An oak tree in the bush

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We came to live in Donnybrook, Western Australia, in 2003. Soon after we moved, we helped at a busy bee in the town. Part of the work involved tidying up under a 100-year-old oak tree at the old railway station. I pulled up 60 or 70 young seedlings and potted them up when I got home. We gave a lot away but we also planted three down in our paddock in amongst some ti-tree. We knew two had survived. Over the last week we’ve been pruning the ti-tree back from the entry road and we checked on the oaks to find them a bit overgrown with other vegetation. So today we tidied up around them too and they now have more access to sunshine and space. They are about 12 feet high. We don’t often walk the paddocks but what with driving back and forth with the prunings we’ve found the skeletons of three joey kangaroos and a young yearling which has only died in the last day or two. There are no obvious signs of injury so I don’t know what has happened to the bigger one. One of the joeys has a broken leg and it’s possible a wedge-tail eagle could have killed the others. The photo is of the oak tree. I wonder what people will think down the track when they discover two oak trees in the middle of a bush paddock.