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.
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