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| My home with Tami who has now sadly passed on |
I am lucky enough to live on four acres 16km from the centre
of Brisbane. We have suburbia all around this isolated pocket of 500 four acre
blocks. The Government is unfortunately in the process of rezoning us from
rural to urban but hopefully I will be able to remain here until I retire from
Public Health Microbiology in 12 years time. One of the great joys
of being here (apart from the open air, not being too close to neighbours and
rural lifestyle) is the many birds and animals who visit. Let me introduce some of them.....
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| Magpie |
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| Rail |
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| Kookaburra |
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| Ibis, Pacific Black Duck, Crested Pigeon, Sulphur Crested Cockatoo & Lorikeets |
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| Flowering Red Gum Loved by Lorikeets |
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| Rocket Frog |
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| Sulphur Crested Cockatoo |
Visitors not shown also include:
Crow, Butcher Bird, Little Corella, Galah, Butcherbird, Peaceful
Dove, White-faced Heron, Pelican (to our
surprise! There is a colony at Forest Lake which is only about five kms from
here), Noisy Miner, Indian Miner, Pheasant Coucal, Australian Wood Duck, Magpie Lark, Bar Shouldered Dove, Spotted Dove, Rock Dove, Straw-necked
Ibis, Royal Spoonbill, Cattle Egret, Sacred Kingfisher, Superb
Fairy Wren, Bush Stone Curlew, Willy Wagtail, Australasian Darter as well as some snakes (one downside to being here but I ignore them as long as they do the same to me) and lots of other frogs, possums, flying foxes, a fox (which was only passing through and decided my place was too noisy with two German Shepherds! and there were no chickens for a snack) and a bandicoot.
