Backyard visitors!

Over the past week or so we have had two unwelcome visitors to our backyard.

As you can imagine I was not very thrilled to hear Seb yell down the stairs that there was a snake in the backyard! After very quickly closing the back doors I realised it was a small, skinny green tree snake in a tree overhanging our side wall. It had managed it catch an unsuspecting chicak and was waiting patiently for it to die before finishing off the meal. It was fascinating to watch, especially as this green snake changed to a black and white striped snake as its body expanded to accommodate this latest meal.

Our second interesting character to find its way into the yard was an enormous black and yellow spider. Its colouring was very different to the spiders we were use to seeing at home.