What native creatures share your home? This Aussie farmer has quite a few native friends that delight her. On our Aussie farm we have a little friend that calls our pergola home. The other year we brought a little frog foam (eggs) home from one of our dams so we could show the grandkids the tadpoles growing. The water had plants growing in it and left with some leaf litter in the bottom of the water so they had a food source. For extra food we would throw in a couple of pet biscuits regularly which the tadpoles would attack. Although we were not quite sure if this was the right food, they seemed to thrive quite happily. There is a dam just down the hill and we think our brood moved on or possibly eaten by a visiting snake (usually non venomous snakes thankfully, but hey they have to eat too). But we have one regular who calls our water feature home. When I am watering the garden (with dam water as the rain water is needed for drinking and showers only) I look at him and he looks at me, and then we carry on with our own thing. Not visible today but there has been a second frog this week, a little shyer as she ? jumps in the water. One has brighter green splotches, so guessing a Mr and a Miss frog. Since a few days ago there is a very young bobtail lizard that is visiting us as well. During summer we make sure there is a water bowl under the tap for our visitors. But we make sure to put a brick in the water so the bobtails do not accidentally drown. We did have a carpet python (called Monty) that claimed our garden as home in summer for a number of years and one year she must have had babies as we found several young snakes around our sheds that were moving further a field into the bush/paddocks on their own. I wasnt really pleased when Monty ate the baby chicken I was raising that was a lone survivor from the bad old fox, but you get that! We always get excited when we see a racehorse goanna around the farm, which is a regular occurrence during summer as well. The bird life is too numerous to mention, but the mudlarks are one of my favourites and the magpies chortle happily around our house. At night there are several types of owls, possums, phascogales, couple of roos and who knows what other little critters about. I have been lucky enough to see a pygmy possum and a dunnart but have not personally seen the phascogales yet. It is a simple delight to share our home with our native creatures. I was over the moon when Mr Aussie Farmer came home and had seen an echidna recently. I have only ever seen one echidna in this area about 40 years ago. The trees and shrubs we have planted to create corridors between our patches of bush for nature must be paying off. So damned pleased :) #realaussiefarms
Posted on: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 11:11:56 +0000
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