December Wildlife 2013

[vanozzi]

So nice to see this visitor, now with cub.
Regards
Paul R

[Maggi Young]

So nice to see this visitor, now with cub.
Regards
Paul R

Only thing cuter than a Koala is a baby  Koala, I  see! Did she bring her cub to wish you a happy birthday, Paul?

[Anthony Darby]

Aren't koala babies called joeys.

[Maggi Young]

I suppose since the young of other marsupials, such as Kangaroo and Wallabies are "joeys" that might well be the case - but so many of us think of these critters as Koala "bears" that cub seems  reasonable.

[fermi de Sousa]

Hi Paul R,
I'll trade you an Echidna! Not quite as cuddly, however.
The rock garden beds are being churned through on a daily basis at present
cheers
fermi

[Anthony Darby]

Better than the mangey hedgehogs we get round here.

[arillady]

According to the wiki all marsupial babies are joeys.
Saw two dead koalas on the highway out of Adelaide last Saturday.
We have a resident kangaroo and her joey in our garden. No wonder most of the dried aril seed pods were on the ground but luckily most had mesh bags on them.

[Don B]

While this is from a couple of years ago, still a cute picture (our back walkway):

[Maggi Young]

While this is from a couple of years ago, still a cute picture (our back walkway):

Who knew that deer could talk Turkey?

[vanozzi]

Thanks for the card the other day Maggie.
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''I'll trade you an Echidna! Not quite as cuddly, however.
The rock garden beds are being churned through on a daily basis at present
cheers
fermi''

Hi Fermi, not sure such a trade is entirely legal, however, if it was you would have to chuck in at least liliums souliei, lophophorum and a flowering size yapingense to get my koalas !
The Echidna looks well fed.We have several jack-jumper ant nests here that it would be more than welcomed to clean up

[Roma]

Christmas lunch?

[Stan da Prato]

some snaps of grey seals from Inchkeith in the Firth of Forth yesterday - young pups still in white coats so still suckling -they do this for about three weeks then have to fend for themselves. December may seem a tough time to come into the world but these seals are doing well - there are now several colonies in the Forth where there used to be none. Even so pup mortality is high as they are vulnerable to storms.

[Stan da Prato]

more showing weaned pups moulted and ready for the sea, then two bulls fighting in the water, finally a pair  mating though the pup will not be born for another year.

[arillady]

Not exactly wildlife but a wild thing in the lavender. Anthony what is it - apart from a very colourful spider?

[Anthony Darby]

Looks like the Christmas spider (Austracantha minax) Pat.