Why are the native animals revealing themselves to me?

 What is it with all of the native animals revealing themselves to me lately??

Yesterday I was walking around in the paddock looking for a lost electronic dog collar.

It is only 2 weeks old and cost a small fortune.

I swear that particular dog has lost 4 collars this year!

I was stunned when I spotted this guy.

He burred up and started to flare up his puffy thing around his head.

I think he is some sort of dragon. Not a real frill neck.

The true name will come to me later.

He started to step towards me as I stepped towards him. 

I just wanted a better photo.

Then the kids arrived home from school and I called them over to have a look.

WE started to worry us that he was going to run up me like a tree!

When I first spotted him, I thought he was dead.

My little fella had mowed all the paddock on the weekend and he looked like he had squashed him by accident.

So as you do I threw a stick near to him.

With that he responded!

He does look dead though.

Lucky I didn't try to pick him up!

Dead snakes and lizards really, really, really stink!

He was quite well camouflaged, wasn't he?

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This is a common view right out my window at work.

This one often comes and sits right outside my office window.

The kids were trying to feed him something.

Biscuits!

I told them that was not really his diet.

Later on after Homework club had finished and I was waiting for a student to be collected, we saw him or a relative with a sandwich quarter in his mouth.

HA!

 So much for a natural diet!

This is him trying to catch the biscuits.

I've said before how much I adore them and I'll say it again.

Beautiful creatures they are.

Keeping all the snakes out of the playground!

;) j