Wildlife Snaps

[Pan mixer]

Can totally recommend Kania traps. Instant kill and once you have got rid of the troublesome ones you get normal ones - no raiders and stay away.
They learn from each other far more than I thought,

Fortunately the little grey devils haven't really got to us South of the reservoir at present, this one was in Devon

 

[CPF]

This leopard seal normally found in Antarctica , are rarely spotted in Australia
But this one came up on the beach yesterday

 

[Pan mixer]

View attachment 1043467This leopard seal normally found in Antarctica , are rarely spotted in Australia
But this one came up on the beach yesterday View attachment 1043464View attachment 1043465

Looks like it has been there before and freeze branded.

 

[Welly Warmer]

They're great pictures. I always thought leopard seals had a more slender body and a longer snout/jaw. I assume it's been identified from it's number. A brave person has branded it! They have a fearsome rep.

 

[Welly Warmer]

Looking again, I think there are 2 species - the top picture may be a leopard - slim and light grey.
The branded animals are to my untrained eye not leopards - too dark, too pudgy and too short a snout. (I'm not sure you could brand a leopard seal, no matter how brave you are!)

 

[CPF]

It’s the same seal u7 97 last 2 photos taken by a friend walking the in the morning, then we went to see It later in the day .
Freeze branding got ban in 1999
The information I got was from the Australian park’s officer wild animal department.
There a lot of talking going on to which spacey it is.

 

[Welly Warmer]

It’s the same seal u7 97 last 2 photos taken by a friend walking the in the morning, then we went to see It later in the day .
Freeze branding got ban in 1999
The information I got was from the Australian park’s officer wild animal department.
There a lot of talking going on to which spacey it is.View attachment 1043711

Hi @CPF yes, you are right, its the same beast.
The upturned corner of the mouth looks very strange for a leopard. Leopards have a very "flat" mouth which gives their very distinctive reptilian appearance.
The "lot of talk about what spacey it is" - do you mean here or at Aussie wildlife dept
?

 

[Jerry]

weigh day. Just two chicks this year but big and happy.

 

[Pan mixer]

We did weigh day yesterday, 3 chicks, this was the middle sized one. All 3 ladies - you can tell by the spots under their wings apparently.

He said that this one was 6-7 weeks.

 

[Pan mixer]

Bee with a heavy load of leek pollen

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[Pan mixer]

Fresh out of the nest Collared Dove Chicks.

 

[its.... only me]

A weigh, ring & sexing - day for us today, so lucky to catch the first box as the are ready to fledge in a day or so. 1 male & 1 female this year. As has been said the young female has spots on the underside of their wings.
The younger ones are again 1 male & 1 female + the remains of one that didn't make it. We put this box up last year - but was occupied by Jackdaws....... not so this year.

 

[Pan mixer]

Good picture of the wing spots, wish that I had thought of that at the time.

 

[CPF]

Some wildlife pictures from Australia from my recent visit at my daughters ATTACH=full]1061553[/ATTACH] A fairywren

Aberdeen Angus is with calf’s

A baby Joey the mother got run over and they tried to save the little one but it did not survive

A kangaroo with Joey In it’s pouch they would jump out and run around like spring lambs playing

these would come and see us at my daughter’s place just sit along the porch watching ,we could get up to 9 King parrots and 5/6kookaburras

A little seal pup was washing around like it’s lost its mother and it came to sure manage to get a picture of it and about four hours later the mother was out not far from it must’ve been off fishing

Just a load of caterpillars on a leaf thought it looked interesting . King parrots on my wife’s chair and she ran away and took the pictures

A wombat never seen any before

and Emu

they are all wild animals none in captivity they just come and go when they want .Not the cows they’re in the back paddock.

 

[Wilksy]

Love a kookaburra!

 

[CPF]

Love a kookaburra!

We love the kookaburras when they start laughing (calling )in the morning and the noise they make just make you smile and chuckle to yourself.

 

[Pan mixer]

Good pictures, does your daughter live somewhere gifted in wildlife, I was there for 6 months and the only wild wildlife that I saw were a few cockatoos and a snake or two.

I liked the Magpie - or at least the noise it makes, never saw one.

 

[CPF]

Good pictures, does your daughter live somewhere gifted in wildlife, I was there for 6 months and the only wild wildlife that I saw were a few cockatoos and a snake or two.

I liked the Magpie - or at least the noise it makes, never saw one.

On the great ocean road at wye river 1.5 hrs from Geelong/ 3 hrs from Melbourne
Wye river in the great otway national park which as got lot of wildlife .
But we took the caravan down to Wilson promontory at tidal river a national park aswell it’s right at the bottom of australia where we see the wombat and the emu.
A magpie for you

 

[jondear]

Old man stumbled across these little things hiding in some straw back in August .
Still seeing them growing fast .
Hedgehogs have appeared again after a 3 year cull !

 

[Pan mixer]

Bit of an odd one, one of the ponds has gone dryish.

Mussels (all empty) all about 4 inches long.