welcome wildlife

Jaymie · **Posted:** Sat Nov 26, 2011 2:35 pm

no pictures, and completely out of it's range, but there was an emu wandering the streets up here yesterday :dunno:

We're up in the hills and they are plains birds :dunno:

Simo · **Posted:** Mon Dec 26, 2011 12:00 am

Everyone this is Stumpy, Stumpy these are all the guys.

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Peasants · **Posted:** Mon Dec 26, 2011 1:39 am

Hello Stumpy :wave:

Wow, that is gorgeous!

Jaymie · **Posted:** Mon Dec 26, 2011 8:46 pm

we have quite a few of these in the yard. we saw about 8 of them today while shifting tanks

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that's Alex's gloved finger

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Simo · **Posted:** Tue Dec 27, 2011 11:01 pm

Cool spiders are great, I snapped this huntsman on an 8 inch beam on my verandah.

gnash · **Posted:** Tue Jan 03, 2012 2:29 pm

I hates them....snakes no problem but spiders freak me out :scared2:

anything that has more limbs then me is unwelcome :bat:

Faye · **Posted:** Wed Jan 04, 2012 7:40 pm

Guess you probably wont like this little baby then Gnash. When I went in to the chook pen today to check on the duck eggs, I was catapulted backwards when I walked in to a spider web. It was sooo strong, I looked up and found this beautiful creature, though I do not know what sort it is yet.

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Any ideas anyone? He is missing a leg, or so it appears!

Peasants · **Posted:** Wed Jan 04, 2012 10:30 pm

Gorgeous! Except when it gets in your hair at night time!! :run:

It looks like a Golden Orb....great photo :thumb:

Bender · **Posted:** Fri Jan 06, 2012 12:18 pm

Great photo Faye. That's a golden orb weaver. It makes one of the strongest spider webs in the world.

gnash · **Posted:** Fri Jan 06, 2012 12:50 pm

I have those buggers all over the place at home ..... just don't have the heart to kill them all....I'll let the birds do it for me :wink:

Peasants · **Posted:** Fri Jan 06, 2012 1:41 pm

They are gorgeous!! We have loads too, but they help catch the flies etc...and have been known to catch birds in their webs too! It certainly isn't fun walking into their webs though :run:

Simo · **Posted:** Fri Jan 13, 2012 8:45 am

This scorpion fell into a post hole I had dug and left uncovered over night, it is next to 1.5 inch pipe to show you the size, it is the biggerst one I have seen in my neck of the woods.

Simo · **Posted:** Fri Jan 13, 2012 10:15 am

This motorbike frog is one of two living in my aquaponics fish tank, he seems to avoid the trout somehow.

I love the way he has turned grey to blend in with the steel.

Peasants · **Posted:** Fri Jan 13, 2012 10:44 am

Lovely pics! that is a good sized scorpion too!! :scared2:

Faye · **Posted:** Fri Jan 13, 2012 3:44 pm

Ouch! That is one big scorpion, even one the size of a 20c pce packs a hec of a punch! We hade one come in the house on some firewood once, hmmm, must be more careful in future.

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