Sunday 29th December 2019. 0740 – 0845

3.5 ml rain since yesterday. Overcast. Drizzle. Light breeze from SE. Track moist. Few small puddles.

Spotted a Bush Stone-curlew along Bunya Street this morning but nothing at Allumbah Pocket. Glimpsed an Agile Wallaby heading into the bush when leaving ” The Other Side”.
A small Eastern Water Dragon was already on the rocks close to the Memorial Bench and the Green Ringtail Possum seen yesterday was in the same spot.
Had moved on a few metres and was photographing another Water Dragon when we met a couple from Auckland so took them back to see the Possum having reassured them that it was not the species that the Kiwis have in plague proportions.
Resumed the walk until meeting a couple from Essex, England and when I went to show them an image of the Possum was unable to do so because the memory card was incorrectly seated!
Went back to the Possum location and started again!
Replaced most of my missed photographs and this time stopped to photograph a mixed flock of Honeyeaters at Snodgrass’s Pool and then spotted a Platypus close under the bank at Platypus Bend. Took a couple of reflex shots as it went under a clump of grasses but unfortunately it never emerged or at least I didn’t see it do so!
No turtles at the Log Jam this morning apart from one taking a breath of air and in fact saw nothing else along the walk. Even the Curlews let me down today but the Figbirds were as reliable as ever and provided an excellent shot of the two well grown chicks.
On the way home a Bar-shouldered Dove was relaxing in a tree and along the path to Bunya Street a juvenile Australian Brushturkey was strutting around and exhibiting no fear at all of Thomas and myself. Lack of parental upbringing apparent!