Amphibians

Frogs live at our place and I Iove hearing their chorus. It means there is moisture around and the ones living in the pot plants on the verandah benefit from a spray of the hose. I'm sure I once heard a form of communication between these verandah frogs and our rooster. Every time the rooster crowed, the frog followed suit and would reply with his croak. I've identified these frogs as Litoria ewingi. They are a small brown tree frog.

Another frog I found I think looks like the Pobblebonk or Eastern Banjo Frog and I show a picture below.

                     Eastern Banjo Frog (Limnodynastes dumerilli)


A link for both species can be found here 
Another good website to visit is here  because you can hear the various frog calls and add to a Melbourne census.

Reptiles

We have a few Blue Tongue lizards in the garden and many skinks and sometimes even a visiting snake but generally the dogs seem to keep these away. They are used to the lizards and I won't let them harass them. The lizards need the sun's warmth to get going and I manage to take their photo when the  weather is cool and they are lethargic. I put a snail near a blue tongue lizard the other day and its tongue came out to test the air, then crunch, the snail was downed with relish. Great pest control! I love seeing the lizards come out from hibernation because it means that summer is on its way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-tongued_skink

Reptiles which visit us infrequently are snakes. The dogs usually alert us and below I show a photo of a Lowland Copperhead snake.

 

For more information see below.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowland_Copperhead

http://www.dpiw.tas.gov.au/inter.nsf/WebPages/BHAN-54E8A8?open 

Residents

There are many visiting birds to our garden and also quite a few residents. I consider them residents when they build nests here and raise their young.
Sparrows, Blackbirds, Swallows, Grey Shrike Thrushes, New Holland Honey Eaters, Magpies, Willy Wagtails, Grey Fantails, Superb Blue Wrens, Starlings, Indian Mynas, all build their nests here and many duck families bring their young to our dam.
It's a pleasure to see all this bird wildlife and one of my favourites is the Willy Wagtail whose young I show in the picture. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Wagtail

Visitors

Our apple trees are a very popular. Visitors include the Eastern Rosella, Musk Lorikeet and pictured here the Rainbow Lorrikeet. We don't have many apples left for ourselves by the time they have raided the trees. I don't mind sharing but I wish they would wait till the apples ripen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Lorikeet

 

Another visitor is the King Parrot, a beautiful specimen as pictured below. They don't seem to raid our fruit trees so much but did train us to give them seed by calling with piping loud notes and looking for us through the windows waiting for that snack.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_King_Parrot

The cockatoos in the photo are yearly visitors.They like to chew the pine cones in our trees and here they are enjoying some apples.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow-tailed_Black_Cockatoo

An echidna came to visit one day and dug itself in when the dogs were furiously barking at it. Poor thing! I had to rescue  it by sliding the spade underneath its belly and putting it somewhere safe.

An amazing animal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echidna