Local Wildlife

One of the greatest things about rural living is the amazing wildlife we get to see on a regular basis. We have a family of magpies that live in our area, as well as many little mickeys, some plovers, and pigeon dove birds. These we all see nearly ever day, but with spring in the air, there have been some new and exciting visitors to our backyard.

We first saw this family of wood ducks, with their 9-11 ducklings (hard to count them, they keep moving so fast) on the side of the road one morning. They visit our backyard every couple of days, and we regularly see them in neighbouring yards as well. Aren't they adorable?

These brightly coloured rainbow lorikeets visited a few days ago, along with these little green parrots. I'm not sure exactly what they are, but they were beautifully colourful.

Then this morning we heard a very strange noise, almost like a child screaming. After looking around, we found these two koalas up a tree on the other side of the road, fighting! They screamed at each other, growled, then the lower one left the tree.

I wonder what tomorrow will bring?