Sunday, 14 August 2016

Unusual neighbours. Wombat and joey


The dogs, we are minding the two elderly ladies of the property up here near the caravan, have been growling and barking quite loudly at odd times day and night of late. 

There are rabbits, wallabies, foxes, echidnas, ( there was an echidna on the hill  on Monday) birds and of course sheep wandering the farm. So I guess there are plenty of things to bark at if they get too close. I'm sure the local foxes get a kick out of standing just out of reach.

However the girls are  pretty good about letting us sleep and are usually tucked up  their kennels out of the cold at night. The barking was getting a bit annoying and K had been out with the torch trying to find out just what was spooking the ladies to no avail.

Just before sunset Thursday K called me out to see who had been upsetting the dogs. We knew we had a wombat that liked to spend away warm days in the blackberry bushes behind us, but had no idea it had company.


  There she was out munching with her joey, ignoring the dogs who were going off properly, and pretty much ignoring us too.

She marched up the hill. The joey hesitated then ran up to mum. I managed to get close enough to grab some shots then the little one took fright and thundered back into the blackberries.  Mother wandered back too and then we heard them thumping along the path they have carved out among the blackberry bushes. Good thing they have thick hides.

So now we know what is causing  the current spate of   growls at night. Now we just have to sleep through it.

Joys of country life....

Cheers Sue

A Ferg on the Move.

4 comments:

  1. Cute story.
    Are you allowed to have blackberry growing there? In some places it is a noxious weed.

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  2. They have to be controlled. Pretty big job. But nice fruit in the autumn in the patches that are still there.

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