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Finally a good photo

Finally we got a good photograph of a pademelon. They otherwise only end up as grey streaks on the camera or we have nothing with us on the way to the creekside to take their picture with. One of them is getting braver and staying to check us out until a couple of meters then it jumps into the underbrush and watches us from there.

Rednecked Pademelon, thylogale thetis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rödnackad Pademelon, eller nå´t.  Pademelonerna är så skygga men en börjar vänja sig vid oss och äntligen fick vi ett bra foto av en. De brukar annars bara bli en blurrig grå skugga på cameran.

It must def be spring

Så nu är det vår. Först kom Welcome svalan och flög in i huset och runt omkring. Den blir trött rätt så fort så vi fångade den snart och släppte ut. Men igår kom Willy Wagtail och flög in. Den brukar inte flyga fel. Och den är en virtuos flygare som gör krumbukter i luften och var mycket svårare att fånga in. Vi tillverkade en jättestor håv till slut, av nät och vajrar som vi fäste på ett kvastskaft. Och ut kom den.

Nu är det bara fladdermössen som ska komma in sen är sommaren i sikte.

Det är ungarna vi talar om förstås!

Vi rensade lite i citruslunden och tog bort några Pittosporum och några Kumquatträd så att grapefruktträden ska få mer luft och sol. De ena av grannarna gillade verkligen kumquatfrukterna, man kan ju äta bara skalen och de är SÖTA! Så jag hade lovat några grenar som de kan få att rota sig. Vi tog några av träden som de sen kan ta smågrenar av och få att rota sig med hjälp at rotningsmedel, som de redan har, och körde iväg med dem. Lite snack på deras veranda och plötsligt sitter vi där med 12 ägg från deras hönor. “Vill ni ha en tupp?” Fast det ville vi inte just då. Tänkte inte på tuppen som mat just då utan som blivande pappa. Men vi ska inte ha några djur förrän nästa höst då vi förhoppningsvis har byggt lite hus mm åt dem.

Nu är det Guavaträden som måste räddas. Vad är det som äter löven. Det ena har fått alla nya löv avätna. Vi kan inte se några insekter eller larver och grenarna längst ut är för svaga för att Räven ska lyckas ta sig ut dit. Nätade det och nu väntar vi på vad som ska hända.

Annars är det torka igen. Har varit torrt ända sen i somras. Kom några eländiga regn i Juli men inget att hänga i gran. Vi vattnar och bäcken sjunker igen. Nya eldar i horisonten också men den närmaste är slocknad som skönt är.

Häromdagen har vi varit ihop (inte bott ihop, förlovade eller gifta) i 49 år. Ska det bli 50 månne?!

So now it’s spring. First came the welcome swallow and flew into the house and around. It gets tired right soon so we caught it soon and released. But yesterday, Willy Wagtail came in and flew in. It usually does not come inside. And it’s a virtuoso aviator who makes bumpers in the air and was much harder to catch. We finally made a huge catcher of netting and wire that we attached to a broom shaft. And it came out.

Now it’s only bats that will come in late, everything’s done!

These are the babies we speak of of course!

We cleared a little in the citrus grove and removed some pittosporum and some kumquat trees so that the grapefruit trees would have more air and sun. One of the neighbours really enjoyed the kumquats, you can only eat the peel and they are SWEET! So I promised some branches that they could get rooted. We took some of the trees that they can use. They already have rooting gel, and drove over to them. A little chat on their porch and suddenly we sit there with 12 eggs from their chooks. “Do you want a rooster?” Though we did not want one right then. Did not think of it as food just then but as a dad-to-be. But we will not have any animals until next autumn when we hopefully have built some houses for them.

Now it’s the Guava trees that have to be saved. What is it that eats the leaves? One has got all the new leaves eaten. We can not see any insects or larvae and the branches at the outermost are too weak for the possum to succeed in getting out on them. Netted it and now we are waiting for what’s going to happen.

Otherwise it’s drought again. Has been dry since last summer. Bring some miserable rain in July but nothing near enough. We water and the water brook drops again. New fires on the horizon also but the closest is extinguished as nice is.

The other day we have been together (not lived together, engaged or married) for 49 years. Will it be 50 months ?!

Our mob

This is out mob of about 10 -11 including joeys at all ages.

Here is the mother who is very protective of her joey
Here is the mother who is very protective of her joey
Here is one
Here is one
Here are three, one on each side and on in the middle. Two of these guys always hang together.
Here are three, one on each side and on in the middle. Two of these guys always hang together.
Here is a little loner
Here is a little loner
Two way down on the patch to the creek
Two way down on the patch to the creek
This is another mother. Her baby is the one whom I saw outside the pouch.
This is another mother. Her baby is the one whom I saw outside the pouch.
There is one up among the trees by the ute.
There is one up among the trees by the ute.

Bats

We have some fruit bats around the house now and then.

This one came into the house once and it made it´s rounds into the shed part looking for the big moths but never finding them. We think they ate all the grapes.

Bats, other animals and insects come around when there is something good for them or just looking for something and then either go away or die off (in the case of the flies).

 

A couple of mornings we were awakened by an odd scratching sound at the bed headboards. We could not figure out where it really came from. Not mice! Then we located it to the window frame. Mick went outside in the dark and notice that the window frame was a bit loose. Inside there were 4 bats squishing together. Well we made them homeless. Too bad. Pity we did not get a pic of that. If they had kept quiet we would never have known.

 

They ate all the grapes and tried out some of the Yellow Guavas and since we have not seen them.

Fruit bat, ate all the grapes