Look before you leap

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If the snake in the library wasn't enough, now it is a croc in the pool! Not my pool, fortunately, but a public pool in Darwin. Admittedly Darwin is about 4 200 km from where I am now but, in my book, not even that distance is enough!

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We do get lots of roos around, only Western greys (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Grey_Kangaroo) so not very big or exotic but nice to watch. Lots of lizards, bobtails (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stump-tailed_skink) especially but what I am most impressed by is a nearby colony of Yellow-billed spoonbills (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow-billed_Spoonbill), not so much because of what they are but that I have watched the colony grow from 3-4 windblown strays about 8 years ago to a permanent colony with about 20-25 breeding pairs.

Within a short distance there is a breeding pair of Ospreys (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osprey) who have one young in the nest right now and a nesting pair of Whistling Kites (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistling_Kite) who have raised at least one chick to maturity every year since 1994!