danniieeb
Hatching
- Feb 7, 2015
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Around the late seventies I purchased my first acreage just outside Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Just an acre but for me Wow
Their was an old wooden house made of iron bark, you could not bang a nail in this wood you had to drill.
At the bottom of the block was a small dam that was overgrown but the water was clean and some wild ducks lived their.
My first need was to have a new 2 car garage built, to replace the ramshackle wooden one that was decaying while you watched it.
Part of the garage would be my workshop.
One Sunday I started to dismantle it and was taking all of the wood down by the side of the dam (really out of sight) and my trip down to the dam
would have me running over a large piece of roofing materiel slowly rusting under a large gum tree.
We found a nest of pink baby rats in the garage so my late wife suggested we give them to the ducks, I laughed but we took them to the dam.
I was amazed by the ducks who started to fight each other for the rats.
After lunch we continued our work only for me getting more concerned about the rusty tin, my wife who was raised in the country suggested we lift it up.
I dutifully agreed and was just about to put my hands under and lift when she "no, not like that, with a stick" imagine this city boys face when lifting gently
to reveal a large Death Adder under, down came the metal and I was on the patio in record time.
The next day all the ducks were outside the house quacking with my better half feeding them and I suppose it was then I began to fall in love with all kinds
of birds.
that was nearly fourty years ago and I had my fair share of different snakes on other properties but that's the one I remember well
Now I live in the Philippines and still have snakes the most common on our block is The Philippine Cobra so even though we have no chickens here yet we have placed a large sign
"Beware of the Snake"
I am sure that many members have similar experiences, would love to hear about them.
A city boy with lots of snake experiences
danniieeboy
Just an acre but for me Wow
Their was an old wooden house made of iron bark, you could not bang a nail in this wood you had to drill.
At the bottom of the block was a small dam that was overgrown but the water was clean and some wild ducks lived their.
My first need was to have a new 2 car garage built, to replace the ramshackle wooden one that was decaying while you watched it.
Part of the garage would be my workshop.
One Sunday I started to dismantle it and was taking all of the wood down by the side of the dam (really out of sight) and my trip down to the dam
would have me running over a large piece of roofing materiel slowly rusting under a large gum tree.
We found a nest of pink baby rats in the garage so my late wife suggested we give them to the ducks, I laughed but we took them to the dam.
I was amazed by the ducks who started to fight each other for the rats.
After lunch we continued our work only for me getting more concerned about the rusty tin, my wife who was raised in the country suggested we lift it up.
I dutifully agreed and was just about to put my hands under and lift when she "no, not like that, with a stick" imagine this city boys face when lifting gently
to reveal a large Death Adder under, down came the metal and I was on the patio in record time.
The next day all the ducks were outside the house quacking with my better half feeding them and I suppose it was then I began to fall in love with all kinds
of birds.
that was nearly fourty years ago and I had my fair share of different snakes on other properties but that's the one I remember well
Now I live in the Philippines and still have snakes the most common on our block is The Philippine Cobra so even though we have no chickens here yet we have placed a large sign
"Beware of the Snake"
I am sure that many members have similar experiences, would love to hear about them.
A city boy with lots of snake experiences
danniieeboy
We have a very large black snake who lives under our house. I was not aware of this until the cable guy came to install cable. He went under the house and came out in record time.
