In my small town backyard.

[Hairyman]

I have closed my 'Out the back door' thread because I have moved house from the bush and now live in a rural town.
In this new thread I will photo-document what plants and animals I can find out my new back yard.
To kick off, I came home from work one afternoon last week and noticed a few feathers in the driveway and thought
a neighbours cat had made a bird kill. Once inside my son told me he was able to photograph a hawk consuming its kill through the window.


I think the kill was probably a feral spotted dove.

...and a very full crop it had too.

 

[Thrud]

Like father like son:risatonaD:

 

[barefoot dave]

G 'day man of hair
I had wondered what you would do, now in town (not a townie). You can't keep a good Bushie down!

Great shot of a flighty subject in difficult circumstances. Grey goshawk?

 

[Hairyman]

Brown or Collared Gosshawk I think.

 

[Howling Dingo]

Good stuff......

 

[Hairyman]

A very common Garden orb-weaver = Eriophora transmarina



Banded sugar ants = Camponotus consobrinus, one major and two minor workers.

 

[koalaboi]

At My place recently:



KB

 

[Bloffy13]

Always amazed at the photography. You guys amaze me.
Cheers
Bloffy

 

[pap11y]

Always amazed at the photography. You guys amaze me.
Cheers
Bloffy

Same here. Amazing pics..

 

[Hairyman]

Elegant snake-eyed skink = Cryptoblepharus pulcher

 

[Hairyman]

Tectocoris diophthalmus = Hibiscus Harlequin Bug, late instar nymph.

 

[Hairyman]

A Bee hawk moth came through the open backdoor tonight.

 

[Luke777]

Awesome pics, Gods creation is amazing. Thanks for sharing

 

[pap11y]

A Bee hawk moth came through the open backdoor tonight.
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Very unusual moth..

 

[Hairyman]

Next to my back steps recently.....

 

[Hairyman]

An Ogre Faced or Net Casting Spider = Deinopis sp. Just outside my back door under the porch light.


Waiting to cast it's net.

 

[Hairyman]

I found this one in leaf litter in my back yard. It is almost a leggless lizard, the legs being reduced to stumps with some bumps for toes.
Possibly Saiphos equalis.

 

[Aussie123]

I found this one in leaf litter in my back yard. It is almost a leggless lizard, the legs being reduced to stumps with some bumps for toes.
Possibly Saiphos equalis.

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Very nice.
Hard to tell, but also consider a Delma impar (Striped Legless Lizard) ?

 

[Hairyman]

It is rather small and I think def a skink, delmas are a different family.
Eastern mulch slider – Lerista fragilis is another possibility and pretty common apparently.

 

[Le Loup]

Full marks to your son for recording this, well done!
Keith.