#bushlife — Public Fediverse posts
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Moments after this shot, the goshawk flew off with the body of its prey dangling—a brown cuckoo-dove. No pic, it waited till my phone was in my pocket & I'd started to turn away. 🤣
I've seen a few goshawks hunting brown cuckoo-doves—they seem to find them tasty, or other birds are better at escaping.
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New hat. Legit going to be able to pass as a local now.
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HR burns in the national park next door and no meaningful wind = stinky smoke everywhere and high particulates. Yay.
Hoping for a little wind today.
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Spending a couple of days in Camden on Sydney’s rural outskirts for Dairy NSW board meetings and meetings with NSW farmers.
As cities overtake these formerly separate towns, and they transform into semirural exurbs, you wonder what they become as pressure to be more city than country increases.
The hotel we’re at is clearly a community, social, and business hub and is busy every day. It obviously performs an important role here.
As a former city person, the cycle of rural life, the very significant effects felt because of political disconnect and geopolitical instability, the “vibe” of rural towns, and the gap in culture between city and country is something I still feel very clearly; I urge my city friends to ask their country family, friends, and acquaintances how they’re doing and what lies topmost in their concerns, because they’re very different to those in the city. -
It's fallow deer breeding season on our place, and they're keen for a punch up. Unfortunately for the big chocolate fellow here, his day ended early as part of our conservation and control efforts.
Older animals need to be taken out of the gene pool so that younger animals get opportunities to breed, and as they are an invasive species, we need to put some effort into control and reduction in numbers.
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First blue sky in two weeks. Everything is mud…
#farming #dairyfarming #agriculture #bushlife -
A 30cm skink just now.
Cropped from a larger max resolution image, so you can zoom in for lots of detail—not too far, it's only a resaved phone pic!
I get lots of skinks, typically only ~10-15cm long—as you can see, they get bigger. We also get blue & pink tongues, which are longer & much wider skinks.
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Not expecting anything, but just in case. My fireground pack ready to go.
PS RFS-issued firefighter boots are the most uncomfortable thing I’ve ever worn.
#bushlife #bushfires #RFS -
Hurrah! Xmas swamp wallaby! 😁
They're regular, but rarely seen, visitors to my backyard. I know they visit, because I can see the garden's been chomped & fertilised...
What a great place to live.
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"Well there's a horrible farty smell in here, and it's definitely not from my bottom" Rik Mayall - The Young Ones
Nope, but on one of the hottest days of summer so far, I can smell something "having a very long sleep" in my stairwell wall. Of course, not anywhere I can get to. I guess I'll be enjoying its malodorous waft until Xmas... 😭🤢 Aah, rats... (boom-tish)
Hurrah!
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Oil-based paint (and subsequent cleanup) is a scourge. I blame the previous owners for never having done the work to preserve the great number of wood finishes in this place. Worst timeline.
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The two brown-grey fallow deer does here look like they’re about ready to drop fawns. It’s that time of the year.
They don’t belong here, as they’re introduced (nearly 200 years ago), but they’re here now, so managing them becomes a priority.
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Just normal rural road things when the farm is on both sides or the road.
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Echidna says no! I tried getting it to move but it’s just grabbed on to the concrete edges.
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There's always food available here.
A #rosella eating an Australian native, but not local, #grevillea gaudichaudi flower. A ground cover that umm, covers ground for around 2-5m. Lots of flowers.
Rosellas also eat the grass seeds.
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Let’s goooooooo!
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Found in this morning’s firewood splitting chore. Not hungry right now, though.
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Just now when I opened our lounge room curtains. A BIG sambar stag not more than 30m from the house. He's easily over 200kg and probably 150cm at the shoulder.
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Not native, but visiting anyway, this sambar (Rusa unicolor) hind has a fawn nearby as well.
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This is an interesting piece, and expresses a view I have strong agreement with. City people often have little to no understanding of what it’s like to live in a rural area, or the issues that affect rural people. Equally, rural people often have little clue about what life is like in a city. As a city-raised person who has tree-changed to a life in the bush and working in agriculture, I feel like I have a useful perspective on both.
These factors are significant on a social and political level. Some examples that my city friends might have less insight to:
- despite being a Green politically and socially, I very much understand why hunting is a part of rural life and the value it can provide as a conservation measure
- I also get why the timber industry fights to retain access to old growth forest, despite there being viable alternatives and my deep opposition to continued old growth harvesting
- being a farm worker, I obviously understand where our food comes from, and the conditions and activities required to get that food to supermarket shelvesI feel like I have a job to do to help bridge this divide in both directions. Maybe I can be that? Maybe I can answer questions here (because screw Insta and Facebook and the rest of algorithm-driven corporate social media) that help build understanding?
In the interests of that, AMA!
#bushlife #farming #rurallife #treeChange
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jun/01/crossing-the-city-country-divide-how-do-australian-farmers-advocate-for-their-industry-in-an-urbanised-world -
Looks like a good crop coming in!
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When we moved to our place here in the bush, there were mice, rats, and rabbits all in clusters near the house. Our working cat removed that problem over about 8 months. Now, she's a bit older and sleeps most of the time.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-15/working-cats-deserve-tax-deductible-status/105051628
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Doing the atmospheric theming thing at the dairy this morning.
#bushlife #farming #nofilter #BegaValley -
20mm rain yesterday. That’s a start to bringing the green back and filling the tanks, dams, and rivers. To get back to where it needs to be, we need that much rain every week from now to the new year.
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An elevated view looking north from our place. In the right-centre of picture, far distant, you can see Gulaga, the mother mountain of the Yuin people.
Tomorrow, we are likely to see our first high fire danger of the season, with temperatures over 30C and northerly winds.
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Now to tidy up and stack this…
This large limb fell from a coastal grey box (Eucalyptus bosistoana) across our fire road a few weeks ago. Got to tidy it up today into firewood-length rounds that will go to the pile near our front gate to dry for the next 18-24 months.
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Now to tidy up and stack this…
This large limb fell from a coastal grey box (Eucalyptus bosistoana) across our fire road a few weeks ago. Got to tidy it up today into firewood-length rounds that will go to the pile near our front gate to dry for the next 18-24 months.
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Now to tidy up and stack this…
This large limb fell from a coastal grey box (Eucalyptus bosistoana) across our fire road a few weeks ago. Got to tidy it up today into firewood-length rounds that will go to the pile near our front gate to dry for the next 18-24 months.
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Now to tidy up and stack this…
This large limb fell from a coastal grey box (Eucalyptus bosistoana) across our fire road a few weeks ago. Got to tidy it up today into firewood-length rounds that will go to the pile near our front gate to dry for the next 18-24 months.
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Now to tidy up and stack this…
This large limb fell from a coastal grey box (Eucalyptus bosistoana) across our fire road a few weeks ago. Got to tidy it up today into firewood-length rounds that will go to the pile near our front gate to dry for the next 18-24 months.
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It’s the middle of Spring and the nights are getting warmer, so we won’t need much more firewood.
What we do need is some rain. The house tanks are at about 50 percent, which is normal for the end of winter (60,000 litres plus a 30,000 litre firefighting reserve when they’re full). The guest cottage tanks are about the same (20,000 litres for each cottage and a 20,000 litre catch tank at Bracken Cottage).
We need about 150mm of rain between now and Christmas to fill everything up and then consistent rain through to early Autumn (March) to keep everything topped up and give us the necessary reserves to last through to this time next year. The Bureau is forecasting a damp late Spring and Summer, but it hasn’t shown itself yet. #bushlife #rain #begavalley #australia
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Warm day today = goannas
This joker was standing on my drive as I arrived home from work and went up the tree as I got closer.
This particular one would have been a little under 150cm (5’), but we definitely have bigger ones on the property. -
The rock lilies (Dendrobium speciosum) for which our property is named are in flower. These are on the boundary between our place and the neighbour.
#BrogoVineForest #BushLife #RockLily #DendrobiumSpeciosum #BegaValley -
The rainbow lorikeets have been putting on a H rated display today (for hanky panky). Lots of crazy eyes (pupils get small, eyes are almost completely crazy orange), dancing, nibbling, grooming, getting rebuffed, and eventually getting a leg over.
One tried for a second round, but was instead very strongly rebuffed. He didn't learn... 😂
[lorikeet porn redacted]
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Feeding time apparently. I count 22 crimson rosellas and 3 satin bowerbirds.
#bushlife #CrimsonRosella #SatinBowerbird #BirdsOfMastodon #birds -
Walked out to split some firewood and little mate here is nibbling away near the edge of the garden.
#bushlife #RedNeckedWallaby #MacropodsOfMastodon -
Walked out to split some firewood and little mate here is nibbling away near the edge of the garden.
#bushlife #RedNeckedWallaby #MacropodsOfMastodon -
Walked out to split some firewood and little mate here is nibbling away near the edge of the garden.
#bushlife #RedNeckedWallaby #MacropodsOfMastodon -
Walked out to split some firewood and little mate here is nibbling away near the edge of the garden.
#bushlife #RedNeckedWallaby #MacropodsOfMastodon -
Walked out to split some firewood and little mate here is nibbling away near the edge of the garden.
#bushlife #RedNeckedWallaby #MacropodsOfMastodon -
Visitors at Mountain Cottage yesterday while we were cleaning. A total of 3 grey kangaroos (Macropus giganteus) and one red-necked wallaby (Macropus rufogriseus). #bushlife #macropods #GreyKangaroo #MacropusGiganteus #RedNeckedWallaby #MacropusRufogriseus
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Visitors at Mountain Cottage yesterday while we were cleaning. A total of 3 grey kangaroos (Macropus giganteus) and one red-necked wallaby (Macropus rufogriseus). #bushlife #macropods #GreyKangaroo #MacropusGiganteus #RedNeckedWallaby #MacropusRufogriseus
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Visitors at Mountain Cottage yesterday while we were cleaning. A total of 3 grey kangaroos (Macropus giganteus) and one red-necked wallaby (Macropus rufogriseus). #bushlife #macropods #GreyKangaroo #MacropusGiganteus #RedNeckedWallaby #MacropusRufogriseus
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Visitors at Mountain Cottage yesterday while we were cleaning. A total of 3 grey kangaroos (Macropus giganteus) and one red-necked wallaby (Macropus rufogriseus). #bushlife #macropods #GreyKangaroo #MacropusGiganteus #RedNeckedWallaby #MacropusRufogriseus
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Visitors at Mountain Cottage yesterday while we were cleaning. A total of 3 grey kangaroos (Macropus giganteus) and one red-necked wallaby (Macropus rufogriseus). #bushlife #macropods #GreyKangaroo #MacropusGiganteus #RedNeckedWallaby #MacropusRufogriseus