We see possums, owls, bats, foxes, kangaroos, lizards, c0ckatoos, rosellas, kookaburras, rabbits and im sure other animals that i can't think of right now.
Most often we see kangaroos.....funny story actually one early morning i was walking to the bus stop and this was when i worked on the other side of canberra so had to catch a bus at 7am so i was still half asleep and i was walking up the road and i saw what i thought was a person running towards me (this was before i got my glasses so i was blind as a bat pretty much) and it turned out to be a kangaroo lol it really wasnt surprising as i live near a golf course which is also next to paddocks. But the strangest time i saw one was when i was 13 looking out the kitchen window at my mums and seeing one bound straight past my house.. she lives in suburbia while yes the suburb does back onto a nature reserve but not the side we lived on, she lives on a main street which is off one of the main drags in that side of canberra.
I get LOTS of bobtails (aka shinglebacks and a few other name, part of the blue tongue lizard family) here, snakes, kangaroos, many many different birds, foxes, rabbits, racehourse goannas, skinks, many different moths/bugs/etc, centrepeeds, bats, owls, possums, frogs, echidnas, eagles plus many many more I'm sure
Most of the time we see ducks, geese, pelicans, other birds, moths, butterflies, bugs. We have seen rabbits, foxes and frogs (we had two in our backyard). A girl around the corner has a minature australian horse/pony and we see her walk it from time to time (funny seeing a horse on the footpath, dodging bikes/skateboards etc...)
Ohh we get ducks on our dam
It's great to see what else is out there, has anyone had to deal with an injured animal?
I have vowed if i see a roo get hit or that is 'freshly' injured i will stop and check if it's ok, going to start keeping a spare old towel and some gloves in the car.
We've had a couple of stunned birds - mum has an old birdcage and she puts them in there until they come back to being with it. She's rescued a Joey once too, the mum had been hit by a car and the Joey, still mainly pink skinned, had crawled out. She wrapped it in a towel and took it to the local vet. Vets usually have contacts for wildlife carers.
We had a rejected calf once, she'd been brought into the world via c/s so the cow didn't take to it straight away. So much fun though, milking the cow and bottle feeding the calf. Took about three days and the cow accepted her.
Mainly copperhead snakes (some red bellies and might be some browns around), all types of lizards (lotsa blue tongues), kookaburras, rosellas (eastern and crimson), wedge-tailed eagles, diff varieties of ducks, kestrels, butcher birds, magpies, wombats (should have been at the top of my list because we have wombats friggin everywhere), echidnas, wallabies, DP has seen a roo or two, brush-tailed possums, I suspect some gliders (after seeing a teeny thing on a tree one night that def wasn't a brushy or a baby brushy), crayfish are known in the creek, as well as eels, owls and micro-bats.
The kids love it
We have a blue tongue lizard that lives in our front garden and suns himself on the front door everyday - there's also a baby blue tongue in the side garden.
There are heaps of birds incl black and white ****atoos. We had a baby magpie last week that seemed to have fallen out of its nest, but it had jumped into a bush and it's parents are looking after it there. I had to slow down a few weeks ago for a pea**** to cross the road.
DH rescued a turtle a couple of weeks ago that was trying to cross the road. DD loved it, mainly because it wee-eed on him! We see a few echidnas, heaps of wallabies and kangaroos. (DD is on kangaroo watch when we are driving at dusk)
Sometimes we can see whales too!
We get skinks in the house, occasional frogs and there has been a feathertailed glider as well (I retreated to the back bedroom that night as I discovered it on my bedside lamp and first thought was mouse!). And a bat one night that I had to go and get BIL to rescue me from as DH was at work.
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