We seem to have a wide variety of creatures living around our place!  Here is what we have seen in the last 2 days.

Marbled Gecko

He was on the wall of our verandah when I was heading out the door I spotted him.  He was almost translucent and was a little tricky to identify.  According to our description they only appear translucent this at night time.  During the day they should have a strong marbled colour.  I think he was just trying to camoflage with our brickwork.

Laughing Kookaburra

(Sorry about the quality of the pic.  I took it through the back door so as not to disturb our new residents.)

 A family of Kookaburras has moved into our backyard.  There is Mum, Dad and bub.  They have been teaching bub how to catch worms and other bugs in our yard.  They visit morning and night and are enjoying having some freshly turned earth (where the tree used to be) to hunt.

Geometridae Fence Grey Geometer Moth

Ethany helped me to identify this one from our guide.  We were undecided on which moth it was, a couple appear very similar in our book.  The key was the small black vertical stripes on the wings.

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Since we moved into this house we have been undertaking a massive project!  The removal of a very large tree from our backyard, so that we actually have a yard, lol.  The tree was taking up the entire yard, i kid you not.

Whilst cutting down the monster we came across this little guy.

He is a South-western Spiny-tailed Gecko.

According to my Guide to Wildlife he is a subspecies variety as the markings on his back are not as strong as the true South-western Spiny-tail.  They can grow up to 13cm and are arboreal.  Our guy was about full size.

He was a very friendly little guy.  I picked him up to show the kids and he happily sat on my hand then licked his eye to get a better look at us.  I popped him in a container so the kids could get a better look at his spines before we popped him back on the tree, where we found him. 

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