Seeing a wild opossum would be a huge experience for me!
Well my backyard is fairly desolate in wildlife given I'm stuck deep in the 'burbs of a big city, I have to travel outside it to see most cool animals lol. Only native mammals I usually get in my backyard are grey-headed flying-foxes and microbats, and occasionally a brushtail possum (a koala has also made its way onto my street before - they've spread into the city along the river), with house mice and marauding foxes making up the rest of the mammal fauna. We do get a lot of birds that are probably exciting to people outside Australia though, especially parrots - got several species of cockatoo, lorikeet and rosella that hang around my yard.
Tbf, my "backyard" is roughly 100,000 acres plus
remote living is certainly something. Today I chased a sand monitor that is bigger than my two year old away from the chicken coops (safely, and slowly)That is awesome! Kookaburras definitely needed IF we ever get aviaries!
I have a small amount of terror for that. On the plus side, lovely macro bee photos incoming soon!Wow, that's cool. My dad studied beekeeping many years ago, but nowadays he (and I) are your friendly neighborhood window washersI don't know if this should go here or in pets but I have a hive of European honey bees moving into an old hive that I cleaned up recently. Now I have to do a crash course on beekeeping
Turns out I did visit Innes again in spring, I just got back from another 3 night trip an hour ago and this time it was a roaring success for brown snakes! I managed to find four different Peninsula brown snakes over the course of my stay, mainly outside the national park and in surrounding parts of the Yorke Peninsula instead. I had a particularly close encounter with one large individual which stayed still and allowed me to get some nice shots (pictured below), before I stamped my feet to get it to move off the road and not become roadkill. This is the second species of brown snake I've seen in the wild now, and if things go to plan I may also get a chance to see western or strap-snouted browns later this year.
That Emu shot is incredible!Turns out I did visit Innes again in spring, I just got back from another 3 night trip an hour ago and this time it was a roaring success for brown snakes! I managed to find four different Peninsula brown snakes over the course of my stay, mainly outside the national park and in surrounding parts of the Yorke Peninsula instead. I had a particularly close encounter with one large individual which stayed still and allowed me to get some nice shots (pictured below), before I stamped my feet to get it to move off the road and not become roadkill. This is the second species of brown snake I've seen in the wild now, and if things go to plan I may also get a chance to see western or strap-snouted browns later this year.
Snakefest aside, the next most exciting animal encounter I had was with another malleefowl, once again in a place I completely wasn't expecting it (in an open area not too far from the visitor centre). I got a much longer and closer view this time, leading to significantly nicer pictures!
And here's just some other pictures I took while away - a sleepy lizard/shingleback (moved approximately 2,356,824 of these guys off the road over the course of this weekend), an emu, a mob of reintroduced tammar wallabies and a tawny-crowned honeyeater.
The herping season has started here now so hopefully I'll have some more exciting reptile encounters over the coming months!
Wow those are some incredible pictures.Turns out I did visit Innes again in spring, I just got back from another 3 night trip an hour ago and this time it was a roaring success for brown snakes! I managed to find four different Peninsula brown snakes over the course of my stay, mainly outside the national park and in surrounding parts of the Yorke Peninsula instead. I had a particularly close encounter with one large individual which stayed still and allowed me to get some nice shots (pictured below), before I stamped my feet to get it to move off the road and not become roadkill. This is the second species of brown snake I've seen in the wild now, and if things go to plan I may also get a chance to see western or strap-snouted browns later this year.
Snakefest aside, the next most exciting animal encounter I had was with another malleefowl, once again in a place I completely wasn't expecting it (in an open area not too far from the visitor centre). I got a much longer and closer view this time, leading to significantly nicer pictures!
And here's just some other pictures I took while away - a sleepy lizard/shingleback (moved approximately 2,356,824 of these guys off the road over the course of this weekend), an emu, a mob of reintroduced tammar wallabies and a tawny-crowned honeyeater.
The herping season has started here now so hopefully I'll have some more exciting reptile encounters over the coming months!
Definitely a great time of year for it, and there's lots of cool snakes up your way! Some nice weather and a bit of road cruising would have good results I reckon.
Be careful, that’s a drop bear.
Wow. You mentioned that you're from Mexico, right? What area of Mexico is that? If it's Yucatán, Tamaulipas, and/or Guanajuato state, then I have a chance to see them. If it's anywhere else, then I don't
Yucatan!!!
Ha haaa, I can see them. Won't be until we take a cruise, though; we've never driven that far before. Longest driving trip was 20 hours, and 10 were to get outta Texas
