Critters - feeding Floyd and Meg

Last night when I went to feed Floyd and Meg I saw an enormous green frog sitting on Meggie's water bucket. She was ignoring it, I guess she was hungry. Who am I kidding? She's always hungry!

As I was feeding Meg the frog jumped up into the arcmesh gate and sat there until I finished feeding meg and nipped back up to the house to get the camera. When I arrived back the frog leapt off the gate and into the grass and leaves. Froggie was headed for the long grass still up near the back side of the BFS - this is where the snakes hunt frogs! But hopefully this frog will be safe as I've got some snake scarers putting vibrations into the ground.

I couldn't get a better shot of the frog because she was travelling!

Those brown leaves would be bigger than a bread a butter plate, and some of them are even bigger than that (the tri-lobal ones are bigger than a bread and butter plate).

critters

Look what I found when I went out to feed Floyd and Meggie.... It's only the second one I've seen here. This is the longest, skinniest one I've seen. The other one was in the 90s and he was a fat little fellow.

It is a legless lizard, you can see his front legs (he has no back legs), if you look carefully. They are very clumsy slitherers and slow, unlike snakes which are fast and graceful.

Bugs and critters and stuff

My little bees are back. Blue banded bees. These are native bees. The photographs don't show that the bands on the abdomen are a pretty blue.