For starters there are the cockatoos. They�ve been using our pool as a watering hole for the past 10 years so it�s no surprise if you go out to do the washing and there is a family of cockies having a wash. Second there are the ducks who not surprisingly use the pool as their own personal pond and routinely turn up at 9.30 every morning to drift along the pond and tell their ducklings about the great story of the old pond. Thirdly there are the possums that live in our palm trees. They�ve been in residence for at least two years now but they haven�t been showing their faces a lot until recently. It�s great to pop out into the backyard at night and shine up a torch at them and see their little faces looking down on you. They�ve been a little frisky lately and we couldn�t figure out why until Mum went out into the backyard on Saturday night and thought that the possum looked weird. I figure she wasn�t wearing her glasses cause when she called out for me to look at the cute possum I came face to face with a fourth animal residing in our backyard, a flying fox (bat). He was hanging upside down from one of the palm fronds and I think it has put the possums into a tizz. I checked a website and it says they are usually found in tropical rainforests in north-eastern Australia so I can�t figure out he made his way to our place. Maybe he was a bat that was wearing a little fur collar, who knows, it's all the rage at the moment.

We used to have mice and rats which would come over from the building site over the back fence but I�m pretty sure Mac culled them all a while back. We also have a fair few spiders making their home in our house and garden. A lot of people don�t believe me that we have funnel webs in our pool and such so I pull out the container filled with 20 or so spiders we�ve trapped and stuck in metho to preserve for such an occasion. Speaking of deadly creatures we�ve also had a red belly black snake curled up in the catcher of our mower. He sought refuge in it because it was black and had been nicely warmed by the sun. Dad got a nasty shock when he shook the clippings out onto the garden and this snake reared up at him. We don�t live in the bush and these snakes are usually found there, why are we becoming a wildlife refuge? Is there a sign written in Parseltongue, Possumian and Insectese inviting all and sundry to come live with us?

Then there was the time we convinced a Pom friend that we had a koala living in our big eucalyptus tree up the back. We put a toy koala (covered with real koala fur actually) with it�s back to us in the tree and then made a big show of getting a ladder to bring it out of the tree so she could hold it. She fell for it from a distance until she noticed the seam on the back of the head as she got closer. Hehehe.

Knowing I�ll get home tonight and find an emu on the back porch

Tyd

30 April 2002 - 10:34 am

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