ANIMALS SPOTTED SO FAR.
pink galahs, white cockatoos, green and yellow parrots(3Ó),
green and yellow parrots (5Ó)
boomas, roos, joeys, euros, and a long haired blind one sitting on a rock, (we
sat for a long time)
racehorse lizards,
ghekkos,
black cockatoos,
a pair of wedge tailed eagles, a pair of peregrine falcons
two rabbits,
a 16inch wild tabby cat,
a dying roo,
3 emus.
long haired black goat (male, huge horns)
tiny lizard-lizard,
green grasshopper
flying grey horned when open legs blue locust thing
crickets
an albino cricket
locusts (brown ones, orange ones, yellow ones)
wolf spiders (from half an inch to 3 inches. watch for the wires they string
between the trees at eyeball height. apparently their method of capture is to
jump and grab.)
jewel spiders
a female wolf spider (furry swollen broad bean sized belly)
a pink hawk
the told me off bird
pied butcher birds (heard in maps more than seen. it seems they sing in c sharp
major, after the flute flute bird has established the tonic, with the crickets
providing noise buzz electronics on the dominant in the foreground)
the australian magpie, often
tiny flocks of tiny zebra finches.
huge flocks of green budgies.
black flies, blue flies, shiny green flies, huge plastic joke shop looking flies
a 5 foot monitor lizard ( or bungarra or extra from jurassic park; run away)
an olive green snake with yellow and red bands.
a smaller brighter version of the same thing half an hour later. ( i guess that
was the guy)
and bigotas in fact is the local word for euros.
WHY DO THINGS MOVE ON STRONG HOPPY BACKLEGS AND HAVE POUCHES ?
answers to : knees@space.net.au
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A pair of pink falcons hassling a pair of wedge tailed eagles
high in the still azure sky.
(theprevious hawk was a falcon)
a camp visiting adolescent bungarra
a desert death adder (well the back 3ft end, the rest under a ledge)
heaps of yellow throated miner birds
the flute flute bird is in fact the common bell bird.
heaps of crested pigeons
hard backed midges that hurl Êthemselves into your face at cooking time as handfuls
of hundreds and thousands.
an overall 70% increase in the insect population.
a dead horse.
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