In the wild: Animals edition
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There's an area of native bush or woodland in the park near where I live, and there's some wildlife that frequents it.
Yesterday I saw a couple of older gentlemen on the bridge across a creek that runs through it. It turns out that they were watching a Platypus. It climbed out onto a log, and I got a rather poor photograph with my phone's camera.
The sighting came about half-an-hour after I'd been verbally abused by a woman for having my dog off-leash in an off-leash area...
I saw an Echidna back in December. They're a spiked marsupial that resembles a Hedgehog or Porcupine.
I've seen a couple of Kangaroos, and several snakes. I don't have any pictures of them, because I'm normally trying to stop my dog from sniffing them or following them into the undergrowth.
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@endo those are so cool, used to love watching the giant salamanders at the zoo
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Saw another hawk, up close. This one was eating a kill beside the road, and when I rolled up in the car it perched in a nearby tree. I rolled to a stop and we just looked at each other for a little while. I’m sure when I drove away it probably went back for its snack.
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@sabergirl looks like a red tailed hawk, which are larger than the coopers and red shouldered hawks we have around the east coast.
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@sabergirl the Merlin bird ID app is the only reason I really know. Red tails are biggest with rusty orange tail feathers. Red shouldered have same(ish) coloring on the sides of their breasts (shoulders) and coopers are smallest of the three, with tails that have dark and light markings.
