Frodo's mum

great cockie photo's CC I have been taking heaps of bird photo's past month or so here are a couple

I keep popping back to to see if there is any news or photo's hope all goes well for " little " widget :)

yipeeee for sunny day HAVE FUN lucky you off to the zoo soooo looking forward to the photo's :)

congrat's on your new lens great photo's so far loking forward to your zoo one's take heaps of the meercats for me :D

great shots I hope to go to one of our zoo's when weather gets a bit better and they have MEERCATS :D I love them and have never seen one in the flesh so very jealous of your gorgeous photo's of them :laugh:

maybe we should start a bird thread as i have been taking lots of bird photos that way we could all put photos in one thing ..just a thought :laugh:

well done pesh not easy getting birds in flight

what a gorgeous fella :) welcome hope to see lots more photos

gorgeous dogs :)

great photos they look like they had so much fun

yes first time I have really seen their eyes close up , glad you enjoyed the photos :) :laugh:I do sit out there for ages that's why I have so many photo's it's so peaceful sitting their and watching him swimming and diving sometimes he comes up with mud on his nose or a weed over him, I wish i could get some in the shallows as he scratches and rolls around thanks mudlark I'm just glad some people are enjoying seeing them, nice to be able to share them :)

Cazzie's Creations does a fantastic job I have about 6 paintings done but Cazzie and they are all gorgeous she has a facebook page and website if you just google Cazzie's Creations :)

found the little one in the big dam, haven't seen the larger one for a few days sorry all photo's look the same , he doesn't do anything else :laugh:

found him back in the front big dam today ..well i guess it's the same one

gorgeous photo's

looks like Widget is settled in for the day

I think they live alone, but once I thought I saw 2 in the big dam couldn't see him today in the small dam and had a quick check of the other 2 will check again tomorrow just googled and found this ..... The platypus is a solitary creature and tends to live alone. It only lives in a family group while the mother raises the young. The male takes no part in this, and remains solitary, except for during the mating process. All feeding and swimming activities are undertaken alone.

was good he had gone into the smaller dam as i had a change to get close thanks marion 01, and yes that does look like a spur on his back leg we often have them swimming about last year when one of the dams went down I could see a big burrow in one of the walls dams are clean in the sense we don't use any chemicals on the place, lots of rushes and reeds for them to swim in I often think wouldn't it be unreal to see a little family swimming about lucky here as have 3 so they can go from one to the other might go and see if he is still in the small dam still

we have a small river /creek but it's a few big paddocks away in another property

thanks everyone not sure how many there are, a few days ago one was in the front big dam and I tried for some photos but didn't have a lens long enough and yesterday while I was out looking for birds I saw him in the smaller dam, reckon it is the same one though. I love seeing them in the dam although some people don't as they say they mud up the water ....me I would rather have the platypus I got right near the edge and just stood there trying not to move much and he came right up to the edge and was looking about but stupid darn camera kept focusing on the branch near where he came up, by the time it had focused on him he went back under and I nearly threw the camera in the dam ..but didn't want to scare the platypus anyway hope you have enjoyed the photos as i thought a lot might not have seen a platypus up close

not the best photos but I thought some of you might like to see a platypus in my dam