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Are safe!

During a severe storm two or three weeks ago, a side fence was blown down and fell onto an area of the garden which we knew was used as a nesting area by our bob tailed lizards.

Not being sure of their fate and the fencing being too heavy to lift we just had to accept fate.

Lo and behold, yesterday there were four of them (I think that there are about six in the garden) in a patch of garden near the back of the house enjoying the afternoon sun and wanting to be fed. Chopped some tomato for them which they ate and then disappeared back to where ever.

The reason that I am uncertain as to numbers is that these are wild bobtails who seem to have taken a liking to our garden.

On a positive note, they are harmless and also love to eat snails, wich they do with a revolting crunching noise. We now have a garden which is virtually snail free.

Allan

ATTENTION all bobtails
and your friends will be sbtailsALLEN IS trying to get you into a false sense of security,he will nurture you and your friends,and then when you thought everything was ok he will pounce,you and your friends will be on the bbq before you know it,GET AWAY NOW, :-D

may one ask where you live Allan?

Ignoring Suzanne's rant :-D as they taste just like greasy chicken and their scales are difficult to take off, which is why I prefer small furry animals. Much easier to prepare :-D

Ann, we live in Western Australia, although originally from the UK. We live in a place called Australind, which is about 170 kms south of Perth

Allan

thank God - I don't want those things in my garden thank you - I'll take a hedgehog for the slugs any time

my lovely OH toured Australia coast to coast with Pendyrus Male Choir - arguably the best Wesh Choir - they were sponsored by Sydney Festival of Music and travelled coast to coast starting off in Sydney and ended up in Perth - they had a whale of a time

Have a cousin Adelaide and two in Sydney

lol Ann. Glad your OH enjoyed the tour.

Bobtails are fine and youcan actually buy them as pets, but ours have just wandered in form the wild. We used to be surrounded by bush, but housing has now encroached.

We also until a few years ago had kangaroos which used to visit and eat the grass on our front lawn. These have now disappeared.

Bobtail's sound a lot more useful than the sloworms and hedgehogs I have in my garden - I'm still innundated with slugs & snails - and, of course, morally can't use easy killing methods (like slug pellets) to remove them for fear of harming the (declining) hedgehogs and (protected) sloworms.

Walking down the path in the rain in the dark produces a ghastly crunching sound - I can't see the bl**dy snails - and sliding on a slug is very nasty!!

lol Maggie :-)

Just realised - the crushed snails aren't there in the morning - I have a sneaky feeling the hedgehogs & sloworms wait for me to crush their food for them!!

Why bother with live snails when that silly human can kill and de-shell them for you :-0

They're not daft are they. The bobtails also know just where to go so that we can see themand give them some food. :-D

But the little b**gers get all our low growing tomatoes and unprotected strawberries :-|

One of my cats has befriended a young hedgehog (last years brood) that stayed with it's mother until (I presume) she had this years brood, and the cat won't come in at night :-|

Very strange this year, all this rain and yet hardly a slug or snail in sight.

We haven't had hedgehogs in the garden for several years now..so must be the toads.

In fact the only snails I can see are up in the Laburnum..very odd
:-S

Glad the Bobtails are OK :-D

Don't strain yourself lifting that fence :-)

TO ALL POSTERS,Allan forgot to say that the reason kangaroos are not seen much around his area is because hes BBQ and eaten most of them.x :-D

Suzanne, kangaroos hardly come under the category of small furry creatures despite all the cutesy tv programmes featuring Skippy :-D

We do, however, buy kangaroo steak from the local supermarket :-P

your very behind the times there Allan,havnt watched s-Skippy the bush kangaroo since i was 6,do they still show it in aus?? :-D

Suzanne,

We are having repeats of all the old programmes. On the buses; Please Sir etc. When TV here recently went digital and we were able to access more 'free to air' channels they just showed repeats.

I'm waiting for Crossroads to start again! :-(

Oh no Allan surely not *.Crossroads * :-D Glad you ragtag & bobtails are ok
:-)

I'd forgotten that programme Barbra :-D

Dear Allan

Hello

Hope you are okay.

Be kind to your furry and lizard creatures!

I am glad the bobtails are safe.

Over here in England, going digitial was not an option as the broadcasting company turned off the analogue signal.

Lots of people bought equipment that didn't work and loads got ripped off as they tried to get aerials and other equipment for the digital switchover.

I think it was an absolute con. The TV picture still has interference and there is beggar all on it!

Complete waste of time and money and many are still without proper working TV's simply because they did not qualify for help with the digital turnover.


Take gentle care all
Very best wishes
EOS
xx

Many thanks EOS

it was the same in Western Australia, but as a family, we were fortunate that we had purchased a digital tv some time before the change over. Also our aerial which was fitted 18 years ago was able to pick up the digital signal.

The analogue service has not yet been turned off but will be soon. As in the UK there is absolutely nothing on worth watching. Also the picture frequently freezes!

We could subscribe to a Pay TV Service but are reluctant to do so

Kind Regards

Allan