Thursday 12th September 2019. 1100 – 1155

Dry overnight. Slight shower early afternoon. Scattered cloud. Blustery wind from East. Track dry.

Quite cool as full team set out and came across 2 platypus, one each side of Platypus Bend. Both were feeding happily but were disinclined to visit our side of the creek. A third Platypus was seen close to the Overhanging Bushes but so close to the bank that he could only be viewed from some distance with his bill well into the undergrowth. A solitary turtle observed but submerged almost instantly. Nothing else seen along the Creek although the Magpie Geese and Whistling-ducks were in the same spot and could be seen from the Car Park.

Platypus. Ornithorhynchus anatinus

Platypus to left of Platypus Bend
Another view of same animal
Platypus to right of Platypus bend.
Another view of same animal. All of these images are more for artistic merit than serious observation.
Platypus 3 near the Overhanging Bushes getting stuck into the undergrowth.

Magpie Geese. Anseranus semipalmata + Plumed Whistling-duck Dendrocigna eytoni

As viewed from Car Park