Australian wildlife (except birds)

[Lyn2011]

On the old POTN I started this thread, but I think there is a similar one on POTN. If so I'm happy to convert or delete this one when the other owner prefers that.

 

[West Coast Birder]

Sweet. How long do the joeys hang out with mother before they are sent packing?

 

[Avondale87]

On the old POTN I started this thread, but I think there is a similar one on POTN. If so I'm happy to convert or delete this one when the other owner prefers that.

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Yes. Lovely and touching photo Lyn

If you're referring to this https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=1498076 then don't be concerned on my behalf.
Anyway you got in first here.

My thread was probably made in ignorance of the other.
Let the thread continue and thrive

 

[Avondale87]

Testing image insertion.

Bennett's wallaby

 

[Avondale87]

Tasmanian Tiger snake at our place a couple of years past.
Haven't seen any yet

 

[pcs]

Tasmanian Tiger snake at our place a couple of years past.
Haven't seen any yet

Highly venomous it seems so be glad

 

[Avondale87]

Highly venomous it seems so be glad

They are
Wife doesn't like them one bit
We agree on most things but not here

 

[Lyn2011]

@ West Coast Birder

A joey leaves the pouche at 10 months and stays about 18 months with his mother
(I didn't know how to "quote" but later I saw how it works)

 

[Lyn2011]

Yes. Lovely and touching photo Lyn

If you're referring to this https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=1498076 then don't be concerned on my behalf.
Anyway you got in first here.

My thread was probably made in ignorance of the other.
Let the thread continue and thrive

Thanks Richard, is there already a thread Australian Birds? I leave that one for you, you have always the lovely wrens. This wallaby is cute.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

(I didn't know how to "quote" but later I saw how it works)

Lyn, if you do the @ thing, make sure to not put a space between it and the username. Like so: @Lyn2011

Good thread!

 

[Avondale87]

Thanks Richard, is there already a thread Australian Birds? I leave that one for you, you have always the lovely wrens. This wallaby is cute.

Thanks Lyn
Yes, there's an Aussie birds thread.
I'm having a few battles with images double posting
Not sure what I'm doing wrong

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

@Avondale87
Richard, are you uploading from your pc/Mac?
If so, just use the little image icon in the menu of the text exitor and the full image should load automatically. Don't click on the thumbnail you will see, where it says "insert". You do that and it will show up twice.

Alternatively you can also just drag an image from your desktop into the text exitor without clicking any buttons. Try it, it's pretty cool.

 

[Avondale87]

@Avondale87
Richard, are you uploading from your pc/Mac?
If so, just use the little image icon in the menu of the text exitor and the full image should load automatically. Don't click on the thumbnail you will see, where it says "insert". You do that and it will show up twice.

Alternatively you can also just drag an image from your desktop into the text exitor without clicking any buttons. Try it, it's pretty cool.

Thanks Levina
I did wonder. Giving it a try
Yay! It worked

Echidna

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

@Avondale Cool!!
We may have lost some functionality from AMASS, but we also gained some new here. I love the drag and drop option. And you can adjust the size. Did you see?

 

[Avondale87]

@Avondale Cool!!
We may have lost some functionality from AMASS, but we also gained some new here. I love the drag and drop option. And you can adjust the size. Did you see?

Thanks Levina
Yes there's a bit more functionality I've noticed.
No didn't notice size adjustment, thanks
The last few posts with images have been from my tablet.
I'll have to get serious with my laptop

 

[Avondale87]

Here's a selection of echidna posted over yonder
I'm heading back to the scrub (backblocks, bush, hinterland) next week so hopefully see more

 

[Avondale87]

Bit more Australiana, except pure Tasmanian Devil, endemic to here

Devils mate once a year. The female will give birth to more than 20 rice-grain sized young, but given she has only four teats only a few will survive. Being a marsupial, the teats are in the female’s pouch, where she suckles the young for four months.

She then carries them on her back for another few months, and they’re fully grown at nine months. Tasmanian Devils can live five to eight years, though in the wild it's rare to find any older than three or four years.

They make a heck of a din, and at night it can be quite alarming if not accustomed to what on earth it is

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[Avondale87]

As a follow-up to this Devil's were once plentiful and when bush walking were highly inquisitive.
A storey from my earlier years

An old scanned slide from my Pentax ME Super days.
Walls of Jerusalem, Tasmania

My second daughter would accompany me on many trips to the highlands.
The Walls as they are affectionately known are a magnificent collection of mountains surrounding a smallish plain.
They were the days when wildlife was still prolific, and before the Tasmanian Devil tumour disease took hold.
You'd always protect your gear at night.
Tie your boots to the tent pole with the laces, weigh down food containers.
One night I woke to grunting and grabbed my boots disappearing out the tent. They had been tied to the poles.
Then went to sleep.
Next day greeted with this.
A Tasmanian Devil had pulled the pack outside and bitten through the side of the pack and the rest is evident.
The insurance paid for the repairs and the report was quite amusing.
I've still got that pack.

 

[Lyn2011]

Lyn, if you do the @ thing, make sure to not put a space between it and the username. Like so: @Lyn2011

Good thread!

Thanks Levina, still experimenting

 

[West Coast Birder]

Great photos of the Tasmanian Devils, Richard! I remember reading somewhere that some kind of disease was decimating their numbers. Is that still happening?