We have many creatures visiting our garden which is surrounded by bush. In the day it is chickens and many birds. At night there are many goings on we don’t even know about we just hear a noise or find the evidence the next day. Someone has been mysteriously pooping in our driveway – and we didn’t think it was a possum. Possum poop is a particular sort of thing. Whoever it was they were persistent and local. So I put out the camera trap. And here we are! Mystery solved.
An Eastern Quoll – and a big one! They must be living in the garden because we haven’t seen any bandicoots this year and we always have bandicoots. We thought the bandicoots moved out because of the new rescue labrador but no….
Hello
Also there is a massive slug here
Also – who or what is going on here!?!?
It is a good thing I never go outside after dark.
Don’t get Eastern Quolls in my rural backyard at Tumbling Waters NT. The last Northern Quoll here was vanquished by a cane toad (and I guess you’re looking forward to them what with climate change and weird weather hitting you). We get bandicoots but not as regularly as we used to. Getting more bird species settling in – some making fantastic nests (Green-backed Gerygones) and others laying eggs in other birds’ nest (Channel-billed Cuckoo). Night-time is never boring. Orange-footed scrubchooks yelling ‘Dog, look out’!! all around the neighbourhood. Stone Curlews screaming like banshees. The occasional dingo (real one) sniffs around the chookpen put that’s made like a Yankee prison so predators (like the olive pythons that have learnt not to eat cane toads) can’t get in. I like snakes and spiders but they have to know where not to go. We live in a rules-based world, after all, don’t we? I can’t give you a detailed description of all the native visitors we get here. That’d bore you to tears anyway but I have a great photo of the Gerygone’s nest if you’d like it. Everyone else does!
Olive pythons! sounds very exciting – and yes cane toads are very boring
Fascinating nocturnal creatures in your part of the world! On a whole different continent, I live in a wildlife rich zone with frequent nearby activity of four-legged and winged varieties, day and night. Some of the locals have wandered within the range of my remote camera. The IR is low-res, yet even so the captures have revealed the close presence of an apex predator, in the form of a mountain lion, as well as coyotes, bobcats, foxes, raccoons (members of the North American resistance), and the list goes on and on of mammals and birds too. No slugs, so far, as they tend to travel too slowly to trigger the camera.
Please stay safe should you ever be compelled to go outside at night, you never know what might be out and about.
P.S. That last photo looks quite a bit like a rat, although I don’t know if they inhabit your local environment.
mountain lions! the worst thing we get is tiger snakes – which are pretty bad i suppose – haven’t seen one at night but i am told they are about
Oh, and is that flat-looking possumie thingee, a glider- maybe a sugar or squirrel glider? Don’t get them here, either. Or slugs! Except sometimes the slugs that were meant by hoon neighbours to kill magpie geese and ducks in the shooting season. We get magpie geese sheltering in our trees in the Dry season. Love ’em! Big, clumsy-looking birds with a lot of dignity. Hate their killers! Nasty men who carve out the breasts and leave the rest to rot.
obviously a mustelid. did you know a stone Martin shut down the hadron collider? mustelids combatting planetary human eccocidal rampage. (m.c.p.h.e.r )love first Ferret
hello – no mustelids here only dasyurids
G’day First Dog, your chuditch (it’s name in the West – Noongar language – and of course ours are western quolls), is so, so exciting. You must have great bush. They are on the rare and endangered listing in WA due to the beastly fox. Did you know they can be identified by their spots pattern? I believe each individual has a unique pattern.
sorry first doggy, of course dasyurids, just assumed eccocidal humans introduced things like mongooses (mongeese?)to Taz like in Hawaii. lots of bears here in my backyard, saw a wolverine when mountain trail riding. the worst are grey squirrels (see eccocidal human import).and cougars are lovely. keep us “tooned”.love your work.
Love the pics. Especially impressed by the slug