Niche by Nature - Wildlife Relocation and Rescue

14/01/2025

The smallest Pink tongued skink I ever did see 🥹 With a ferocious attitude to match!

12/01/2025

05/01/2025

Please keep an eye out for the Landcare troopy and an ear out for any possible involvement. Stealing either way is a horrible thing to do, but especially from a group that is doing the very best to help the planet you live on….

STOLEN!

It aggrieves us to say, but the Noosa and District Landcare depot at Pomona was broken into over the weekend and our trainee mobile, the trusted Troopy has been stolen along with other smaller items.

Local police have been informed of the break-in and theft, but if anyone sees the vehicle or has any information about the car or the break-in at our depot please call our office on 07 5485 2468. The licence plate is 189 ZEB.

As we start a new group of trainees very soon, we need to find her!

Please feel free to share this post around and get the word out.

Thanks community 🌱

06/12/2024

Reflector tape or a Bandi Bandi?

Reflector tape, definitely reflector tape…. 🐍

08/11/2024

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If you need any relocations on the Sunshine Coast give me a call! Licensed, insured, affordable and a great bloody attitude!!!

📞 0447 223 068

08/11/2024

The patterning on these Pink Tongue Skinks is something only nature could create. Holding evolutions history in my hands. Dinosaurs evolved from the same common ancestor as snakes and lizards around 230 million years ago so science says… but who knows! It could be even more and I feel that in itself is pretty bloody cool. 🦎

31/10/2024

Eastern long necked turtle - Chelodina longicollis 🐢

Pretty little lady was attempting to cross the road on dark. Turtles are amazing at locating and navigating water sources. So if you find one crossing the road chances are they are heading to a dam/creek on the other side. Pick them up safely, usually around the edge of their shell behind the front legs to avoid their sharp feet digging in to you, and place them a safe distance from the road on the other side (the way they were heading). Otherwise if it’s in a spot there is no known bodies of water, take them to the closest creek or dam.

Interesting fact: They are also known as “Stinkers” as they can eject a pungent liquid secretion from glands at their armpits and groin when handled or disturbed 💚

30/10/2024

Found a bush cinnamon scroll at work today,
Also known as a Coastal Carpet Python all curled up.

Feel like it was an older snake, looked like it had a cataract or an old eye injury so I’m assuming it’s seen some stuff throughout its years. Biggest one I’ve seen in a while, thick and at least 3 metres long. I’d guess it would be at minimum 15 years old if not older. Studies suggest they can live over 100 years! 🐍

15/10/2024

A sequence of photos of our local snake rearranging my hair…

Love seeing them doing their thing in the wild where they belong - it is now sitting on top of the chook feeder waiting for a rat to come along. Amazing how they can smell and sense where food is, using their forked tongues to find it.🐍💚

08/10/2024

This little Brown Tree Snake hanging out in the backyard was pretty darn cute! I love their wide cat looking eyes. Had a good admire and let it go on its merry way exactly where I found it. How lucky we are to have the wildlife we do here in Australia, and all in our backyards! It’s important that we protect it, because without it the environment in which we live will suffer immensely.

Happy co-existing! 🤎🌳🐍

08/10/2024

Xenochrophis piscator - Otherwise an easier mouthful they are known as Keelbacks (Water snake) - These little guys are the only snake in Australia known to eat a cane toad without any complications from the toxins toads produce. Any other snake tries that and it will without a doubt kill them. Overtime they have built a natural immunity.

I’m sick of hearing the phrase “Only good snakes a dead snake”, it’s outdated and completely uneducated. As every creature on earth has a role to play in the balance of nature, snakes do to. The only creature that is out of balance is humans.

It’s likely on your encounters in Australia you will come across snakes, so it pays to educate yourself as they can be harmless and the best policy is to just let them be! 🐍

08/10/2024

Yessss 👏

26/09/2024

Humbly,

The best country in the world!

Look after it will ya!

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25/09/2024

If I come back reincarnated as a snake, let me please be one hanging around a house hold like ours… 💚

What a pretty thang! 🐍

25/09/2024

Relocated this healthy Carpet Python from a house in Doonan. It was pretending to be a chicken whilst it thieved a nice big egg for a meal.

So if your chickens don’t seem to be laying as many eggs, check if you’ve got a cheeky python hanging around stealing a couple!

People often ask if they would take a chicken, and chances are most likely not unless it was an extremely large snake and a smaller chicken but I wouldn’t rule it out completely. It’s pretty amazing what they can get down, as when they constrict their prey they can also crush it down making it easier to swallow whole. They can eat roughly 3 times the width of their head.

Remember - They just do what they know naturally, so if you have small pets in snake habitat, be aware and put things in place to reduce the likelihood of them hanging around. Have short lawns, keep your outdoors free of places to hide (garden waste, roof sheeting, timber piles etc) and avoid anything that attracts rodents. All pretty simple stuff really! 🐍