Whats in your backyard?

08-03-2008

@Patrick: chinese muntjac in London? What the???

Many of the same animals that Rookeyper mentioned down in Indiana are found up here in southwestern Canada...with raccoons being a normal sighting at night. Many folks in North Vancouver (where there are lots of mountains and woodlands) find black bears foraging for leftovers in their backyards.

08-03-2008

I'm glad I don't have to worry about bears in my backyard.

08-03-2008

And we have zebra finches upon zebra finches in the peppercorns around a farms backyard but you said not rural so i was doing the town house only.

08-03-2008

oh i forgot raptors-peregrines, nankeen kestrel and white bellied sea eagle. i also forgot black cockatoos and fairy wrens, as well as eurasian coots

09-03-2008

English gardens are so boring.

09-03-2008

I have, Sulphurs, Noisy Minors, Rainbow lorikeets, Galahs, Bush Rats*yes native rats, Galahs, Purple Crowned Lorikeets, Musk Lorikeet and new holland honeyeaters, not much but its a srat, occasionally ther are Nankeen Kestrals, i live 100m from a main road and 20mins from the cbd.

10-03-2008

@snow leopard. yep chinese muntjac. when i was there staying with my friend who lives in london, i picked up the local magazine to see an article about the introduced muntjac that still lived down by the trainlines in that particular area (hornsey rise). this was right in the heart of the most urban of places.

10-03-2008

Reeve's muntjac are common in many parts of England; also Chinese water deer

15-03-2008

Well being in the middle of a desert I haven't come across many mammals but some of the many birds and reptiles I've had in my yard include:

Brown spotted bowerbirds
Grey crested babblers
Port lincoln Ringnecks
Budgies
Red-tailed Black Cockatoos
Magpie Larks
Pied Butcherbirds
Yellow-throated minors
Common Bronzewings
Gallahs
Zebra Finches
Spinifex and Crested pigeons
Splendid fairy wrens
Willie wagtails
A Brown Falcon
Kits and Wedge-Tailed Eagles (not directly in my backyard but can be seen sometimes soaring over the hill nearby)
Bicycle Lizards
Geckos
Spencers burrowing frogs
Central Bearded Dragon
King Brown snakes
Skinks

I think that's about it, well all the ones I can identify that is.

15-03-2008

Today we found an echidna in the chook shed of our farm and it coudn't get out so we let the chooks out and left it for the day and when we checked later it was gone.

15-03-2008

We had a Black necked stork walking around our dam the other day

15-03-2008

Currently there is a young grey roo in with my sheep. . . they always seem to be able to get in but have a hell of a time getting out. . .

16-03-2008

Here are some photos from our "back yard", both at our house and within a short walking distance down the road.

16-03-2008

I guess this can go in here...

I was watching the football highlights last night and they showed a red fox running onto the pitch before the match! (There was a similar incident with a squirrel a couple of years ago)

16-03-2008

I live in the northern suburbs of Sydney and was thrilled to have an Echidna shuffle through the backyard a few weeks ago.

Not so thrilling was the big Red-bellied Black Snake that hung around my aviaries all the time this past summer, although he was obviously there to "clean up" a few of the resident mice. He and I treated each other with respect, so no real problems.

Apart from that I have the usual northern Sydney residents; Rainbow Lorikeets, King Parrots, Crimson Rosellas, Blue-tongue Lizards, Water Dragons, the occasional Eastern Whip-bird, Brush Turkeys (which come running when I feed my aviary birds, 'cos they like the spilled seed) and loads and loads of possums (Ring-tailed and Brush-taileds.)