Blue Tongue Lizard
We are fortunate to have a number of Blue Tongue lizards in our garden.
I think it is in large part due to Caroiln's hard work over the last few years, transforming the garden into a native habitat for Australian animals, with an emphasis on plants that would have grown locally pre-European times. This attracts a lot of native flora and fauna desperate for habitat. We also designed features of the steps and garden to provide plenty of hiding places for them where cats and kookaburras cannot easily nab them.
Our neighbours house is mostly unoccupied, with a somewhat overgrown garden, which provides further range for them to live undisturbed.
Last year we had three or four blue tongues, although we did not see them for the latter half of the summer and worried that some devices we installed to try and deter cats had in fact deterred the lizards.
It has been wonderful over the past few weeks to see them more regularly in our garden once again. This morning, I scored the trifecta of seeing three on the stair way that leads to our front door.
Blue Tongue Lizard
We are fortunate to have a number of Blue Tongue lizards in our garden.
I think it is in large part due to Caroiln's hard work over the last few years, transforming the garden into a native habitat for Australian animals, with an emphasis on plants that would have grown locally pre-European times. This attracts a lot of native flora and fauna desperate for habitat. We also designed features of the steps and garden to provide plenty of hiding places for them where cats and kookaburras cannot easily nab them.
Our neighbours house is mostly unoccupied, with a somewhat overgrown garden, which provides further range for them to live undisturbed.
Last year we had three or four blue tongues, although we did not see them for the latter half of the summer and worried that some devices we installed to try and deter cats had in fact deterred the lizards.
It has been wonderful over the past few weeks to see them more regularly in our garden once again. This morning, I scored the trifecta of seeing three on the stair way that leads to our front door.