The Right Environment

If we want to attract birds to our garden, we must make sure we create a friendly environment for them.  So we plant a garden with native trees, hang feeders and place bird baths to encourage them.  By maintaining this environment, one by one, birds will come and soon we will be visited daily by a variety of birds.

 

The Snapping Turtle

A snapping turtle is one of the largest freshwater turtles in the world.  A unique characteristic of this rather strange creature is the way it captures its prey – it doesn’t chase, it tempts the prey to come to it.  This cunning turtle lies motionless on the river bed with its mouth wide open.  To entice any passing prey, it wriggles its worm-like appendage on the end of its tongue.  Then when an unwary victim enters its mouth, the turtle’s sharp jaws snap tight.

 

The Pebble-Mound Mouse

A curious little mouse lives in one of the hottest, driest and most unforgiving areas of Australia; where the reflected heat from the ground can go above sixty degrees; where it may not rain for years on end; and, where the world’s deadliest snakes are its neighbours.  How can this tiny creature possibly survive in such a hostile environment?

 

Frog Prince

A frog is an amphibian.  This word comes from the Greek amphi and bios, meaning double-life. Frogs live and function on land and in the water.  They start their life solely in the water as tadpoles.  When metamorphous begins, the tadpole develops legs, arms and the ability to live and breathe on land.  As the changing tadpole further develops, it spends less time in the water and more time on land. Soon, it loses its earlier characteristics and takes on a completely new form.

 

Free As A Bird

While freedom allows you to move freely in any direction, the outcomes sometimes can be quite harsh.  Freedom means you can reap rewards for good decisions but, equally, you are free to make bad decisions and reap the dire consequences.