I live on the outskirts of an Australian city, a couple of hundred metres away from farmland and national park. Opposite me we overlook a large public open space/park.
We have a resident family of magpies. There’s a few cockatoos in the large gum tree next door. There are some kookaburras living in the park who sometimes visit the trees out the front of our place. The odd eagle circling high above. Too many mynas these days. Lots of rosellas and grass parrots. A smattering of finches.
There are tons of kangaroos around. They come into the park to feed at night. During the day they retreat into the national park and we see them when out walking the dog. I’ve run across echidnas and red belly black snakes in the national park, but not technically seen from my window, although we were maybe 15 minutes walk from my front door.
We get the occasional blue tongue lizard visiting our backyard. I found a eastern brown snake skin in the yard once too, but didn’t see its owner. One of my neighbours reported one in his backyard last spring, and my kids have spotted one in the park on the way home from school once, so we know they’re around. There are rabbits around here somewhere and we regularly see them on the nature strip out front at night.
We have the usual assortment of crawlies around. Ants. Spiders. Geckos. Midges. Flies.
There are a couple of horse ajistment places nearby and a pony club. It’s not uncommon to see horses being exercised through the park. Two of our neighbours own horses and ride them home occasionally.
It’s so weird to me that you just see kangaroos walking around. Like, that’s a zoo animal. But then I feel the same way about deer and I see them several times a week.
I live on the outskirts of an Australian city, a couple of hundred metres away from farmland and national park. Opposite me we overlook a large public open space/park.
We have a resident family of magpies. There’s a few cockatoos in the large gum tree next door. There are some kookaburras living in the park who sometimes visit the trees out the front of our place. The odd eagle circling high above. Too many mynas these days. Lots of rosellas and grass parrots. A smattering of finches.
There are tons of kangaroos around. They come into the park to feed at night. During the day they retreat into the national park and we see them when out walking the dog. I’ve run across echidnas and red belly black snakes in the national park, but not technically seen from my window, although we were maybe 15 minutes walk from my front door.
We get the occasional blue tongue lizard visiting our backyard. I found a eastern brown snake skin in the yard once too, but didn’t see its owner. One of my neighbours reported one in his backyard last spring, and my kids have spotted one in the park on the way home from school once, so we know they’re around. There are rabbits around here somewhere and we regularly see them on the nature strip out front at night.
We have the usual assortment of crawlies around. Ants. Spiders. Geckos. Midges. Flies.
There are a couple of horse ajistment places nearby and a pony club. It’s not uncommon to see horses being exercised through the park. Two of our neighbours own horses and ride them home occasionally.
It’s so weird to me that you just see kangaroos walking around. Like, that’s a zoo animal. But then I feel the same way about deer and I see them several times a week.