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I love living semi rural
Topic Started: Oct 4 2007, 10:11:48 PM (187 Views)
Anne
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Wonderful Winsome Wench

To add to all the parrotts, gallahs, kookaburras, possums and lizards we have we also now have a resident owl :thumbsup:

He was doing a flyby round our heads at dusk this evening on the lawn before taking up perch in one of the trees :more:
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no chance of any mice then !! :thumbsup:
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Owls are fantastic ,you lucky thing ,better than the noisy crows here :wacko:
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Anne
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ohippy
4th October, 2007 - 08:19pm
no chance of any mice then !! :thumbsup:

No, the owls are probably fighting the snakes for them :o
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rjs
4th October, 2007 - 08:39pm
Owls are fantastic ,you lucky thing ,better than the noisy crows here :wacko:

Believe you me the kookaburras are just as noisy. I love 'em though :yes:
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we have them, and the rest of the birds and bobtails, roos and snakes. No owls though :( nor possums :( nor koalas :(

Got a witchety grub if there are any takers though :D
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Not seen a witchety grub yet are they just fat maggots ??????
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ohippy
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sort of, they are longer and very fat and you can see all their pooh at one end. They are yuck :blink:
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They sound quite charming :nosepicker: Thought Mutley might have given it a chew????
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He would have done but was shut in as we were moving the tree in. He's going nuts at the minute as he can smell all the lizards in the garden and is trying to sniff them out from their hiding holes !!
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Youngest nearly ran a bobtail over with her bicycle ,she just stood there amazed even though it was hissing at her :blink: All the kangaroos round here seem to have disappeared :nah: swap you your lizards ,for our crows & ants :P
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Anne4Terry
4th October, 2007 - 10:11pm
To add to all the parrotts, gallahs, kookaburras, possums and lizards we have we also now have a resident owl :thumbsup:

He was doing a flyby round our heads at dusk this evening on the lawn before taking up perch in one of the trees :more:

That is just brilliant Anne :D

My favourites around our place are the rainbow bee eaters very pretty birds. Then followed closely by the sunbird....just love their nest building abilities.
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We get widgedity grubs in the wood pile, they make me wanna throw. Niall gets them and puts them in a tank for pets :barf:

We get possoms, cockies, rosellas, king parrotts FLAMIN galahs Kookaburras and for a rare treat we get two types of black cocatoo. One sort has yellow rings around their eys and the other ones have red tails. Oh and we get bats too!

I love living slightly out of the burbs too!
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Hevs
5th October, 2007 - 08:14am
We get widgedity grubs in the wood pile, they make me wanna throw. Niall gets them and puts them in a tank for pets :barf:

We get possoms, cockies, rosellas, king parrotts FLAMIN galahs Kookaburras and for a rare treat we get two types of black cocatoo. One sort has yellow rings around their eys and the other ones have red tails. Oh and we get bats too!

I love living slightly out of the burbs too!

We get the big black cockatoos with red spots on their tails too :thumbsup: Mind you, they make an awful mess by stripping the tree outside the laundry room straight into the gutters on the house roof.

We have two families of redcaps too :thumbsup:
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5th October, 2007 - 07:04am
My favourites around our place are the rainbow bee eaters very pretty birds.

What's a rainbow bee eater look like ? I want one, sonds gorgeous !
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ohippy
5th October, 2007 - 11:53am
What's a rainbow bee eater look like ? I want one, sonds gorgeous !

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Underneath the wing it is orange as well, very busy pretty little bird. Belongs I think to the king fisher family. The ones by us have chicks at the moment as you can see them flying in and out of their nest.
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oh wow, that's a stunning bird, really gorgeous.
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They are beautiful.
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Was in my front garden & something swooped past in the dark ,we have an owl :yess: cant believe it ,not sure what it was looked in my bird book & it looks like a frogmouth but book doesnt say anything about having them in WA???
Whatever it was made a nice change from crows.
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rjs
10th October, 2007 - 07:23pm
Was in my front garden & something swooped past in the dark ,we have an owl :yess: cant believe it ,not sure what it was looked in my bird book & it looks like a frogmouth but book doesnt say anything about having them in WA???
Whatever it was made a nice change from crows.

no that was a swooping frigging magpie - i got swooped 6 times the other eve whilst out for a walk. not been since. little buggers
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:lol: :lol:
Have been told to stare at swooping magpies as they dont like eyeballs ,would be too scared of loosing eyeballs :crazy:
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I did that and they wouldn't swoop then but how do you continue going wherever you are going and stare at a ruddy magpie too ?

Not been swooped yet, but I'm bound to be soon
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Anne4Terry
4th October, 2007 - 10:11pm
To add to all the parrotts, gallahs, kookaburras, possums and lizards we have we also now have a resident owl :thumbsup:



Fark, that must be some show you and Terry are putting on :bix:
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she caters too :yes: :thumbsup: :kissed:
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rjs
10th October, 2007 - 07:56pm
:lol: :lol:
Have been told to stare at swooping magpies as they dont like eyeballs ,would be too scared of loosing eyeballs :crazy:

bit difficult to do that when they come from behind.
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Hope you are still talking about magpies catgirl :lol: :lol: :kissed:
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rjs
11th October, 2007 - 09:49am
Hope you are still talking about magpies catgirl :lol: :lol: :kissed:

Or kamikaze Bix parachuting in his Victorian undies :lol:
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:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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rjs
11th October, 2007 - 09:49am
Hope you are still talking about magpies catgirl :lol: :lol: :kissed:

of course, what else would it be :nosepicker:
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