BEYOND THE SEWAGE WORKS

I THINK THIS IS THE ENTRANCE TO A FOX'S DEN (BEHIND SEWAGE WORKS)

THE SNAKES WERE ON TOP OF THE SMALL HILL IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS PHOTO

SUN-BASKING RED-BELLIED BLACK SNAKES

4pm last Friday - in glorious, glorious weather - I came across two Red-bellied Black Snakes lying on top of one other behind Bundanoon's sewage treatment plant. Got within 15 feet of them. Perhaps they were mating. One sensed my presence, flicked its tongue, raised its sleek head, then nonchalantly slithered away; the other stayed motionless, so I prodded it gently with a dead branch to see if it was alive. It came to and headed off in an equally unconcerned manner. Here was a serpent encounter which again proved wild snakes don't want to chase you, attack you, bite you. I always figure our snakes are a lot more bloody fearful of us than we are of them. Photo of the snakes' habitat to come... LJ, October 13 2014.

CBC

I heard a Channel-billed Cuckoo at 6:30pm while doing my weekly boxing class up the road. First CBC back I reckon. LJ, October 9 2014.

BLOOD MOON

Right now there's a blood moon, but it's so overcast in the Highlands I can't see it. Shame. LJ, October 8 2014.

WARATAHS, BINDAR CRESCENT