Sssshhhh....I'm hunting Bandicoot - out the back of a Semi-local fast food restaurant...

We used to have lots of them in our backyards and local parks where I grew up in Sydney (in Howard's former Bennelongland) - but they were mostly killed-off or driven out by domestic pets...

I hear that they've been having somewhat of a resurgence in parts of Sydney and environs over the past few years...

A couple of years ago, I discovered one? which hung out near the waiting bay of a Maccas on the Central Coast - collecting food scraps in short and quick dashes out from a landscaped garden bed. I saw it on several occasions over a period of months - then not again until I've recently seen some more around here...in 3 different spots in the same large carpark...

They're quite cute and it's nice to know that they're making a comeback!

I hope that this little colony of Bandicoots are not gonna be baited and killed off by accident - as there's been a growing rabbit colony hanging about in the evenings in the grassed area of the adjacent carpark...until very recently...

Equitist wrote on Aug 19^th, 2011 at 5:06pm:

Sssshhhh....I'm hunting Bandicoot - out the back of a Semi-local fast food restaurant... We used to have lots of them in our backyards and local parks where I grew up in Sydney (in Howard's former Bennelongland) - but they were mostly killed-off or driven out by domestic pets... I hear that they've been having somewhat of a resurgence in parts of Sydney and environs over the past few years... A couple of years ago, I discovered one? which hung out near the waiting bay of a Maccas on the Central Coast - collecting food scraps in short and quick dashes out from a landscaped garden bed. I saw it on several occasions over a period of months - then not again until I've recently seen some more around here...in 3 different spots in the same large carpark... They're quite cute and it's nice to know that they're making a comeback! I hope that this little colony of Bandicoots are not gonna be baited and killed off by accident - as there's been a growing rabbit colony hanging about in the evenings in the grassed area of the adjacent carpark...until very recently...

Saw a Kookaburra the other day: two infact!

Hadn't seen one for )*&'n years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  :-? ::) :-?

I do hope you are joking - especially if you live outside a metropolitan area!

Where I live, I rarely go more than a day without seeing at least one Kookaburra - in my backyard!

;-)

Equitist wrote on Aug 19^th, 2011 at 7:24pm:

I do hope you are joking - especially if you live outside a metropolitan area! Where I live, I rarely go more than a day without seeing at least one Kookaburra - in my backyard! ;-)

Nup, this was not even 5 kms from Perth City: haven't seen any for atleast a decade... the two I saw the other day with Dad were small but Kookaburras atleast!

They're small birds i s'pose but I haven't seen one for so long: I DID REMARK THEY WERE SAMLL THO!!!