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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382259)
• Rockingham, Australia
27 Apr 25
Our third campsite on our time away was in the Dryandra Forest. There was some houses there that accommodated forestry workers. There are also several other campsites, one of which we stayed at in our motor-home. Vince’s brother...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382259)
• Rockingham, Australia
3 Apr 25
We’ve had some really hot weather while we’ve been house-sitting and we’ve enjoyed some really delicious watermelon. Vince usually cuts us up a bowlful each.
He took his outside today and accidentally dropped two pieces. We left...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382259)
• Rockingham, Australia
20 Mar 25
The little pregnant quenda was out on the lawn yesterday and I was taking photos of her. I accidentally hit the record button. The first half was of the camera swinging around but then I focussed on the quenda and there are a few...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382259)
• Rockingham, Australia
21 Feb 25
We stayed with my brother-in-law the other day and had our morning coffee under the patio. He has a large block which has a lot of vegetation including many native species. This is the ideal environment for the Australian...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382259)
• Rockingham, Australia
16 Jan 24
In my last post, I mentioned we’d brought my sister back with us as houses in her area were being evacuated because of a huge bush fire. Yesterday, we took her back to her home as the area was safe again. However, there are even...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382259)
• Rockingham, Australia
3 Dec 23
When we were at my brother-in-law’s place a few days ago, a quenda joined us. We were sitting under the patio enjoying a barbecue when the quenda or western brown bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus fusciventer), came sniffing around our...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382259)
• Rockingham, Australia
7 Feb 22
We were sitting under my brother-in-law’s patio yesterday when this little quenda/bandicoot came investigating the area. These little creatures seem to have made a resurgence through much of the metropolitan area and there are now...
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Fleur
@Fleura (35055)
• United Kingdom
27 Nov 20
Thought of you when I read this @JudyEv!
We all know that Australia is home to some of the most unusual and fascinating animals on Earth.
Well now it has been found that they are even more fascinating than previously thought;...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382259)
• Rockingham, Australia
24 Jan 19
When I’m sitting at my computer, I see some very interesting things out my window. The birdbath is in full view and birds, kangaroos and skinks often come for a drink. But today I had a new visitor. A little mouse-like creature...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382259)
• Rockingham, Australia
4 Aug 18
I’ve had a few questions about wombats so I thought I’d do a discussion about them. Their taxonomical name is Vombatus ursinus. They are the world’s largest burrowing mammal and are only found in Australia and a few offshore...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382259)
• Rockingham, Australia
11 Jun 18
My last post was about the Tasmanian pademelon, a small marsupial that belongs to the kangaroo family. However I’ve found more photos on the web and what we saw were Bennett’s wallabies so I’m sorry for the mistake. I was a bit...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382259)
• Rockingham, Australia
11 Jun 18
Today when we exited the chair-lift at Cataract Gorge near Launceston, Tasmania, we spotted three little wallabies beside the path. Later on a country road we saw probably ten or twelve in the bracken on the sides of the road. We...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382259)
• Rockingham, Australia
2 Apr 18
We heard a funny story while we were at the endurance ride recently. Apparently some researchers were studying the habits of the ring-tail possum. They had attached collars to several possums. The collars contained a small radio...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382259)
• Rockingham, Australia
20 Mar 17
Rottnest Island, just off the coast of Western Australia, is famous for its colony of quokkas. These small kangaroo-like marsupials are friendly and relatively tame. This sometimes results in their ill-treatment by visitors to the...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382259)
• Rockingham, Australia
2 Nov 16
@Ronrybs commented on my last photo of a kangaroo saying he looked like all he needed was a beer and he'd be set to watch TV. So I told him I'd post about a really laid-back 'roo. This was one of five or six in a large pen at a...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382259)
• Rockingham, Australia
12 Sep 16
I saw two crows pecking at a small, dark bundle on the gravel road that leads down from the house. When I investigated I found a small, dead ring-tail possum, one of Australia's little marsupials. Apart from a couple of pecks, it...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382259)
• Rockingham, Australia
7 Sep 16
On the West Australian news a day or two ago was a story about the decimation of the quokka population in our south-west following the devastating bushfires in February 2015. The fire was started by lightning.
The fire destroyed...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382259)
• Rockingham, Australia
24 Jun 16
A bit of good news in Western Australia today. Perth Zoo's Goodfellow's tree kangaroo, Kaluli, gave birth to a male joey (Mian) six months ago but the news has only just been released now that the joey has started peeping out of...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382259)
• Rockingham, Australia
24 May 16
Did you know that wombats' faeces are cubic in shape? Rachel Lovejoy (@Raelove) wrote about pork sausage patties being too small to fill a breakfast bun nicely. And wouldn't it be nice if bacon was sold in round pieces. Which led...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382259)
• Rockingham, Australia
14 Mar 16
Anna (@LadyDuck) just commented that in Switzerland, the bear is the national symbol and at Easter you can buy chocolate bears. For a few years now, Australia has been selling chocolate bilbies. These were introduced as a...
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