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Old 05-09-07, 14:50
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I took this pic a few years back , during the warmer summer months , we see these monitor lizards or goanna's, regularly , they patrol the fence lines looking for bunny wabbits to eat ...

They usually run up a tree , a defence reaction , when a human approaches . Average length is well over 3 feet .

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Old 05-09-07, 14:59
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The other common nasty we get during summer . I killed these 2 as they were very close to the house ...
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Old 05-09-07, 15:30
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The are almost as bad as these !
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Old 05-09-07, 22:40
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The are almost as bad as these !
Hmmm glad to know that we ain't the only ones with these pests.
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Old 05-09-07, 23:36
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Oh my ... we have those too ... are they originally from the Land of Oz, then?


I really like the lizards ... don't care much for the snakes though
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Old 06-09-07, 00:00
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Old 06-09-07, 00:22
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Old 06-09-07, 00:29
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I bet if the poor thing was still alive you would not be that close
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Old 06-09-07, 00:43
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I bet if the poor thing was still alive you would not be that close
Well, Max and I wanted to stroke her, but she wasn't too pleased with that, so we stroked her with a heavy broom instead. A few times. And then again. And you should see what the ants did to her just overnight! Ant colonies from miles around were flocking in with their little ant-knives and little ant-forks and wee ant-knappies around their scrawy necks... FREE MEAL AT THE HEDGES'!!!!

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Old 06-09-07, 10:49
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LOL you would not like my place Jif as we have colonies of redbacks around the house and are always mindful of how we pick up that pot plant etc when we are outside. Mind you like the snake at Max's they don't live long when discovered.
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Old 06-09-07, 12:11
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Now these are nice .... not nasty . These King parrots turn up each spring ... I snapped this pic a few years ago . They seem to like the buds on this shrub .... Whatever it is ?

A flock of Gang Gang cockatoos usually attack the seed pods of the Cootamundra wattle here .... the pods are demolished in quick time .

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Old 06-09-07, 13:42
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always mindful of how we pick up that pot plant etc

Isn't that illegal?
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Nice photo of the redback, KK!
Did you know that only the Female is harmful if it bights you. Unfortunately it is very easy to get bitten when turning one over to check it's plumbing...
Pssst... Don't tell Jiff... But when he walked through my shed, he walked through a colony of the little buggers...
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Nice photo of the redback, KK!
Did you know that only the Female is harmful if it bights you. Unfortunately it is very easy to get bitten when turning one over to check it's plumbing...
Pssst... Don't tell Jiff... But when he walked through my shed, he walked through a colony of the little buggers...
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Does that mean he should be renamed"Spiderman"...??
I'm sure that will please him to no end..

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Looks like a FURRY calico-sorta-kinda cat with too many legs
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Old 06-09-07, 14:01
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Now these are nice .... not nasty . These King parrots turn up each spring ... I snapped this pic a few years ago . They seem to like the buds on this shrub .... Whatever it is ?

A flock of Gang Gang cockatoos usually attack the seed pods of the Cootamundra wattle here .... the pods are demolished in quick time .

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Nice photo of the redback, KK!
Did you know that only the Female is harmful if it bights you. Unfortunately it is very easy to get bitten when turning one over to check it's plumbing...
Pssst... Don't tell Jiff... But when he walked through my shed, he walked through a colony of the little buggers...
HH
Thanks HH ... Spiderman is really gonna love reading your small postscript

No ... didn't know only the female bite is harmful ... ... but that makes total sense to me. When females bite, they don't usually do it for love, they mean business
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Old 10-07-09, 10:36
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Old 10-07-09, 18:04
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This is pretty accurate in case any of you were considering coming here.
Sjeesh, how can people live there?!? They must have been forced to go over there . . .

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Sjeesh, how can people live there?!? They must have been forced to go over there . . .

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and some like silly me chose to come here

(mind you it was the most sensible thing I ever did!)
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