permaculture

["April Sampson-Kelly" <askpv@ozemail.com.au>]

I am so excited -

yesterday an echidna came to call!!

i only happened to find him because he knocked over a commercial-style worm farm with silly dainty legs.

and unfortunately much of the rare seeds i am propagating for seed savers came down too.

lucky for the echidna he didn't get injured.

i had to sit and watch for a good half hour to make sure he was fit to wander off.

he was the size of a half soccerball with small fury legs like a toy elephant.

his nose, when he finally looked about, was black, long and tapered and his eyes small dark and blinking.

i think the recent dry spell has brought him out - it was whether like this that we first saw the brush turkey - which has now gone off to find a mate i think - there were no feathers to indicate his capture, just a sudden absence which is good

as he had a wicked taste for hens eggs!!  hope he is protected of his own eggs (the brush turkey male raises the eggs). 

it special surprises like this that make it all worthwhile.  if it wasn't for my permaculture work i wouldn't be out in the garden

for hours and nor would my children.

and if wasn't for permaculture i wouldn't have had a garden sympathetic to native animals and 

wouldn't be honing my observation skills. 

April

 

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