After seeing Claudette’s echidna photos (which I missed when she posted them back in October), I decided to pluck out these echidna shots from an old album. Luckily I picked out the right one right away – else I would still be tripping down memory lane!
What’s that it the paddock?
I was married to Mr X then. The window over my kitchen sink looked out across our farm – that strip of green is on the neighbour’s stud cattle property. We ran sheep, for both fat lambs and wool. I recall seeing the ‘black thing’ ambling across the paddock. As soon as I worked out it was an echidna (or hedgehog as what I grew up calling them), I rushed for the camera.
A hedgehog!
Just ambling along
I have no idea what camera I used. It was about 1988, and I don’t think I was up to Time Magazine’s FC-100. Whatever I used before then used a film cartridge. Gee, I love digital so much.
What?
One last photo before it reached the shade
My favourite photo
I hope you enjoyed another look at an Echidna. By the way, like our platypus, the echidna is an egg-laying mammal called a monotreme. Any resemblance to the hedgehog is only superficial. If you wish to know more about their oddities, then check out the article on Wikipedia. 🙂
Christine R 
Really good shots – and so close (or did you crop?). They are such interesting little animals.
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I did get in close, Claudette, but most are cropped a little. I got down on the ground and crawled as close as I could get without alarming it.
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Well done echidna stalking Christine 🙂
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Some people are born with a silver spoon, think you were born with a camera. Great shots, such unusual little animals aren’t they. Don’t think I have ever seen one in real life.
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LOL. I was a teenager before I ever got my hands on a camera. Amazed you’ve never seen one. We had one here in the yard – twice – and it dug its way out of sight when the dogs disturbed it. Gone next morning, both times.
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The zoo here shows them in the dark, under red light, as if the bright light would shrivel them. NOW I can really tell what they look like!
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As you can see, they are not shy about light. I was miffed at the kiwi house in New Zealand – same thing, wierd lighting, but at least they are nocturnal, I think. Can’t say I’ve ever seen the echidna exhibited at all, now you mention it.
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They’re in our Koala House here–or were when I last visited, years back.
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Koalas love sleeping, so the lighting makes sense for them. Interesting.
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