{"id":418,"date":"2013-12-07T13:39:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T13:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlewanderingwren.com\/2013\/12\/saturday-critters-aussie-animals.html\/"},"modified":"2013-12-07T13:39:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T13:39:00","slug":"saturday-critters-aussie-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlewanderingwren.com\/staging\/8794\/2013\/12\/07\/saturday-critters-aussie-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Critters &#8211; Aussie Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">G&#8217;day from Melbourne Australia!&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">And welcome to my first ever <i>Saturday Critters<\/i> post.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Well actually G&#8217;day is a bit fake coming from me because as originally a Brit,&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">I&#8217;m more likely to say Good Morning!&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">But G&#8217;day is the official welcome here, so G&#8217;day it is&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b>I&#8217;m Wren.<\/b>&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">My <i><b>Little Wandering Wren<\/b><\/i><span style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;blog is to share my travels with family and friends.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Now Aussie based for a while, it&#8217;s evolved into posts about my Australian life.<\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">A bonus has been connecting with new Blogger friends across the world.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"clear: right; float: right; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-AXvcCHq-nnM\/UqKvdAMWHoI\/AAAAAAAABOI\/LK9giCgEmks\/s320\/Headless%2Bchook.jpg?resize=240%2C320\" width=\"240\" \/><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-AXvcCHq-nnM\/UqKvdAMWHoI\/AAAAAAAABOE\/jHxoJvEmO2Q\/s1600\/Headless%2Bchook.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\"  style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><span style=\"clear: right; float: right; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-AXvcCHq-nnM\/UqKvdAMWHoI\/AAAAAAAABOE\/jHxoJvEmO2Q\/s320\/Headless%2Bchook.jpg?resize=240%2C320\" width=\"240\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><i><br \/><\/i><i><br \/><\/i><i><br \/><\/i><i><br \/><\/i><i><br \/><\/i><i><br \/><\/i><i><br \/><\/i><i><br \/><\/i><i>Photo No 1: The headless chook bird*<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Of course my first photo has to be a bird!&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">These are actually the colourful Galah parrots that live in our street.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">The top one represents me, the headless one, the bottom bird is one of my three teenage wren-lets asking &#8216;<i>what&#8217;s for dinner<\/i>?&#8217;!<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-vNZxpRvezcQ\/UqLGqJxrplI\/AAAAAAAABO8\/tACXtldHu7s\/s1600\/Galah.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\"  style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-vNZxpRvezcQ\/UqLGqJxrplI\/AAAAAAAABO8\/tACXtldHu7s\/s400\/Galah.jpg?resize=301%2C400\" width=\"301\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Our local Galah&#8217;s in daylight!<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">We&#8217;re not off to a good start because I had to Google &#8216;critters&#8217;!&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">I did have the vague notion that it was some animal,&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">but wasn&#8217;t sure whether it had to be the cute furry sort?<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">So I was pleased to find out a critter is a<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #cc0000; font-size: large;\"><i style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial;\">US and Canadian<\/i><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial;\">&nbsp;a dialect word for&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/creature\" style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial;\">creature<\/a><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Which explains why an Aussie Brit was a tad confused&#8230;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Not that I can&#8217;t do the cute, furry critters!&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Let me introduce you to our crazy poodle.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">He knows the routine, sit, stay, click and treat!<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Mutt is a four year old Cavoodle, blog dog&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">He is always up to something worth getting the camera out for,&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">he has a starring role in my blog&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-G7B6-vpV1Jo\/UqK-PD28nsI\/AAAAAAAABOs\/KnjbIApqHWw\/s1600\/Mutt.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\"  style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-G7B6-vpV1Jo\/UqK-PD28nsI\/AAAAAAAABOs\/KnjbIApqHWw\/s640\/Mutt.jpg?resize=418%2C640\" width=\"418\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">The Crazy Poodle blog dog &#8211; Sit, stay and grin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">We also have another member of the family, <b>Little Miss Hussy.&nbsp;<\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Our Miss Hussy is a three year old thoroughbred racehorse&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">who is just coming back into training after a spell at grass.&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">We have a tiny share in her,&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">but we get a massive amount of pleasure&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">seeing her race,&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">especially if she wins!<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-4UAlSjwdJEc\/UqLN3J2nikI\/AAAAAAAABPM\/TD4puVo9DYc\/s1600\/LM%2BHussy.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\"  style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-4UAlSjwdJEc\/UqLN3J2nikI\/AAAAAAAABPM\/TD4puVo9DYc\/s640\/LM%2BHussy.jpg?resize=552%2C640\" width=\"552\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Miss Hussy &#8211; Two wins, a second, third and a fifth&#8230;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">As I now know that a critter can be any creature,&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">let me bring you up close and personal with some less cute Aussie ones!<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Now I live in Melbourne, Australia&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">and I do get asked about the scary Aussie wildlife.&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">We do occasionally get up close and personal with the snakes, crocs and spiders but on a good day, it&#8217;s only on holiday with a pair of&nbsp;binoculars!<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-rsID5ZVlTBw\/UqK2KfPjG7I\/AAAAAAAABOc\/6Hf2dT227G8\/s1600\/snake.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\"  style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-rsID5ZVlTBw\/UqK2KfPjG7I\/AAAAAAAABOc\/6Hf2dT227G8\/s640\/snake.jpg?resize=640%2C480\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Snake in Darwin, NT outback museum<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">In the last twelve months we have had holidays in Queensland and the Northern Territories which has brought us closer to some of these critters.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">We do have some poisonous whitetail and red back spiders in Melbourne,&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">which we keep an eye out for, but they are not that common&#8230;&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">so it&#8217;s a huge &#8216;<i>Wooah<\/i>&#8216; from me&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">when we come face to face with this humongous spider&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">across our path whilst on holiday in the NT.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-zImMLUDJo5U\/UqLludKj8qI\/AAAAAAAABPo\/3bhyBKdcbfw\/s1600\/Spider.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\"  style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-zImMLUDJo5U\/UqLludKj8qI\/AAAAAAAABPo\/3bhyBKdcbfw\/s400\/Spider.jpg?resize=243%2C400\" width=\"243\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">spider, Mary&#8217;s River, Darwin, NT<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Over the last few weeks in Western Australia and New South Wales, we&#8217;ve sadly lost two surfers who have been&nbsp;fatally&nbsp;attacked by sharks. I have never seen a shark in the wild in Australia, but then I&#8217;m not a surfer.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">This year whilst visiting Sentosa Aquarium, in Singapore I photographed this shark.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-Tw6-wOWdvzE\/UqLjsr2d_MI\/AAAAAAAABPc\/_dy2ZJjZjIc\/s1600\/Sharks.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\"  style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"336\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-Tw6-wOWdvzE\/UqLjsr2d_MI\/AAAAAAAABPc\/_dy2ZJjZjIc\/s640\/Sharks.jpg?resize=640%2C336\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Sharks at Sentosa Marina, Singapore<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">In weeks to come I hope to show you the more appealing side of Australian wildlife. I should be showing you kangaroos, koalas, platypus, echidna etc&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">but it&#8217;s usually just the tourists who photograph them.&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Next week I am going on a road trip so will try to take some photos!<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Thank you for taking the time to read my post,&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">I hope to visit your blog soon.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">I love reading all my comments and always take the time to reply.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">For those of you who are not on Google&nbsp;+,&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">the e-mail button on my blog sidebar reaches me with a private message.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Thank you to Eileen for establishing <a href=\"http:\/\/viewingnaturewitheileen.blogspot.com.au\/2013\/12\/saturdays-critters-1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday Critters<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">&nbsp;Have a great weekend!<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-Oh-oQFtQ0O0\/UgOB-H-ilaI\/AAAAAAAAAYs\/in7jh6iUMtc\/s595\/2013%25252011%25253A51%252520AM.jpg?ssl=1\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\"  target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone\" height=\"91\" id=\"blogsy-1375961597672.1733\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-Oh-oQFtQ0O0\/UgOB-H-ilaI\/AAAAAAAAAYs\/in7jh6iUMtc\/s500\/2013%25252011%25253A51%252520AM.jpg?resize=500%2C91&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">* A<b>&nbsp;chook<\/b>&nbsp;is an Aussie word for Chicken.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;\">like a headless chicken<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;\">&nbsp; (<\/span><i style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;\">British<\/i><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;\">)&nbsp;<\/span><i style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;\">also<\/i><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/span><b style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial; text-align: left;\">like a chicken with its head cut off<\/b><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial; text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;\">(<\/span><i style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;\">American<\/i><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;\">)&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;\">if you do something like a headless chicken, you do it very quickly and without thinking carefully about what you are doing.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>G&#8217;day from Melbourne Australia!&nbsp; And welcome to my first ever Saturday Critters post. 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