OT - Our wildlife encounter....

Great when kids can get up close and personal with some of our wildlife. Totally different perspective to books, TV or even zoos etc.

Alby almost got killed by a duck I heard

Callum looks a bit like harry butler

Lyn, they are facinating animals, the echidna, have got down to eye level to have a good look and you know that would be a good look for me too. Yeh, a joke.

Have had koalas in the garden here and at the previous house too, but up a blackwood there. Had a koala inspecting the calf shed a couple of years back, perhaps I should say casing the joint as he was hundreds of metres from any eucalypt.

I don't want to see any large wild life, sharks or bunyips if I go sea kayaking.

yeah, we had quite a few over at the guim, they are grouse critters, heaps of blue tounges and even lots of platapus in the creek.

Only 'local' critters i dont like have those little stripes along their backs (and 2 nasty teeth LOL)

Cute aren't they? No doubt Callum will have lots to say about the encounter. lol

We found a dead one on the road out the front a few months ago. The kids were fascinated with it, but sad that we found it this way. The kids insisted on a proper burial. I've seen lots on the sides of roads over the years; even saw one d!ckhead swerve to hit one.

Then last week, I though our Dobermann had a brown bailed up out the back, but he was jumping around a fair bit after poking his nose at this thing; turned out to be an echidna. I can't imagine a dog doing any damage to one. We interfered in his wanderings a bit as we didn't want to find another one on the road, so on with the welding gloves and we re-located him down the back paddock. Still, they do wander over a large area so it probably won't make any difference, but I know the kids learn valuable lessons in life from these types of encounters.

I know I'm looking forward to catching the feral cat around here which is decimating the local population of Eastern and Crimson Rosellas, King Parrots and anything else that moves(cept the Dobe!). Anyone suggest ways of taming feral cats? I'm thinking along the lines of a 410.

Andrew