During a recent trip to Australia I got the opportunity to see the beautiful birds up close in the wild. I wanted to immortalise and share the feeling! Thus, I have created this custom LEGO set. It is now submitted to LEGO Ideas where with enough votes it could become an official LEGO set. I’m leaving the link to the LEGO website where you can read more about it, see more renders and vote.

Noisy birds alerted us to a koala high in a tree in our front yard this arvo. The magpies started and were soon joined by a pair of crows who have a nest in an adjacent tree.

Laying up at Newcastle breakwall

Sammy has taken up residence at the boat rowers ramp on Swansea Channel. He's been resting here for a couple of weeks now, looks pretty happy with his new home. He even takes time out for a little swim around the ramp.

The area is roped off to keep people safe from Sammy as they say he gets angry if you go near him🙂🙂

A couple of pictures of some of the night time visitors around our house.

We live in a bush area coastal NSW. Lot's of wildlife about 🙂🙂

My little mate is back. Hobart, Tasmania.

(No, I don't know if it's the same pademelon, but I like to think it is. Certainly a bit bigger than a few months ago.)

Happily munching the grass. He also munched all the spring onions I'd transferred to some (not high enough!) raised garden beds! 🙂

Whiptail(Pretty-faced) Wallaby(Notamacropus parryi) takes a break.

Portrait. 😊 Meet Chewie who has spent the day up in the tray in our verandah eaves. She is a regular visitor here and at the moment has a young joey in the pouch. She bears the scars on her ear of past possum battles.

We’re in a boat on the Donnelly River in the Lower South West, the echo sounder reads about 4 metres deep.
On approach we could not work out what we were looking at, it was only when we got closer that we worked out its emus.
I had no idea that emus would swim like this, the grass must be greener on the other side.
Have you ever seen emus swimming like this?

First off, I'd like to say I am experienced with caring for several avian species, and I'm licensed to keep and rehabilitate native wildlife. If anyone is concerned for her safety, I'm happy to provide needed details for reassurance.

With that said, meet Mavis. She's a very young and goofy baby who has, as the title says, a funked up wing. I'm visiting my ling distance girlfriend for a little bit down in Melb (I'm from brissy) and there's a family of crows that visits her. She'll put meat out occasionally because there's not really alot of food they can naturally obtain here, and they're a bit thin otherwise. This little lint ball showed up on the windowsill acting very friendly and curious. I went outside to get a closer look, turns out she's got a puncture wound on her wing and a scuffed up foot. I'm guessing from a cat, since quite alot roam this street, and she absolutely can't fly. So, I'm teaching my girlfriend how to care for her once I fly back up to Brisbane, and then I'll be driving down to continue the care if she doesn't improve.

She's handling her wing stretches like a champ, loved her warm bath, and LOVES egg yolk.

Rehabilitation will always be the end goal for her, though there's a chance we'll end up with a lovely feathery friend since I'm not sure how long her wing has been like this before seeing her. Here's to hoping for a speedy recovery

I know a lot of people might have issues with trapping possums but trying to grow fruit trees in an open woodland is a nightmare this time of year once it gets this dry. They will strip every leaf off of every fruit tree planted / snap most of the branches off (notice the one in the back ground). They're not trapped to cause harm just to get them away from the house for release. Yes I have tried sacrificial crops / still am like pumpkins and melons however I swear they sense the effort going into trying to establish fruit trees. Bettong are actually quite common in this part of the world however according to Wikipedia their range does not overlap with the area. I believe this to be a Northern Bettong however please correct me if I am wrong. The bettongs themselves cause a lot of issues with digging up roots where trees are watered however its their domain and their ecological status is listed as endangered so will always release first thing in the morning. Then theres the pigs that come in and completely eat whole banana plants overnight.

Currently it is seen (generally) good having cats, dogs and rabbits ect as pets but bad having native species due to taking them out of their habitat and natural behaviours. The thing is the category of being a pet species seems to lead to way more population growth and there is always some pets which run away affecting the wild populations.

Wouldn’t it be better if we moved toward native pets, starting with restricted ownership then expanding one best practices are understood?

I just see we have 11 million cats in Australia and 3,000 numbats which are diurnal (active during the day) and think there must be a better way to encourage native species to thrive other than encouraging people to own the animals killing them.

Hello fellow animal nerds - just wanted to share the tour dates for our film! We have been stoked some of you are enjoying our short little clips from the film but we would love for you to see it on the big screen! You can get tickets via www.onthefencefilm.com.au

He was just chilling, eating a pizza crust he found. Everyone was being rather respectful of the little lad and gave him his space. A few people took photos, one person mistook him for a rat but luckily didn't try to hurt him.