On One Quiet and Still Afternoon.

On one quiet and still afternoon,
A Kookaburra calls from a distance,
Through the cool, chilly air.

On one quiet and still afternoon,
There is a far away crunch of an Anticliner,
Dashing through the leaves.

On one quiet and still afternoon,
A clan of crickets,
Chat amongst themselves.

On one quiet and still afternoon,
A cosy candle glow,
Flows throughout a cottage window.

Bug-eyed-osauras facts

106,000,000 years BC, there was a certain type of omnivorous dinosaur that had evolved to be able to survive in the very cold climate of Antarctica. They were called Leaellynasaura and were only two metres long. Being small made it easier to survive because there was less body weight to carry around meaning they needed less energy and therefore less food. They lived in small clans dominated by one leading pair.

In Antarctica, there was no light for two months during the winter and then during summer, the sun never set for five months. Leaellynasaura's eyes adapted, by growing bigger so they could see during the two months of darkness.

During breeding time, the Leaellynasaura's would collect dried leaves, ferns and twigs to build a nest for the eggs. Once the eggs were laid in the nest, the mother would check the temperature of the nest to make sure it is the right temperature for the eggs to develop correctly. After some time in the eggs, the unhatched dinosaurs could be heard responding to their mother's vocal clickings.

Something I found funny, is that when an egg thief comes to steal eggs, they way the Leaellynasaura's defend their eggs is by facing their rear to the egg theif and flicking dried leaves and ferns through their back legs, towards the egg thief. (the same way that a dog will do with dirt when they're digging). 

Facts About Horses, That You Never Knew ... Probably

Having a horse, inspired me to tell you about them.

Horses are mammals. They are social animals that usually live in herds of twenty or more, in the wild. They usually give birth to one foal but can sometimes give birth to two foals. Dams (the mother horses) wean their foals anywhere between 4-12mths of age.

Horses are herbivores. They eat mainly grass and hay. Their favourite hay is lucerne because it is sweet tasting. There are some weeds, though, that will make them sick. So when you own a horse you need to make sure that those weeds do not grow in the paddock.

There are all sorts of different breeds of horses: arabians, stock horses, quarter horses, welsh mountain ponies, shetland ponies, thoroughbred horses, standardbred horses, clydesdales, appaloosa and Australia's wild horse, the brumby.

The stock horse, quarter horse and clydesdales are all working horses, used to work on farms for rounding up cattle (q/h and s/h) or pulling carts and logs around (clydesdales.)

Then their are the sporting horses: the arabians excel in dressage and the standardbreds and thoroughbreds are used for racing, but the standardbreds pull a cart instead of having a rider on their back.

There are all different coloured horses: black, brown, chestnut, bay, paint, white, grey, buckskin, palomino and others.

Australian brumbies are in danger because people are culling them rather than taking them in and training them to be beautiful riding and cutting horses.

My horse is a brumby and she is the best horse I've ever ridden. Under saddle it feels like she's flying. She glides gracefully as if there's nothing beneath us. And on the ground she's polite, welcoming, gentle and is always trying to make things easy for me.