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.
Oh, we've ditched the white c*ckies in our move, and have the black ones here, from time to time, too!
How could I forget the frogs? You reminded me, Cally! We have a bazillion frogs (hence the snakes!) that sing us to sleep every night, because the cowshed is next to a dam, and there are streams from springs in the hills all around us, as well as the creek. It's my favourite thing about night, the frog-song - it's so loud, and I genuinely miss it when I spend the night anywhere else.
Mostly I see very fat, very healthy looking fruit-snatching possums.
Blue tongue lizards. We had a lovely one in the back garden but I think he escaped next door when they put the new fence up which is good because my little dog had started to harrass it
A koala wandering around my front garden.
Lots of birds - we have some big trees in the area - magpies, lorikeets, little nectar-eating things with yellow cheeks (hmm, not much of a birdwatcher am i?)
Every so often we get a Mumma and Papa duck taking a string of fluffy little duckling for a family outing up the street. Very cute.
There are snakes and rats in this burb but we've never seen them.
Oh, and we get owls that sound like dogs (barking owls?) and I think we also have a boobook from time to time.
I love duck families!
Koalas - we had a mama and baby coming through every couple of months, until only the baby started coming through. The horses are used to it hanging over them in the yard, and the koala is even used to our dogs at the base of the tree, waiting for it to fall out. Obviously, he never does!
Marydean, our owls include boobooks - weird sounding, huh?
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