Critters and wildlife in your area - post your pics
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jazzies mum
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Sort of, but they are a monotreme, which means they lay eggs! These hatch and are then fed with milk like a mammal. Really weird creatures and the only other monotreme in the world is our platypus. Now that is not just a weird egg laying mammal, they are also really weird looking!
What is a monotreme?
jazzies mum
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@Gelcoater You beat me to it! 
Ha! I said that out loud when I read his reply! We have moles and gophers here. And I am always catching them. Sorry. They got to go.It’s no mole, it’s a rat!
Oh, I think I was interpreting its left front leg as a snout.
I just went with my son and his family to Brookfield Zoo about a month ago. It's only the second time I've been there since a child I think! And I remember those when we went into the house of australia! Here's a picture I took along with the kookaburra bird!Jazz woke me up in the small hours yelling her head off and needing to "go see to it!" I fully expected to find she was alerting to a huge snake of some sort.............but, no. There were two echidnas mating alongside a corrugated iron wall. Must have been making too much noise for her!View attachment 127774
They are nose to nose here trying to dig down for safety.
Moles don't have that long tail.
It could be looking at the fuzz.
Maybe but I thought it looked like that first picture under the wing.
It could be a nestling at this time of year. They're sort of fuzzy like that as they're getting their adult feathers.
LifeofRubie
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I thought we were going to make it through summer without a bunny nest in our yard but no such luck. Rubie found some babies in the veggie garden. She was on a leash in the yard for about a week after she got a hold of the first one.
She did get this bunny a day or two after this... I figured they were big enough to sort out scooting through fences to safety but guess not. 1/3 of them made it to outside our yard!
She did get this bunny a day or two after this... I figured they were big enough to sort out scooting through fences to safety but guess not. 1/3 of them made it to outside our yard!
LifeofRubie
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Ours took a while to be frequent visitors this year it seems but now you can't not see them if you're outside for 5 minutes! They are my favourite!
Oh, that had to be difficult. So tempting for a dog. We've had our share of rabbits this year but I've yet to see a nest or babies. Probably are here and I'm oblivious to them! LOL The only sightings I see are the ones that Kali alerts me to and the destruction of some plants! If Kali is barking at one outside that I can see, I will actually let her chase it (with an e-collar on) because I doubt she would ever catch it. I remember Buddy chasing one and I watched in horror as I thought he would catch it. But they zigzag so much that he lost it even though he was hot on their tail! There is an area that my husband cleared just going into our woods and he's been putting 'leftovers' of plants that we split or wanted to reduce the size of in our gardens. We find it hard to find throw things away!
LOL so he has put these 'extras' in this little garden like irises, hosta plant and the like. The other day he told me a rabbit chewed down some of them! It's kind of behind our wood pile that's stacked so not something we can easily see from the house. As far as I'm concerned if they chew on that and leave the rest of my stuff around the house alone I'm okay with that. 
Here too. Sitting on our back deck we'll usually see one on our flowers. I took this one picture which of course didn't come out well but I thought it was cool because it looked like an angel.
lol
LifeofRubie
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Oh, that had to be difficult. So tempting for a dog. We've had our share of rabbits this year but I've yet to see a nest or babies. Probably are here and I'm oblivious to them! LOL The only sightings I see are the ones that Kali alerts me to and the destruction of some plants! If Kali is barking at one outside that I can see, I will actually let her chase it (with an e-collar on) because I doubt she would ever catch it. I remember Buddy chasing one and I watched in horror as I thought he would catch it. But they zigzag so much that he lost it even though he was hot on their tail! There is an area that my husband cleared just going into our woods and he's been putting 'leftovers' of plants that we split or wanted to reduce the size of in our gardens. We find it hard to find throw things away!
UGH the bunnies are eating EVERYTHING in our yard! Hostas, phlox, my hens and chicks. Just total destruction!
