This baby dwarf gecko was about to go into the drain of our kitchen basin.
So, we eased him into my wife's rescue bucket and I took a few shots before we released him in our garden.
I will also show you an Olive Thrush bird in here and then end the post with a squirrel.
Our car was at an auto body shop for repair, and we were stranded at home. Now I am claustrophobic which simply means that I cannot sit between 4 walls of a house for a long time. That's why I am a child of the open skies. I have no fear of heights, but don't ask me to enter anywhere underground.
So, today I will show you some sights in our garden, and that's where I spend most of the time when we are at home.
Come and look at the wildlife.
He was the size of the first part of my wife's index finger About 2,5 cm.
Did you know that an olive thrush (Turdus olivaceus) likes to eat avocado?
I caught him in an avocado eating shot. A clever bird, as he waits for the squirrels to eat their share, and when they leave he pops in.
Here below was some funny business.
The youngster was trying to eat an avocado pip.
Yep, he struggled to eat the pip, for a time, but he had no luck, and after a time he dropped it :)
Only the olive thrush was an adult in this show, as the gecko was a newborn, and the squirrel was also very young. The squirrel is now in an investigative stage to test what he can and cannot eat. As a baby, the mom led the baby squirrels here into the garden, and she showed them that they could eat the flesh of avocados, but she didn't show them that they cannot eat the skin, or the pip of the fruit.
So, yeah, one can always find things in a garden here, and we also have two lizard skinks in residence, but they didn't show up on this day. Then we also have the laughing doves, that still bring their youngster every day to come and eat the crushed nuts that the missus lays out for them in our garage entrance. I also have a photo somewhere that shows how an Ibis hadedah scratches around for worms in our flowerpots. Not to mention all the other wild birds and even toads that visit us. A veritable zoo that we have here, with a difference, as all wildlife is free to come and go.
Such is life.
I hope you enjoyed the pictures and the story.
Photos by Zac Smith. All-Rights-Reserved.
Camera: Canon PowershotSX70HS Bridge camera.
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