tiger snake by the pond

farmyard animals & wildlife


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chooks, cattle, birds, snakes and more

hungry baby starlings

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Every year a Common Starling lays its eggs in the deep hollow inside an old gate post. We still use the gate, hence the bolts you see going through the post. You can see the whole fence post in this photo (yes, under the cat!) and the eggs these chickies hatched from in this photo . Here the chicks have just hatched (some are concealed by the fence brace) and are keen for food.

our new heifer calves

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Today Gill & Graham Nicolls delivered our two new girls, our heifer calves. They are angus/fresian cross and the plan is they will be mother to our beef cattle every year. The red one is Halley , the black one Martha .

our new heifer calves

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Today Gill & Graham Nicolls delivered our two new girls, our heifer calves. They are angus/fresian cross and the plan is they will be mother to our beef cattle every year. The red one is Halley , the black one Martha .

stick insect

15 Dec 2010 58
Oliver, Hayden and Toby found this stick insect in our cypress hedge

stick insect

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Oliver, Hayden and Toby found this stick insect in our cypress hedge

our first snake!

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1. mighty hunter with his flaying chain

our first snake!

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2. it keeps moving

our first snake!

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3. Sandy & dangly dead snake

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4. decapitated snake

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5. the body kept reacting to touch for over an hour

our first snake!

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6. snake underbelly

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7. the snake head kept trying to bite us for the next hour

our first snake!

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8. we decided it would be a waste to just chuck it out, and decide to keep the skin to cure.

our first snake!

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9. Sandy gets personal while we consider how to do this

our first snake!

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10. Ad starts skinning

our first snake!

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11. Sandy continues with the finer points of skinning

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12. delicate work

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13. at that point Ad realises it looks like an eel and decides to eat it

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