olbod
8th September 2013, 11:41 AM
About 200 mtrs away from me house is a huge natural lake. Must cover about 30 hectares, well 50 acres in my speak anyway. Swarming with wildlife all year round.
Look out the kitchen window sometimes and there are 15 or so large B/W cranes pecking about. Betty used to reckon they was Harpies.
There are 3 pairs of beautiful Burdekin Ducks often come to my back door and I break up a few slices of multi grain bread for them. Love it when they bring the new babes trotting along behind, usually about 1 hand high.
Anyway this morning I went to the back door and there were about 100 Whistler Ducks there. All started to move forward whistling and screaming and saying G'day bod.
I bowed and said good morning and then beat a hasty retreat.
Jeez, I would need a well stocked bakery to feed all those buggers.
The neighbours complain about the noise when they fly overhead at night,
I cant understand that. Its my kind of music.
And yeh, there are a family of noisy crows living in a tree behind me shed. They have 3 youngn's a few months old. There are a few orange trees in the paddock and the the ground is littered with chewed up fruit. I would rather they didn't drop them in my backyard tho. I can hear them now, talking to each other as I sit here doing my one finger trick on the computer.
Cheers.
PS: Noticed yesterday over on the edge of the lake that a Sea Eagle is once again sitting on the nest, Worth keeping an eye on. They have been using it for about ten years.
Look out the kitchen window sometimes and there are 15 or so large B/W cranes pecking about. Betty used to reckon they was Harpies.
There are 3 pairs of beautiful Burdekin Ducks often come to my back door and I break up a few slices of multi grain bread for them. Love it when they bring the new babes trotting along behind, usually about 1 hand high.
Anyway this morning I went to the back door and there were about 100 Whistler Ducks there. All started to move forward whistling and screaming and saying G'day bod.
I bowed and said good morning and then beat a hasty retreat.
Jeez, I would need a well stocked bakery to feed all those buggers.
The neighbours complain about the noise when they fly overhead at night,
I cant understand that. Its my kind of music.
And yeh, there are a family of noisy crows living in a tree behind me shed. They have 3 youngn's a few months old. There are a few orange trees in the paddock and the the ground is littered with chewed up fruit. I would rather they didn't drop them in my backyard tho. I can hear them now, talking to each other as I sit here doing my one finger trick on the computer.
Cheers.
PS: Noticed yesterday over on the edge of the lake that a Sea Eagle is once again sitting on the nest, Worth keeping an eye on. They have been using it for about ten years.