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[–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

Reduce mown open space, increase canopy cover and mid story density.

A walk to the shops should include large sections of crawling, climbing, and sliding.

Fallen logs should prevent most cars from travelling and only the bravest and largest of now completely necessary urban diesel 4WDs may traverse thereby finally being somewhat useful for day to day.

Magpie problems solved.

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    [–] [S] 1 point 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    The topic is blue-tongue lizards.

    As for snakes, I've lived next to bushland for decades in Sydney & Qld and apart from pythons (which are beautiful, harmless to humans and gently make their way going where they're going and don't worry about me (and vice versa) I can count on the fingers of one hand the times I've seen any or felt threatened by the others I've seen. They get away in any case because they rightly know we are the dangerous and lethal ones (easily proven). Curiously, someone who visited my place who is scared of snakes did find one. Do we attract what we fear? Who knows? The snake of course did no harm or even got defensive and just got away from him.

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    [–] [S] 1 point 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    To make matters more baffling we have blue heeler cattle herding dogs (which is the breed that cartoon Bluey and her family are), and we also call hard-working rural people blue heelers and have called an Aussie police drama "Blue Heelers'

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    [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

    Off-topic but we also would call Bingo (from the kiddo cartoon) "Bluey" because she's red, and we'd call Bluey "Red" because she's blue, because we like to be confusing.

    Also, South Aussie here, had one in my house the other day and moved it into a bucket and took them back outside and under a bush. Always get them in our garden at some point or another.

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