There are a lot of different animals here. Since our arrival, one, or both, of us has seen:
Reptiles
- Goanna or lace monitor lizard
- Black rock skink
- Nobbi or Jacky Dragon
- Gecko
Mammals
- Eastern grey kangaroo
- Wallaby
- Ring-tailed possum
- Fox
- Hare
Birds
- Masked lapwing (plover)
- Australian wood duck
- White faced heron
- Great egret
- Dusky moorhen
- Purple swamphen
- Gallah
- Sulphur crested cockatoo
- Blue faced honeyeater
- Superb fairy wren
- Crimson rosella
- Eastern rosella
- Red rumped parrot
- Yellow-billed spoonbill
- Silvereye
- Sacred kingfisher
- Yellow parrot
- Blue winged parrot
- Australian darter
- Turquoise parrot
- Cormorant
- Orange chat
- Crimson chat
- New Holland honeyeater
- Red Wattlebird
- Golden Whistler
- Grey necked heron
- Willy wagtail
- Red-backed kingfisher
- King parrot
- western corella
Spiders and other bugs
- Red back spider
- Huntsman spider
- White tail spider
- Wolf spider
- Swift ground spider
- St Andrews cross spider
- Stick insect
- Praying mantis
- Black field cricket
- Green potato bug
More details, and photos of some, to follow.
That Green Potato bug looks like a friendly fellow! Now all you need on your blog is some photos so that people can vote scary/not scary : ).
Heather
It would be mostly a gallery of not scary, because when we see the scary ones we run or if they are small enough, squash them immediately :).