Spring

Well, today i went down the dam to watch the turtles and give them a little bit of food. as usual, they all turned up (all 30 or so) and enjoyed their miniature feed. Then, as i was watching the turtle heads popping up and dissapearing in the water, i noticed a very little head, attatched to a tiny little shell. I'd seen this little baby a few times before, though never this close, cause its extremly cautious (can you blame it?) but today it was as bold as the adult murrays, and was climbing over the adults backs to get food. I decided to pick it up, because i generally keep a vague eye on the condition of the wild turtles (shell, brightness of eyes etc), and watch them to see how they behave naturally. This baby (well, not a very young hatchy, id guess about 3-4 months old. bout the size turt (ma turdle) was at that age) seems to be perfectly healthy with a beautiful (and might i add, algae covered) strong shell. I took some photos of her/him and put him/her back in the dam. she/he kinda swam about 30cm away from me, stuck her/his head up, looked around, and swam off. he/she was so cute :lol: here are some pics of the babe!










and just for fun, two turtles racing for food




Today's actually been pretty eventful, considering the baby animals ive seen today. i was feeding the baby magpies at out place, and the parents kept following me waiting for a feed (neither pair attacks me, i hand feed them and can tell them apart. lol. they follow me, waiting for food. they'd let me touch their chicks if i wanted to) and i rescued a baby plover from a drain, which was lucky that i heard it. it was so cute.. when i went to return it to its parents, i went within about 20m or so of the adults, put the chick on the ground and waited for a mo, to watch the reaction of the parents (they started with 4 chicks, now only have two, the idiots in our school must kill them or something) and the chick was cold, so kept trying to climb back onto my hand. was absolutly gorgeous little bird.. to get it from teh drain i had to lift the steel cover off and go into teh drain to get it.. lmao.. but once i put the chick down i walked another 20m or so away to watch what the parents would do, incase they attacked it (didnt think they would) and one of them came straight over to the chick and started brooding it (tucked the chick under its wings to warm it up) so yeah. ive been guarding these birds for ages, ask ben, amy, frullet, charnstar and carl rofl. its the only time i lose my shyness; when i see someone harrasing/hurting animals.. its surprising how scary i can apparently be. ah well, dont harrass/hurt animals and your safe! (i scared the hell outa these two guys yesterday afternoon, cause they were kicking the parents and harrasiing them... )

ah well, ill shuddup and stop raving about animals now, i kno not too many people actually care about them

Misty survived!

at about 1:30 this afternoon, my mum called me and said that misty was limping, and looked like she had a swollen foot. so i went ot check on her, and her right forepaw was double the size of her other paw. i immediatly thought "snake" and took her to the vets. they gave her a sedative, incase it was a poisonous snake. it would have cost thousands of dollars to give misty the anti venoms (plural, because there are a number of poisonous snakes in our area, so we didnt kno which one she had been bitten by) which, unfortunately, we simply cannot afford. so, because her temp was high, the vet gave her a antibiotic injection on the offchance that the swollen foot was from a bite from a non-venomous snake and caused it to get infected. we took misty home, and i sat with her the whole time. though she was sedated, she was crying and in pain, so i didnt leave her side for hours. however, now the sedative has worn off, and she seems to be ok! her paw is still very saw, though now she is purring and she can walk (though im keeping her as still as possible) so thank God that she's still alive. when i first saw the swollen paw, i noticed some yellow stuff on the surface of her fur. so, all i can assume is that SOMEHOW misty avoided the full force of the snake and its venom. she showed signs of being bitten by a tiger snake, which are deadly. but if it was a tiger snake, she'd be dead. but she's not! so YEAH!! SHE'S ALIVE!! i really thought i was going to lose her...