Well our Spring plantings are well established now. Local trees, bushes and grasses. About 2000 over Spring. Mostly growing like mad in the heat of Summer, but it's getting very, very dry. It's flood or fire out here, nothing between. We are on grassland, though so fire is not such a worry, as long as we are here watching. It's usually people who panic and try to outrun fires at the last minute who burn.
Eucalypts we planted when we first came out here, 10 years ago, are blooming for the first time. The honeyeater population has exploded and the planted areas are full of butterflies. A few shy Jananese snipe are still hiding in the drying wetland. They'll be gone soon. We seldon see them but we hear their strange calls sometimes. The frogs are quiet now but I find little green and brown tree frogs, waiting out the dry season, under my plant-pots or near the bird baths. Most days we briefly glimpse golden and brown tiger snakes sunning themselves on paths or rocks. Occaisonally a copperhead. The long hot Summer only about halfway over. Cheers, Joy