30DWC - Catch up day - Echidna visitation

Day 20: Put your music player on shuffle and write the first 3 songs that play and what your initial thought is. 

What music player? Shuffle? That's for card games isn't it? 

Day 21: Your zodiac/horoscope and whether you think it fits you

I'm a Leo. Yes!

What I really want to tell you about today: an echidna came to visit!

This little guy was in the garden again today. He visited a couple of days ago and we watched him potter about behind the house muscling under bits of bark and rocks looking for ants to eat. Today I noticed him out the front on top of this big old tree stump. It was a bit far to photograph him from inside...I took the first few of him from inside in case he noticed me heading out and scurried away. 

Luckily I moved slowly enough to get up close and see him slurping up those ants. It was so cool to sit and watch him. I couldn't resist taking a few snaps and the click of the camera alerted him to my presence. He was a bit unsure about that and made himself into a ball for protection. I sat really still and soon he decided to move to somewhere safer and climbed down from the stump. He stayed at the base of the stump for quite a while before feeling safe enough to move off through the cutting grass. 

What a little beauty he was. Is there a camera that doesn't click? I think I might need to get one! 
Hope you enjoy the pics. And doesn't the world feel like a better place when you can get outside and just sit and watch a wonder like this!

Kerry x

PS My clever son just came home from town and turned off the sounds in my camera. Problem solved!