Plenty of Wildlife in Pullenvale

We have been quite surprised by the different types of fauna we have seen in our first week.

On our first night together we were greeted by what we believe to be an Agile Wallaby (Macropus agilis) which was feeding in our next door neighbours yard, the next day we found fresh droppings to indicate that they came in for a feed in our backyard. Charlie found them (the droppings) to be tasty but I am not sure of the nutritional value of Wallaby poo!

Whilst looking about Sunday night we also discovered that our yard was infested with Cane Toads (Rhinella marina), I then spent the next few nights getting rid of any I could find, so far I have exterminated 25 of the nasty creatures. They will continue to come in and I will continue to cull them so our wonder dog Charlie doesn't try to eat one. The Cane Toads we have are much lighter in colour than the one in this photo, but just as ugly. The biggest one I have seen was around the size of a softball, but they can get quite large, apparently the largest recorded weighed in at 2.65kg.

We stumbled across a couple of Common Green Tree frogs (Litoria caerulea) while hunting cane toads, they were quite big and quite beautiful in comparison to the horrid Cane Toad.

Yesterday coming home from the supermarket we very nearly collided with a full grown Red Deer doe (Cervus elaphus) it was just two doors down from our place and was running through one of the wildlife corridors and across the road, it had been disturbed near the Pullen Pullen Creek and was making for higher ground. Can't wait for a stag to come and visit!

Last night while out hunting Cane Toads Emily and I saw what at first glance appeared to be a Bush Rat eating the fallen Mangos from our trees. Later when Karren and I investigated further, it became apparent that the little creature was too big to be a Bush Rat and was (we believe) a Long Nosed Bandicoot (Perameles nasuta). Tonight I hope to get out with my camera and try to catch a decent photo of the little critter so we can better identify it.

We are all excited by the abundance of wildlife and we can't wait to see what pops up next.