Wednesday 11th August 2021. 0940 – 1040

Weather

9 mm of rain in the gauge. Cloudy with sunny periods. Cold SE breeze. Track damp. Water level steady. Moon phase New + 3 days

Wildlife Report

Not much bird life seen along Bunya Street this morning and Allumbah Pocket was also very quiet.
At the Other Side I spotted an Emerald Dove with darker than normal plumage and a black bill suggesting that it was a juvenile.
Opposite Snodgrass’s Pool I found a fine fat Kookaburra in a tree at the upper level and took a couple of good shots.
Approaching Flood Tide Island a female Platypus was on the surface heading upstream. She was moving too fast for a decent photo so I hurried to the other end of the Island where a couple with a small boy had also spotted her and told me that she was the third that they has seen. Her behaviour was unhelpful as she immediately turned back down stream, hid under the grasses for a couple of minutes, and proceeded spasmodically in the same direction. She clearly had no intention of a photo shoot so I gave up and continued my walk.
At The Log Jam a solitary Saw-shelled Turtle was lying on a submerged log with just it’s head exposed and helpfully raised itself up a little but it was clearly too cold for further exposure.
Nothing then until the approach to the Highway Bridge where I took more photos of the Golden Orb-weaver Spider who is still in the same spot.
As I was doing this a family group of Pale Yellow Robins flew into a tree on the far bank and one stayed long enough for my to take a distant shot.
Around the Car Park I saw a Shining Bronze Cuckoo and a Rufous Whistler but neither at all cooperative.
My final shot of the day was once again the rear end of the Red Possum in the Fig Tree.