In the evenings, we hear a lot of flapping of large wings and noises in the bloodwood eucalytpus trees nearby our veranda. The trees have been in full flowering. We discovered the noise and flapping is coming from flying foxes, a type of very large, fruit-eating bat.
The other creatures making noise on the roof are the goannas. These are large lizards and we have two of them living in our roof (and shitting on our railings!). The smallest one is about two feet long. I am not sure how they live with the snake, but they must have made a deal for their own territory. The goannas movement sounds a lot like the snake on the metal roof, except you can clearly hear the scratching of their long toenails (claws?).
Goanna peaking from the post he uses to climb up and down from the roof.
Goanna climbing back up to the roof. This one is about a meter (3 feet!) long. Check out those claws!
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