The General Chat Thread (2025)

The builder painter found out the hard way today why we had been insisting on the flyscreen door being kept closed.

"I was only gone less than a minute, too my vehicle to get something".

Yep, that's all it took for a visitor to enter the house. Luckily it was our friendly shingleback who needed a little persuading to get back outside of the house. (This involved me picking him up at one point. ) lesson learnt! Luckily not with a snake.

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Not today's photo, but "he" navigates around the property by following the walls of various buildings and the door wasn't where he expected it to be!

So I fed him (free range chook mix) and he was happy again.
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
The builder painter found out the hard way today why we had been insisting on the flyscreen door being kept closed.

"I was only gone less than a minute, too my vehicle to get something".

Yep, that's all it took for a visitor to enter the house. Luckily it was our friendly shingleback who needed a little persuading to get back outside of the house. (This involved me picking him up at one point. ) lesson learnt! Luckily not with a snake.

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Not today's photo, but "he" navigates around the property by following the walls of various buildings and the door wasn't where he expected it to be!

So I fed him (free range chook mix) and he was happy again.
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Love it - some one who actually cares about the wild life and doesn't automatically want to kill it!!

Blue Tongue Lizard family, harmless and very friendly :)

When I lived in Darwin, before coming to the US, I always had Geckos running around the walls of my appartment/flat and Frilled Kneck Dragons walking up the street - both harmless but the dragons could get a bit nasty and would chase you if you irritated them :) The Geckos were great - they ate all the bugs - natures insect repellents :)

On the down side though, we also had a few Salt Water Crocodiles that would take a stroll up the streets from time to time. I lived one block from the sea so I saw them a lot, and they AREN'T friendly by any stroke of the imagination :)

Herbaceous said:
I walked past McDonald’s on the way to the grocery store, so I took this picture for her.
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Bah Humbug - what do you mean I'm back? I never left!!!!! :D
 
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Wombat457 said:
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On the down side though, we also had a few Salt Water Crocodiles that would take a stroll up the streets from time to time. I lived one block from the sea so I saw them a lot, and they AREN'T friendly by any stroke of the imagination :)
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I had a brief encounter with a 6' Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake and for just an instant wondered how fast they can go... 🏃‍♂️ The rule around here is if you can't see a house you let it go.

While not really aggressive they are really defensive if cornered.
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SoCalZone10 said:
One thing I like hiking in the Lake District UK is that there are no snakes, my husband said that to me but I’m not sure if it’s that true. Maybe no dangerous snakes.
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There are snakes. The UK has 4 of them, though one is really a legless lizard.

There's 3 harmless ones
  • Slow worm
  • Grass snake
  • Smooth snake
And 1 poisonous one
  • Adder/viper.
Where we lived in the south of England we saw all of them. We used to get them very frequently (as in weekly) in the garden and in the common (MOD land we lived on).

The only place without the adder is Ireland, though they are much less common in North Scotland than in south England.
 
Vipers are nasty if memory serves me correctly. We get rattlers where we are but I haven't seen one in 10 years of living here, at least not in the wild.
 
Oz has it's fair share of nasties, spiders, crocodiles, lizards, scorpions and snakes are no exception. Other than our pythons, all the others are nasty and potentially deadly. Hm, then again, so is mot of our wild life ...... :)

On the upside - you only find some of them in the townsd and cities such as copperheads, white tail spiders, black widows, redbacks etc. Oh and there are the huntsman spider that ike to sit on your sun visors so when you pull them down they drop into your lap - Great fun in peak hour traffic :D Fortunately they are only huge and complately harmless ;)

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