Yep, there are heartless bastards out there unfortunately.
We stopped the other day for a beautiful pheasant coucal to cross the road. We put the hazard lights on as a warning. An idiot races up behind us, blasts his horn & tears around us narrowly missing the bird. He pulled into a house building site just up the road so there was no excuse for the impatience or lack of care for the bird - he was just an ■■■■■■■■.
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Touch of deja vu from a few weeks back but with a family of ducks. Slowed up and pumped the lights for oncoming traffic on a 60 k local road but the ahole behind me swerved round at about 85 and barely missed them, and gave me the finger on the way past for having the temerity to attempt to protect wildlife. Funnily enough it was a ute.
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got a thirst that it just can’t quench
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daft creature!
don’t know why but it made me think of the nom nom cat!
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ha - they can be odd creatures
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Sitting here with two sleepy dogs who sparked up the moment they heard that voice.
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Approx 35 juvenile coastal carpet pythons hatched from a clutch of eggs I removed from a house with the mother a few weeks back.
Now safely released up the scrub
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A house 
? hopefully outside of house not inside.
It was under their front verandah
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mmmm stir fry
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GOT ‘IM, YES, WHAT A CATCH!
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Refreshing to see a magpie that’s not a racist.
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Strange to have carpet outside?
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Good, different.
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Well, I’m learning apparently, and in my 7th decade too. Two days ago I stood back and watched as the local koala, “our girl” as my better half has labelled her, who has featured regularly on this thread, was tormented by the local koala “expert” who was checking to see if she was suffering from chlamydia. All happened in the reserve outside our back gate. I had mentioned to a fellow koala tragic that she had been looking unwell lately and had a brownish backside and this “do gooder”, who is actually a wonderful person and a wildlife warrior, had contacted the local “expert” who told her to tell her if the koala was in a smaller tree. “Our girl” duly turned up in a small ash tree in the reserve the following day, the first time I’ve seen her in this particular tree, was spotted by the “do gooder” who informed the “expert” who turned up with a ladder 15 minutes later. After a Keystone cop like scene where the “expert” tapped “our girl” with a stick while nearly falling, trying to coax her down, the expert gave up and said she is free of chlamydia because she would have smelt it and called an end to the torment. Fortunately I didn’t suffer a stroke, but it was close. I told the “do godder”, through clenched teeth, “Won’t be seeing “our girl” for a while” and as usual I was wrong.
Reappeared today, once more in a low tree position, just as a local tradie with a fuuucking tennis ball appeared with his dog for a run in the reserve. Now my first instinct is to yell and swear at the tradie for failing to recognise that dogs are the second greatest threats to koalas, after humans of course, but after counting to ten and taking deep breaths I approached said tradie, as I would a rabid animal, and quietly explained the situation, and the imminent threat if “our girl” hit the ground and even said I’ll show where she is if you like, with a strained but quiet voice. He said “yeah” to my surprise and even brought his work mates over. Dog didn’t reappear and I didn’t threaten someone who could beat me to a pulp, because one thing I can’t do is fight.
PS Worried about her though despite the “expert’s” verdict. She doesn’t seem right.
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she’s awesome. well done, you’re a great protector. 
i’m currently listening to a boobook owl that’s somewhere out the back. very peaceful.
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Good on you for monitoring “your girl” & caring so much about her. Hopefully that will be the end of her stress for a good while.
You’re very lucky to share your habitat with a beautiful koala.
I also have a resident owl who I often hear at night. It’s a powerful owl. It is very peaceful to lay in bed & listen to the woo hoo.
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