I forgot to mention that I have plenty of possums and bandicoots in my backyard and I am more than a kilometre from the bush at Mona Vale. I have a blue tongue land other lizzard varities. Not so native though are the many rabbits that run around my bacyard and street. We also have cockatoos, magpies, ravens, laurikeets and many other native birds.
Nearby though and worth the look in the Warriewood wetlands and wetland walks you can see many native birds including some that are rare.