Results tagged “Animals” from Kazza the Blank One
The parents headed off this morning, their plan being to go to Mogo Zoo. Looks like they had a much better day for it than we did last time we went. Here's some of Stu's photos of our day at Mogo Zoo, as promised six months ago...
Lions
Red Panda
Meerkat
Duck
White tigers
Giraffe
Zebra
Saw this guy scampering down a tree outside Stu's work last night. Thought it was a squirrel at first (squirrel!!) but we don't have those here, so of course it had to be a possum. Stu came out and it ran back up the tree. Very cute.
The other week when I was vaccuuming the pool, this bee was flitting around and decided to settle on the handle of the brush. It sat there and drank half a dozen decent-sized droplets of water. I didn't know where it could possibly store that much water!
A bit better than Shreve's goose... who is very cool to watch .. but didn't drink nearly its whole body weight in water :)
Pictures from the zoo trip.
I think this is a Sumatran Tiger
Lions
Stu got some cool pics of the Red Pandas, I should upload one of his..
This Red Browed Firetail was having a bath in the Red Panda enclosure
The servals were very cool
The Pygmy Marmosets were so cute
Some sort of Iguana..
Meerkat!
Didn't catch the name of this thing..
I think this is a Golden Lion Tamarin (I could be wrong)
Too many people around to get any closer to these guys
Male European Fallow Deer
European Fallow Deer and fawn
Look at the tongue!
So Saturday we decided to go to Sydney Wildlife World. It was actually pretty decent. Lots of Australian wildlife, and some interesting keeper talks. I took several hundred photos. Oops. :)
So last weekend (a week ago), Pirjo and Jarmo came to stay with us. Saturday evening was a very pleasant evening of wine, cheese, lamb roast and chatting.
Sunday we decided to go to Tidbinbilla, as they were interested in seeing some kangaroos up close. So off we went.
The funniest thing I didn't get a photo of was an emu being chased by an angry masked lapwing plover :)
Welcome Swallows
Various emus
Various kangaroos
A magpie
Through a gate
Some sort of ant
And then we left. Could have spent longer there, but they needed to drive 450km. So just had lunch in Belconnen and off they went.
We turned the light on in the kitchen late last night and saw not one but two cockroaches. Not german cockroaches, but a bit similar. So that was a little icky, and we're obviously going to have to be a bit more diligent about keeping the kitchen tidy.
But then I went into the bed room to get ready for bed, and saw what initially looked to be a *massive* cockroach scurrying along the top of the dirty clothes basket. Deciding it was too big to be any sort of crawling insect, I realised it was a mouse. Called Stu in, and we basically had it cornerd to one half of the bedroom, with no way out except past us. Saw it hiding in one corner behind my dresser. So I stuck a container next to the dresser and we forced it out from behind it.
It was soooo cute!! And *tiny* too. I wanted to keep it, but since it wasn't raised around humans, there was every chance the thing would have a heart attack and die on us, or just run away. So I let it go in the front yard.
But then I went into the bed room to get ready for bed, and saw what initially looked to be a *massive* cockroach scurrying along the top of the dirty clothes basket. Deciding it was too big to be any sort of crawling insect, I realised it was a mouse. Called Stu in, and we basically had it cornerd to one half of the bedroom, with no way out except past us. Saw it hiding in one corner behind my dresser. So I stuck a container next to the dresser and we forced it out from behind it.
It was soooo cute!! And *tiny* too. I wanted to keep it, but since it wasn't raised around humans, there was every chance the thing would have a heart attack and die on us, or just run away. So I let it go in the front yard.