More Birdlife

 

Yesterday i was cleaning up and painting our new/old kitchen buffet.  It was a rainy, dreary day so i was under cover ion the old  car port.  The birds were going nuts in the weather and really put on a great show.

I had little flocks of Red Browed Firetails dancing about just metres from me, eating the seeding couch grass.  Then i had a rainbow bee eater settle for a while on a fence across the yard, flying up into the air every now and again to catch an insect.  The black shouldered kite was also about again, sitting over near the dairy where i got the pictures of him previously.

A great day for bird watching.

Red browed firetail, a type of finch.

 

 

A little flock of red brows, eating the very small grass seeds that are about at the moment.

Rainbow bee eater, they really do like to eat bees and other flying insects.

 

 

More Birdlife

18 Week Mo Update

 

Here are a few photos of Mo at 18 weeks to compare to his earlier puppy photos.  He is doing pretty well so far, no paralysis ticks or snake bites yet.  He is growing up and becoming better behaved but every now and then he reminds us that he is a puppy by destroying something or digging an enormous hole.

He is in love with the turkeys and likes to make sure they don’t fall out of there brooder, giving them a good lick to keep them inside.

Mo guarding the door step, he likes to wait here for us to come and feed or amuse him.

Mo, what a man.

Mo checking the temperature and turbidity of the dam.

A new cow bone Mo found down in a gully. He nearly got it all the way home then forgot about it and found something else to play with. 

18 Week Mo Update

Puzzling Gully Wildlife

 

We have a lot of wildlife on and around our farm.  We see so many different birds and they even change with the seasons.  We have kangaroos and wallabies, hundreds of bandicoots, rats and mice, brown antechinus, hares, brown snakes, also echidnas and many different types of birds. 

I have not taken that many photos yet but I got a few on the weekend of some of the birdlife and an unfortunate brown antechinus that found our mouse trap.  I have also seen two large brown snakes in the last week which is not brilliant, being the second most venomous snake worldwide.

A list of birds that i have seen so far and can remember are:

Superb fairy wrens – they keep our vegie garden bug free

Red backed fairy wrens, red browed firetails, double bar finches, pheasant coucals, galahs, sulfur crested cockatoos, pale headed rosellas, king parrots, spotted pardalotes, pied currawongs, grey crowned babblers, willie wagtails, magpie larks, magpies, crows, grey butcher birds, brown falcons, wedge tail eagles, black shouldered kites, nankeen kestrels, kookaburras, crested pigeons, peaceful doves, quail, wood ducks, white spoonbill, cormorants, plumed whistling ducks, hoary headed grebes, mallards, herons.  This is just some of them and the ones i know.  We have some honey eaters which i have not identified yet and also maybe some emu wrens too.

Bandicoot in our cage trap.  We have the trap to catch rats and foxes etc but the bandicoots are always in there.  They are everywhere and eat anything.  They are marsupials and i think carnivorous. 

Dead brown antechinus, in our house and caught by a mouse trap.  Looks quite mousey but is large, longer nose and has little sharp carnivore teeth, not big incisors like rodents.

Antechinus teeth

Black shouldered kite

 

 

Male superb fairy wren, beautiful little guy that hangs around with a bunch of little brown and white girls.  These guys are very numerous, always busy and eat a lot of bugs.

Puzzling Gully Wildlife