Living in the suburbs doesn't have to mean life without native wildlife.

We live in a small ordinary suburb of Melbourne but are lucky enough to
share our garden with a multitude of native wildlife.

Depending on the seasons and the weather we have had a number of
animals, birds, reptiles and insects visit us throughout the years.

We do have regular wildlife that live on our property such as Brushtail
possums, Ringtail possums, Skinks, Wattle birds, Thornbills,
Pardalotes, Eastern spinebills, Currawongs, Magpies, Lorikeets and
Rosellas.

This doesn't mean that our home is anything special. Our house
is small but on a large block of land. We are lucky enough to
have a few native reserves near us as well which do attract the
birds.

One thing that we do have is lots of mature trees (much to the
annoyance of our neighbours!). We also do not use any
chemicals and we have quite a number of native plants that are
mixed in with exotics.

We enjoy watching the animals and observing what they do in our garden.

We have supplied our possum friends with nesting boxes so they have
somewhere to sleep. Only one is lived in at the moment but there's
always room for more!

Brushtail possums are well known for taking advantage of holes in roofs
and tend to move in, much to the annoyance of the resident. From first
hand experience, we've had them in our roof but managed to move them
out by waiting until dark when they come out to forage and then covering
up the hole where they access.

Wildlife in the suburbs

Possums are our friends

Over the last three years, our Brushtail possum friends have moved into our unused chimney. Petie the mother possum has
introduced her babies to us and we all live happily together. We really enjoy seeing our possum friends each evening but
they never come out to our loungeroom. They are wild animals and we don't interact with them except to give them a piece
of fruit before they go outside at nights. Brushtail possums have very long & sharp claws to climb trees. Never try & pat a
brushtail possum and watch out if you feed them as they can bite an scratch to get the food.

To add to our regulars, we have also had visits from Kookaburras, a
Tawny Frogmouth, Sulphur Crested Cockatoos, Galahs, Black ducks
and bats.

From left: Spotty, Petie &
Primrose visit down the chimney
most evenings

We give them a little piece of fruit
before they go out on their nightly
adventures

Look out!!!! Here they come!!!!

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