{"id":2973,"date":"2015-10-02T21:35:55","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T04:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newearthcommunity.org\/?page_id=2973"},"modified":"2021-11-23T23:58:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T06:58:00","slug":"animals-and-birds-on-our-land","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.newearthcommunity.org\/?page_id=2973","title":{"rendered":"HP 6.11: Animals and Birds on our Land"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"003\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Australian Wood Duck<\/strong><\/p>\n

pays us an occasional visit in groups of two or three ducks. They waddle<\/p>\n

across our land generally amongst the taller grass looking for insects and<\/p>\n

things to eat. They do not normally swim in the water of our ponds as black ducks<\/a> often do.<\/p>\n

See the website: Images for australian wood duck.<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n

\"IMG_0001\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This big post has been in the ground\u00a0 for\u00a0 30 years\u00a0 from 1984. It is<\/p>\n

used to\u00a0 form the edges of a\u00a0 Garden\u00a0 Room outside our bedroom.<\/p>\n

The top of the post has rotted away leaving a 150 mm depression in<\/p>\n

the top of the post. A pair of birds has made their\u00a0 nest in the top of<\/p>\n

the post.\u00a0 The eggs have hatched out to give little babies which are fed by<\/p>\n

the\u00c2\u00a0 parents flying back and forth. See the photo below.<\/p>\n

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\"Blue-faced<\/a><\/p>\n

The Blue Faced Honey Eater is a a brightly coloured, bold and<\/p>\n

loud bird, found in the bush as well as in town. It grows to<\/p>\n

26cm. The adults have a distinctive blue skin patch around<\/p>\n

their eyes. It has a bright olive back with a black head and throat.<\/p>\n

Its underbody is white. Young Blue Faced Honey Eaters have a green<\/p>\n

facial\u00a0 patch.<\/p>\n

\"001\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Very occasionally, koala bears\u00a0 pass through our land on the way to other places.<\/p>\n

They eat the leaves of a\u00a0 certain kind of eucalyptus tree. There are hundreds of kinds of<\/p>\n

eucalyptus trees in Australia but only a few\u00a0 species that they feed on. Read more at this website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"wallaby<\/a><\/p>\n

Wallabies<\/strong>: There are many wallabies on our land …. even present during the day.<\/p>\n

You could be having lunch outside\u00a0 and a wallaby jumps along a boundary fence nearby.<\/p>\n

You might come home at night and a wallaby jumps\u00a0 down the driveway ahead<\/p>\n

then jumps off to the side among the trees. One morning about a year ago, Harriet<\/p>\n

came quietly to me at about 7.30 am to me\u00a0 in the kitchen and silently motioned<\/p>\n

me to come quietly up to our bedroom. We have\u00a0 glass all around our house and<\/p>\n

our bedroom looks out over a pond with water and water lilies. See the photo<\/p>\n

below.\u00a0 A sloped bank rises up about 2.00 metres high to to flow into the slight<\/p>\n

slope of our land. On top of the bank was a really amazing scene. A mother<\/p>\n

wallaby was bent down feeding on the grass. She had a\u00a0 full pouch\u00a0 with a little<\/p>\n

joey with his head out, looking at the world. When she finished feeding, she<\/p>\n

jumped down the land with about five other wallabies. It was just beautiful to<\/p>\n

be so close to a wild animal yet would not have seen us as the glass\u00a0 wall would<\/p>\n

show reflections the surrounding bush.<\/p>\n

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The pond outside our bedroom. We have seen black ducks<\/a>\u00a0 swimming in this pond amongst the waterlilies.<\/p>\n

\"Possum\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Mother possum with a\u00a0 little baby\u00a0 possum on her back<\/strong><\/p>\n

One morning a few\u00a0 years ago I was in my office. My wife had gone to work\u00a0 and I heard a<\/p>\n

little sound out in\u00a0 the front arbour area. I went out and here was the little baby possum<\/p>\n

on the brick\u00a0 paving at the front door. I realised he must have fallen down from his mother<\/p>\n

who slept up in the outside \/\\\u00a0 of the top projecting ridge beam. I picked him up and placed<\/p>\n

him on one of the arbour vines with the hope he could back up to his mother. I went back to<\/p>\n

my office and soon heard a bigger sound. I went back out and here was the mother possum<\/p>\n

down on the paving getting the baby onto her back. She climbs up one of the\u00a0 arbour<\/p>\n

vines to reach a 50 mm wide timber edge on the\u00a0 front \/\\ window. She walks along this ledge<\/p>\n

for a 2.00 metres then turns around and starts going the other way. The bush trees are reflected<\/p>\n

in the glass so run in and get my camera and get this photo.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_0037\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Red-tailed black cockatoo<\/strong><\/p>\n

The red-tailed black cockatoo also known as Banksian\u00a0 or<\/p>\n

‘Banks’ black cockatoo, is a large black cockatoo native to Australia.<\/p>\n

Adult males have a characteristic pair of bright red panels on<\/p>\n

the tail that gives the species its name.<\/p>\n

Read more on this website<\/a><\/p>\n

\"066\"<\/a>Rosella parrot<\/strong><\/p>\n

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Ranging in size from<\/p>\n

2637 cm (1014.5 in), rosellas are medium-sized parrots with<\/p>\n

long tails. The feathers on their backs show an obvious scalloping<\/p>\n

appearance with colouring that differs between the species.<\/p>\n

All species have distinctive cheek patches. Sexual dimorphism<\/p>\n

is absent or slight\u00a0 males and females generally have similar<\/p>\n

plumage, apart from the western rosella<\/a>. The juveniles of the<\/p>\n

blue-cheeked species, and western rosella, all have a distinctive<\/p>\n

green-based plumage, while immature plumage of the<\/p>\n

white-cheeked species is merely a duller version of the adults.<\/p>\n

See images of Rosella parrots at this website<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"King<\/a><\/p>\n

The Australian king parrot<\/b><\/p>\n

This morning in October 2015, this beautiful parrot pays us a visit by<\/p>\n

sitting on a branch over one of\u00a0 our ponds. The bright red and the brilliant<\/p>\n

green feathers stands out\u00a0 amidst the grey – green leaf foliage. This parrot<\/p>\n

is normally found in humid and heavily forested upland regions of the<\/p>\n

eastern portion of the\u00a0 Australian\u00a0 continent, including eucalyptus wooded areas in<\/p>\n

and directly adjacent to subtropical and temperate rainforest. They feed<\/p>\n

on fruits and seeds gathered from trees or on the ground.<\/p>\n

See images of King parrots at this website<\/a><\/p>\n

________________________________________________<\/p>\n

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