Friday, 26 October 2018

nesting and out & about

Spring is in full swing and the warm weather has birds busy building nests and our reptile critters on the move looking for mates.
Two of our resident honeyeaters have chosen nest sites close to the house with the Lewin Honeyeater deciding under the deck was ideal as it is out of the weather and the dense foliage of the pittosporum bush hid the nest. 


The Yellow-faced Honeyeater chose suspend its nest towards the end of a bamboo palm stem where it should be safe from the lace monitor lizards but hope that the tree snakes don't find it.




A Blue-tongue Lizard was crossing the road at our driveway but had stopped to have a bit of a sunbathe before moving on so it needed a bit of encouragement to get off the road to avoid being run over.


Getting ready to mow the grass and I had to wait for an Eastern Long-necked turtle to continue on its way to where ever it was going.