now to figure out how to get it out!
Showing posts with label fauna we live with. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fauna we live with. Show all posts
living with cats
These two are funny ... Millie is his baby - and the only female of 4 cats.
We have two black and whites and two gingers. check out the building of their outdoor facility where they go each day, if the weather is not foul. the playlist of videos for the cat run are here.
some of my favourites :
Archie escaping the pen which caused us to put up electric wiring - needless to say he tried to escape again, only once.
Millie was the first to come down the ramp leading out of the house and to go into the big tunnel (under the road) to get to the pen - her first time.
our youtube channel is regularly updated with experiences in the studio,#countryliving, #tasmania, artworks including artist books and more including #Snowcone - a dariy cow in retirement that lives with us.
she has her own playlist that she shares with our turbo chooks
and #George - the old cat
i would love to hear about the animals you may live with
a little house sparrow a narrow escape
This tiny bird was caught up in the 'v' of the bird stand - you can see i have plugged it with a little vase at the moment. the bird was stuck in the bottom of the V shape with each wing splayed around two legs. fortunately it did not struggle while i lifted it out by its two little wings.
it was extreme luck i was passing having just walked up to the house to get a cup of coffee.
. with eyes closed and shock kicking in i put it into a shoe box with the lid askew in the studio for an hour. checking a couple of times its little body was breathing heavily while it recovered.
and thankfully, recover it did! it was bright eyed and alert when i put the box outside without the lid. with other bird sounds around, the little mite chirped loudly and i saw an adult come over to the box. the little one soon flew off with the adult. so good.
is it a house sparrow ? i googled but i cannot see any images with the yellow marks on either side of its beak.
new season Turbo Chooks - babies being looked after by the extended family
Early Spring our couple of Turbo Chooks that live on the block outside the studio had 6 chicks; they managed to raise 4 to young teenage status and 3 days ago the whole family of 4 teens and 2 adults marched 6 new little chicks out across the lawn. so lovely to see how they all pitch in. (images below and you tube video below images)
Out and About Spring happening
Baby turbo chooks happening all over the place .. these live outside the studio - they started with 6 and unfortunately lost 2 to goshawks. These 4 have been doing okay - the image was taken 2 weeks ago. We have kept fallen trees along the edge of the creek which is providing shelter and hiding spots for them. so good. so cute.
and this one (September creek after rains)
Spring joy is fast becoming the most stressful time of year
Its fast becoming the most stressful time of the year for us. This poor little bundle was picked up by a goshawk, turbo chook mum and i went hollering across the hill and the hawk dropped the chick. If it were not for the talons i wonder if the chick would have survived. She is now buried under a shrub.
This little one (above) was part of 6 day old chicks and as of today we are down to 4with one that is hopping having hurt a leg. Today has been the most stressful as goshawks have come and gone and now a crow has noticed the little one that is not walking well. Mum has chased it away twice and it is just upsetting to think of the battle these little ones endure daily.
a short video here of the turbo babies a couple of days before.
Looking back at looking back (cute overload spoiler)
On this same day last year these two posts went up heralding our coming into our 3rd year in this place, #countryliving #Tasmania. And here we are again. So, we are on our 3rd anniversay here (going into our 4th year) and also the anniversary (April) of these little guys coming into our lives - 4. years ago.
the garden is growing exponentially with a few intros over summer
and i walk to the creek every day a few times a day in the hope of catching sight of the platypus, the eel or what fish are around (trout or blackfish)
and again this year with the rains, the little brown tree frog visited - sticking to our patio glass door in the middle of the night
looking back over art activities in the studio this past summer here
LOOKING BACK on 7 Days (2)
i knew it ! ... it comes around so quickly ! It is hard to believe we have been here for 2 years already and now into our third year. I have a small notebook into which i have been jotting down the plants that grow here (if i can identify them), the birds that visit and when as well as the fish, reptiles etc.
The photo i took of the little brown tree frog was when he was stuck to our glass sliding door - so beautiful, really tiny. The (second) slide show below is a collection of the birds i could find online that have visited here with one or two of my own photos included where i could capture them including the little red-breasted robin and a wasp! I have added a list of the names under the images. where there is a (g) following the name that is my own photo.
top row: bassian thrush common blackbird. ? not sure (a cicada?)
no idea (?) (g)
top row: little wattle bird goshawk visiting (g)
top row: grey (?) heron visiting (g)
LOOKINGBACK on 7 Days
An idle thought but i will give it a go - so many projects on the go its difficult to know when to post anything about any particular one especially since 'we' tend to wait until its done and perfect. You should see my reject pile !
So i am going to attempt to post each Sunday a look back on the previous 7 days - just images of things mostly in progress. Hopefully this will capture more (in a kinda diary way) my activities and provide the discipline i lack in posting regularly. Let's see how we go !
(I am already a day late on the very first "Looking Back"). The images reflect my week - birds visiting, creek walks and printmaking (of the creek and) flora in the garden, George on a coffee morning catchup, exploring photographs without using a camera, stitching (this piece is finally completed), monoprinting, painting, books and cooking. A middle of the night dash to the emergency as V had a terrible reaction to a virus. It was an all-nighter but a week later he is doing well having been given antibiotics.
so ... .till the next 'looking back' .... of course the weeks come around very quickly.
the Glory of the Wattles this year and a surprise visitor to the creek
These are just magnificent this year. last year, there were no yellow flowers - i did notice a couple had small bits of yellow 'trying' to come on but it never happened. at the time i thought perhaps it was a variety that didnt flower ... but nope, happily i was wrong. We are surrounded by them ... thankfully i am more allergic to grasses than pollen
see more about the wattles here and join our youtube channel
Lovely to find these visitors yesterday - went down with a cup of coffee to see if i can see playtpus ... he hasn't been around for weeks ... i am thinking because the creek is running high and fast.
a baby has arrived in the creek
so sweet ... today the 'platypus' was not shy and hung around for hours.... then i realised its a baby ... i hadn't seen the platypus (the adult) for nearly three weeks ... maybe this is why ? So much great footage here as this one was quite open to its environment. so good.
and there is a bit of a cleanup required along the creek edge after a night of high winds and trees that have fallen across the creek. see video here
MUSING : how a place contributes to lifestyle
Examples of 'lifestyle' include habits in sleeping patterns, physical activity, hydration habits, sleeping patterns.
Wikipedia defines a lifestyle "as the way a person lives. This includes patterns related to personal relationships, consumption, entertainment and dress. A lifestyle typically also reflects an individual's attitudes, values or worldview."
We 'know' this means tempering things 'bad' and maintaining things 'good'. Bad and good being highly subjective and individual to circumstance, beliefs and choices made. I also want to include a level of privilege.
There are many lists on the internet defining 'lifestyle' to include an active lifestyle, a rural lifestyle, a healthy lifestyle, an urban lifestyle, a solo lifestyle etc.
Its been a long road to this place in the country, in Tasmania - and what a place it is ... we feel most grateful and look forward to discovering all it has to offer. We have been here for 12 months now having spent time here in all seasons, plus the experience of the creek flooding 3 months into our residency.
YES this is my studio ... imagine when we first came across the bridge and saw this magnificent building. We both KNEW it was going to be an art studio - truly, for the months prior I kept saying to V 'I need, I want a warehouse' ! Many around us thought i could never fill it which always made us both smile.
early days.I had a long list (about 12 points) of things that 'had to go' or be refashioned, in my mind.
Once we moved in ... not a single thing needed taking out or refashioning - it all seemed to fit once we put our things in - everything we had in furniture and bits and pieces found its place as if it were made for it and everything on my list to get rid of, began to make sense. For example that shelf in the kitchen sticking out in the middle of nowhere holds my coffee machine with the coffee pods in a container just beneath the shelf. The other is the large netted structure out on the front paddock - it had to go ... well 12 months later it is filled with vegetables growing madly. cabbage, squash, tomatoes, lettuce, brussel sprouts ... we had corn that was my 'epic fail'. And so it was revealed with everything on my list.
Being our 1 year anniversary here, I am musing at how 'place' is lifestyle, at least for us at present, and how it has improved many of those things on our list that is considered 'lifestyle'.
And to walk across acres of a mix of native forest, pasture (green changing to beige during summer) with a creek (Claytons Rivulet) running through the whole is just magic. 12 months of the landscape captured, below.
ONE YEAR anniversary of our move to #countrytasmania
this one got away from me ... our 1 year anniversary - musing at the bridge ... in the moment
we did make the date ... our anniversary dinner.
and this is what it makes us feel like !
images from our first year here #countryliving #tasmania
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