Baby Animals on the Farm

We have had a few new arrivals on the farm lately, which is giving me a shameless opportunity to segue to some self promotion for my Little Golden Book banners.

We woke up yesterday morning to a new member of the family. This little fella (or girlie) was a complete surprise. It's name is Fungus as it is the colour of a mushroom. So cute! Calves are so lovely when they frollic.

We never seem to realise when our two cows are pregnant and little bundles of surprise regularly arrive. This picture was taken a few hours after it was born and we were glad to see Fungus was up on its feet and looked healthy. The last calf was born by the silly mother into the dam. My husband (Sparky) had to haul it out, which was very difficult as they are deceptively heavy. It didn't help matters when the stupid mother charged Sparky once the baby was on the bank...and he had to jump into the stagnant dam again to escape. Needless to say, we haven't been near this calf.

Another baby is this White Headed Pigeon. Its mum and dad built a nest on our pegola, about a metre outside our door. They have a gorgeous cooing sound and are very elegant to look at as adults. This baby is about three weeks old, and still an ugly duckling. She left the nest a day after I took this picture. I think I freaked her out, poor darlin.'

 

Baby number three was this poor little Tawny Frogmouth. It is not an owl, but many think it is, and I am not helping matters by including a picture of and owl into the post, but what the hey, anything goes when one is shamelessly advertising.

I found it on some rocks in the orchard...pretending to be rock. Normally they spend the day in our Silky Oak tree camoflauged next to the trunk. After two days on the ground, I knew that something was wrong, and took poor little Pebbles/Bam Bam ('cos it was pretending to be a rock, ha-ha) into the vet. Luckily there were no broken bones, but it was very thin and weak. It barely weighed anything at all. They have passed it onto a WIRES carer, who will fatten it up and release it back to us  so it can return to its family.