We've been busy! Tree felling, gardening and wildlife watching. The last one you can't help but do on this property. It's wonderful. But first of all this tree had to go as it was leaning over the house. Glenn's felled a few trees in his time but bringing down a tree this size still gets the ol' adrenalin running!
Then we decided to rip up the lawn (that wasn't a lawn) with a view to transforming it into a garden of some sort. As my friend said, "Eeeee, what ye can do with a back'oe!" Beats the garden fork, especially when it's rock hard clay as this is!
The other evening we'd let Woody out to do what he had to do and when I went to see where he was, he was laying on the front deck looking up. Can you see a tail hanging over the cross beam there?
Isn't he absolutely gorgeous? A brush tail possum, I believe! 
While I was away Glenn had been watching a pair of kookaburras tending a nest in a tree hollow near the house. As the back balcony is on the same level as the tree tops we have a good view of the birds. A few days after I got back the baby was out and learning to fly. We watched the parents feeding him (or her). Once, while Glenn was watching, the parent landed on a branch next to the baby with something wriggling in its mouth. The baby was facing the other way. The parent waited for a couple of minutes, gave up, flew away and came back facing the same way as the baby and fed it the food.
They often come down to the pond and bird bath. The other strange thing they do, or one of them anyway, is crash into the windows and glass doors. I've pulled blinds but it makes no difference. And often, between 5 and 6am we hear the crash at the glass sliding door to the balcony, and this is followed by banging. Glenn got up once to see the kookaburrra actually sitting on the deck by the door banging on the glass??
This (above) is what the pond used to look like. It sprung a leak, unfortunately, or perhaps it was fortunately because we decided to make a new one!!! (Again the backhoe comes in handy!)
The surrounding rocks are Mookaite and a few Dragonstone over the back.
And today we transplanted some native plants over the back.
They often come down to the pond and bird bath. The other strange thing they do, or one of them anyway, is crash into the windows and glass doors. I've pulled blinds but it makes no difference. And often, between 5 and 6am we hear the crash at the glass sliding door to the balcony, and this is followed by banging. Glenn got up once to see the kookaburrra actually sitting on the deck by the door banging on the glass??
This (above) is what the pond used to look like. It sprung a leak, unfortunately, or perhaps it was fortunately because we decided to make a new one!!! (Again the backhoe comes in handy!)
The surrounding rocks are Mookaite and a few Dragonstone over the back. 
And today we transplanted some native plants over the back. 
1 comment:
Impressed, I am!
That pond looks gorgeous.
Re the window crashing Kooky. Like the Blue Fairy Wren they see their reflection and 'see' another bird and get territorial.
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