Southern hemisphere unwelcome visitor
So, for anyone following along the lemon drama at Liberty Homestead... We have a 15 year old lemon tree that was planted by previous folk here after the 2009 Black Saturday bushfire disaster. Last Autumn (fall), the tree was nearly destroyed. We thought it might be a deer, they live in the forest near us and come up in the when it gets cooler. We had no proof though apart from a lemon tree reduced to a pile of twigs and one stem surviving. So, into action we swooped. I fed and nurtured the lemon tree and it came back to life with vigour. I went out to harvest my very first lemons since getting here 15 months ago (losing last year's whole crop to the invader). My 23 yo son got two trail cameras from FB marketplace for his birthday. We set them up. Well, well, suspicions validated. We caught one of our kangaroos on camera, all good, they don't damage anything. Then 'click' 'click' we got a stag on camera. Cheeky bugger looked straight at it. Being unable to shoot him here, we set up the cameras at our neighbour's house. They back directly onto the forest. We got photos of our stag, another younger stag, 6 does and they were all headed to my place. So, our neighbours are shooting them, we are getting meat from them, any entrails are being used to lure the foxes in and shoot them. We are all sharing fur from the foxes and leftovers are being ground by the local butcher to be put into our gardens.