My family are a buch of wildlife magnets
I'm sitting on the back verandah as I write this, watching a young male brushtail possum in one of our feeders and it got me thinking. As you probably know, we're right into wildlife here.
Many years ago, my brother Laurie and I were on holidays in the UK, visiting family, and a few people mentioned the fact that the main thing that bothers them with visiting Oz was the poisonous wildlife. Naturally, I reassured them that it's really unusual to see poisonous snakes and spiders, they're just not as common as the media make it out.
Anyway, a year after that particular trip back home, my cousin Mandy was over here for a visit and the day she arrived we found a redback spider on the doorstep. It wasn't even hidden, it was right where it could have bitten anyone. Call me a liar.
Fast forward to 25th September 2004. We had a few family members over from the UK, My aunty Cis, my cousin's wife Sue (Cis's daughter-in-law) , and my godmother Betty and her husband Blondie. The big occasion was Donna's and my wedding (anniversary coming up, remind me in case I forget). We had everyone visiting a couple of days before the wedding for a BBQ and someone noticed a koala sitting in a tree a couple of doors up from our place. We've never seen that before or since. We often hear them during the mating season, they have a deeper call than the possums, but we rarely see them.
I'm starting to think we need to get more Porters and Goodsons over here to encourage the wildlife.
Oh, and the old Aussie cliche about kangaroos hopping down the main road in Oz, Laurie has pictures of roos in his new backyard.
Come on over and bring your camera.
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We've had several OS guests over the last few years who had to be convinced before they came that they wouldn't get bitten, eaten or mauled. We took one family of Brits to our Nature Reserve and saw nothing in 2 hours and then came around a corner and was confronted by a mob of wallabies. Thereupon commenced a monumental ga-ga session!
Any photos of wildlife in civilisation Steve? Other than your 'pets'. - Dave
I've got a few Dave, but I tend to try and make them look as natural as possible, so you wouldn't know they were surrounded by buildings, or traffic.
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