill it off here, but no more. Nev

 

 

[Bruce]

I thought the cane toads were going to devastate the Darwin area but they are hardly noticed. But Caltrop is a nasty thing for small tyres and there is plenty of that around Gawler. There it was waiting in Africa for rubber tyres and the global economy.

 

 

[facthunter]

Cane toads ARE devastating many species near Darwin. (Anything that eats them) as they do everywhere. Their effect on U/L's appears minimal at this stage. Nev

 

 

[storchy neil]

for crist sake nev reading that picture went in me head of cane toad chomping wing with a bloody egle chomping it neil

 

 

[spacesailor]

I will skin them & sell them to the French, as monster size frog-legs,

 

After all the poison is only skin deep.

 

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[Bruce]

I reckon rabbits must be real healthy... low fat and organic, well for sure they have never been given antibiotics.In New Zealand, they introduced them deliberately to feed poor people, even when they knew the damage they would do.

 

 

[storchy neil]

egle it was little eagle neil

 

 

[spacesailor]

I was told many times in NZ that " Possum is good for you" , but it stinks to much to put on the dinner table.

 

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[hihosland]

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[Marty_d]

I was told many times in NZ that " Possum is good for you" , but it stinks to much to put on the dinner table.spacesailor

Check out the NZ movie "Hunt for the Wilderpeople". It's a good laugh.

 

 

[facthunter]

They have a Wild Food Festival at Hokitika annually. Be there. Nev

 

 

[spacesailor]

The English used to eat hedghog a long time ago. Still have a recipe somewere.

 

Never ever thought to cover the poor thing in clay mud then throw onto a fire.

 

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[Marty_d]

Snapped this morning - couple of endangered Wedge Tailed Eagles (about 130 pairs left in Tassie apparently!)

 

Only saw them because the crows were loudly protesting their presence and dive-bombing them. (Eagles ignored them).

 

They're still sitting there as of a couple of minutes ago - hope they stick around.

 

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[storchy neil]

bloody amazing tell the cat don't go outside witch ones harry witch ones Hillary neil

 

 

[Marty_d]

bloody amazing tell the cat don't go outside neil

No cats but one of our dogs is a miniature Foxie, he'd make a nice little meal for those two.

 

I've seen one of them standing in our paddock staring down a goose - think it was deciding whether to eat it or not. Quite funny, they were almost beak to beak.