April visitors…

Our garden has certainly been very appreciated by all in the last few weeks.

Caterpillars, bugs, butterflies, moths,  birds, they are all having a ball.

I found this beautiful chrysalis hanging on my desert rose one morning. With the sun shining on it. It looked like a Christmas bauble.

I love this praying mantis doing some tight rope walking on the clothes line!

And this delicate dragon fly enjoying the warm morning sun.

This poor little fellow got trapped in the house, probably lost his bearing. But I did return it to his environment after taking the photo.

This moth though didn't have a long life. Right after I snapped the shot it ended up as a snack for Freja.

This spider lives in the outside corner of our ensuite. I have noticed him shedding his skin once already and he is getting slowly bigger.

We have a lot of different spiders around the house…

However on a trip to the vet, he had a pet spider hanging around and I couldn't help myself admiring his perfection. He's span was as big as Svenne's hand!

This Lady beetle was well into her morning breakfast on one of the chilli plant.

So were these caterpillars. How could they  fit into a chilli?

These beautiful bugs abound. They always are in pairs. I guess the most stunning one is the male!

This is the first time we've seen a snake around the house. Green tree snake, harmless, of course. None the less I don't like snakes…

And I hope these three beautiful little birds weren't supper for him… As we saw them the night after in the same location, hugging together at the tip of a branch. Nature can be cruel...

Cane toads though, I've got no compassionate feelings for them. They are the worst pests ever introduced to Australia and are a real menace for the Australian native fauna. And we are very concerned about Freja finding one. She's still a puppy and eating everything she finds. She would surely die of their potent poison. So we try to do our bit by collecting them and disposing of them, (humanely of course).

The cows are back in the paddock next to our house.

 And I hope that we won't find this well endowed bull  in our garden one morning... as someone said to us recently.

It would be interesting as to how to get him out though...