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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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Yum!!

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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A video clip of our pregnant quenda. It won't be long now!

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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Another quenda to admire

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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Another visit from a quenda

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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A quenda came to dinner

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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The disappearing end of a quenda

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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Glow-in-the-dark mammals

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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Out my window this morning - an antechinus

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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Another of Australia's endemic marsupials - the wombat

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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My last post wasn't a pademelon but a Bennett's wallaby (sad, embarrassed face)

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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Tasmania's cute little pademelons

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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Don't steal pythons

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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Don't Mess with our Quokkas

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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Are you sure you're comfortable?

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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Not the photo I wanted - Ringtail Possum

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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Bushfires have killed off many of West Australia's quokkas

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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Baby Tree-Kangaroo for Perth Zoo, Western Australia,

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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Did you know - Wombats excrete square faeces

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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Chocolate Bilbies for Easter

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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