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Snake, our Diamond Python Snake enjoying a meal of Possum...

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Sorry little possum, you can't come in there is a pane of glass between us!

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 The good, eating all the bugs...
 The Bad, eating David's sugar...
And the Ugly!  What the heck is this??

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No no you naughty Possum, you are not coming inside!

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 Found near the Tennis Court steps early on Tuesday morning by our friend Niall who was doing some gardening for us... a little Kookaburra baby fallen out of it's nest.

Niall watched it while he worked and saw that it's mother and another Kookaburra was constantly keeping an eye on it and feeding it so we left it where it was.  This little Kookaburra moved backwards and forwards slowly away from the road and towards the house keeping nice and close to the brick wall till Niall decided to move it to a safer more protected place.  

Mummy kept going back to where her baby was last seen but when I stood still a little distance away but looking at our baby it's mother dived in with a worm for her.  
 Our little baby was making soft calling noises and it's mother kept coming to feed it. 

David and I kept checking but we decided that maybe it was injured so I rang WIRES and explained, they suggested I call our local Vet which I did and was told to bring her up for them to check over.
 David put her in a little box but Mother appeared and told us off in no uncertain terms... so we put our little baby back in the bushes and I rang the Vet to tell them.
 After watching for another couple of hours we saw no sign of Mother and I was worried about her being so exposed, so we packed her up in the box again and David walked up to the Vets with our little baby safe and sound.
 The Vet checked her out carefully, took our details and we left her.

I slept soundly not having to worry about our little baby outside in the cold.

Then...   late Wednesday afternoon... two people walked down our driveway with a cage in hand and our little baby safely inside.   They were Elizabeth and Paul from Wildlife, they told us that our little Kookaburra had been checked over and was perfectly okay with no injuries and asked if they could settle her back in her home territory...  COULD THEY???    WELL YES!!!

So we tried to work out exactly where the safest place would be to put our baby up in a tree, David got this small box, it was stuffed with leaf mulch, the bottom flap was wired to make the new home safe and secure so she wouldn't fall out and within 10 minutes from first arrival Mother Kookaburra could be seen flying around us... all four of us moved up the driveway a little and watched  from a distance.  

Mother Kookaburra flew in with some delicious morsel then flew to the corner of the house closest to her baby... then very loudly and very long and very clear announced to the whole wide World that her baby was back...  How wonderful is this!


Thursday morning... I woke just before 6 am and couldn't say in bed, I had to check on our baby...

...  She was still asleep :-)   I've put a little stepladder nearby so I can climb up to check on her...  

Good Morning little one...

I've decided to name her, we call our beautiful Water Dragon... Milly, the dog next door is Molly so I've called our baby Kookaburra Mandy  :-) 
Milly Molly Mandy, a much loved series of books from my childhood.

POSTSCRIPT...  As I watched our baby one Kookaburra dug around in our garden, found one great big worm and flew straight to her baby who gobbled her breakfast with a lot of happy noises.    I followed this Mother then I noticed another Kookaburra fly into the baby nest with more yummy worm food... and a THIRD Kookaburra sat on a branch not far away watching.    Three Mothers for our baby Kookaburra, can this be possible.

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How can we STOP these cute little rabbits from multiplying all through the bush and suburbia!

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How lucky are we to have a couple of Water Dragons to share our garden with.

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 I know what you're wondering...  Maybe I was and maybe I wasn't, I'm just not telling, okay!

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My Water Dragon is enjoying a bit of sun after a long hibernation... this is the second time this Spring that I've seen this little lovely, never up this high though.

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Mmmmm... there are lots of these cute furry pests over there and I know some have visited us here as well.

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 Isn't this snake beautiful, we found it on our tennis court sometime last year... it was dead and we haven't seen any like it since, so it's appearance is a bit of a mystery.

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Well it was but our Dragon family have gone into Hibernation now.

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 This little cat was hanging around the bus stop getting more and more concerned as people walked by... it slid between the rails of next doors gate and came back went back through and kept going back and forth here and there... it looked at the road and cringed and shook as a car went by.  We were about to play tennis but were worried that somebody's beloved pet might get hurt, we had no idea where it had come from.

As each of my friends arrived for tennis this little cat stopped still, checked them over, then went back to pacing around after it realized this person wasn't its owner.   Eventually we decided we should take it up to the Vet so they could check who owned it and get in touch with them.  Mavis tried to pick her up but no way... this cat wasn't going to be picked up by a stranger.
 Very bravely she came up on the tennis court... pacing... pacing...
 Getting a bit more relaxed...
 Now very relaxed.
 Then our cat lady tennis player, Robyn arrived with her cat box.
 Mavis was the brave one who caught this cat and the little thing quite readily went into the box.
... and up to the Vet who read the chip and contacted the owners who had caught the bus at our bus stop and were hoping the cat would find it's way home.  The poor little thing seemed so scared we had to get it to safety before we could play.  I have no idea where it belongs but it's waiting at the Vets for it's owners to come home.

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 The base stuff has arrived!  it will go under the bricks where that trench in the background is... we had to replace the sewerage pipes many many months ago, so now the earth has settled down and Rob is coming next week to relay the bricks.    The trench goes from the garage to the front door...    Hip Hip Hooray... no more mud to try and step over.

And our little friend is still around, I've very naughtily started giving him the odd grape which he loves so now every day he comes looking for me... I won't feed him everyday, I don't want him to become dependent on me of course but it is fun to see him gobble up the odd grape or blueberry.

Yesterday he climbed the tree outside my sewing room and peered in at me!  

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 David spotted it, I thought it was a leaf but David was correct.    We have a new baby Water Dragon.  Isn't it the sweetest thing you ever saw... and below the proud Mummy Water Dragon... I wonder if there will be any more, I checked up, Water Dragons lay up to 9 eggs at a time from around October to December and they hatch late Summer to early August.   Click Here if you would like to know more.

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