Brigitte’s autumn hideaway

Posts Tagged ‘Animals’

In New Zealand we celebrate the beginning of Spring with the first day of September.

In October the farmers and veterinarian will be busy with lambing.

This lovely sheep had her lambs much earlier.

I enjoy the warmer days for small walks not far away from our house.
This by example is a way up to a summit.

The broom will be covered with yellow blossoms soon and is so high you can’t see anything.

On the top you can catch a glimpse of snow by the faraway mountains.

We have no snow down here but instead a lot of blooming trees and flowers
Our garden is full of interesting animals like this live bearing ‘copper skink’ which can be found only on the North island of New Zealand.

Our rabbits are also developing great and Fluffy is one who we take inside from time to time. He is Aileen’s favorite except for Anna of course

We enjoy the last days of winter and are looking forward for an exciting Spring

When you drive  SH53 over to Martinborough you will pass the ‘Once upon farm’

There are lovely farm animals like high land cows and a bunch of donkeys.

Our kids always enjoy to see the emu which is walking along the ways between pigs and Alpacas

Gosh I found a draft I never published!
This is of our girls when they have been little!

Aileen was teaching Emy some tricks.

While Rosie strayed around and was looking what the boys were up to

“Hey guys! Share the fun with me!”

Now this girls are already Mums!
Here are Rosie’s little babies.

We moved the rabbits into a save hutch and this is also an older pic…

… with Aileen in the run out with Emy.

You can follow all the rabbit stories on Benny’s blog. Please click here.

Goodness me I am really far behind blogging on our family blog!

So much happened lately and I try to catch up…

As you know we have some cute baby bunnies.

We had a sad moment went we lost three of them on a weekend. Click here for a link to Benny’s post.

I am glad Aileen’s baby bunny Anna survived.

We take her inside as much as we can to make her a lovely pet.

Not all night visitors are that bad like the one who killed our three bunnies…

… Christoph called us out one night and showed us a hedgehog wandering around in our garden

And Jonas found our first possum on a tree! It was high up on our poplar

For the first time of their young life our kids could watch a monarch caterpillar turn into a chrysalis!
We had two fat caterpillars in the garden.

To save the beauties from enemies like wasps we took them inside because one was in it’s typical position before the big change into a chrysalis.

Christoph turned on his computer camera and filmed the whole magical event which happened during the night!

Here you can see the amazing process on our first video

Today the kids watched the change of the other caterpillar which was ready in the morning.

And here the magic starts…

… after a few minutes it was nearly finished.

Aileen took the caterpillar skin…

… and had a closer look with the magnifying glass

Just amazing how this monarch caterpillar went out of his skin…

In two or three weeks we will hopefully keep the camera rolling to observer when the butterflies show off