Our great southern migration

Apparently June 7 was the day the wombats came out to play! These marsupials are generally noctornal and might be seen at dusk but not in broad daylight. However, on the Kings Birthday weekend, we saw several out during the day on Sunday.  The one above was in the middle of the paddock.  Most wombats are not quite as red. He/she seems to be struggling to keep their eyes open! Scott saw this one in the scrub the makes the south border of our property. While he has been "hissed" at by wombats that felt he was too close, this one didn't seem to care.  Finally, this brown lump by the gate is one of older wombats. We do often see him sitting by his den when we come back after RFS (rural fire service) training. But on June 7, he dragged himself out to join the party! Since June 7, the wombats have not been nearly as visible. Not sure if this is a monthly, annual, or other event! Besides watching the wombats, we have been working on fencing. We need to fence off the septic field...

  Solar panels were added to the roof of the shed and two batteries added inside the shed so that we could store that power. Now we want battery power to last from sun up to sun up; however, since winter is here and it has been cloudy, we haven't always made it that far.  Both sides of the shed have the panels and we are glad we added the extra to give us a winter bump.  We have been identifying the main power drains -the heater I have in our bathroom, for starters. It is a big room with a cold floor so I put the heater on a timer and had it heating morning and evening.  Big energy suck. I still use it, but more on an "as needed" basis! It is probably not that bad but much worse than the lights and TV. The toaster and hot water heater are also high energy. I try not to look too often but the app is really cool: You can see the energy coming in through solar (nada, it is dark out), and what we are using. This shows our battery is almost full (the yellow boxes on the b...

  I was going to use this title for the Barrabaroo Landcare meeting as we did go over the river but could have gone through the woods behind our place. The Landcare group encompasses both sides of Barrabaroo Creek/ Narira creek. We live on the east side and have the creek as a border on about 1/2 of the property. We attended a pizza party on the other side of the creek and over the hill behind our place. Mostly still wild scrub but it does have a fence line and power lines. Scott has been spending a lot of time back there watching for the elusive lyrebird (see previous post ).  This time we stopped on our way back from Potato Point. We are hoping to buy an EV car relatively soon and there was an EV expo at the weekly market in Moruya. We went to the Potato Point house last night. I went for a walk in the old stomping grounds while Scott made a lovely lamb roast dinner. We spent the night and then went to the expo today. There are many more manufacturers here than I am used to;...

  This guy is as close as we get to a Pooh bear story and it probably isn't our wombat. Our neighbor took this picture. Amazing that it was that close to their deck and that it was out in daylight. Also unusual in that it does not seem to be mange ridden. It is possible it lives in our paddock but it is spending more of its time by their house - but probably not.  We do have some photos of our wombats but they tend to be shyer than the one above. This one couldn't be bothered to go into his den as we drove in.  And this one is a bit more red than most - he has obviously spent some time in the red clay! Yes, the image is blurry. You are just seeing how fast it is moving...  It has definitely been a few days that Roo would claim fits his song: The creek has risen noticeably but not about to come over its banks. Just a nice level of water. Once the rain let up, the birds came out in force. We saw lots of our regular friends but also heard (Erin) and then saw (Scott) glo...