4 February 2007

Predators of the local area

"Predators of what?".
You may well ask!
I am being simplistic for the moment and sticking to the more obvious ones; the ones that might be responsible for the little heaps of feathers.

Predators that I have seen while walking the creek include a snake, a pair of adult wedge-tail eagles and several solitary goannas. I have heard that the goannas climb trees for birds' eggs and nestlings.

Snakes and goannas are very common along Shorty Road and can be seen moving slowly across the roads as well the cleared summer paddocks, between the remaining stands of native vegetation.

This last trip we also saw a

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