Friday 3rd September. 1450 -1630

Weather

33 mm of rain. Cloudy in the morning with a few light showers but brightening with sunny periods later. Light E-SE Breeze. Track slightly damp. Water level steady. Moon phase – New Moon – 4 days

Wildlife Report

A late start today as at 3 pm I had arranged to meet Grant B, a stalwart follower of Platypus Patrol, who was visiting from Brisbane for the WE.
The trees at the entrance to Allumbah Pocket were checked without success but the Chocolate Brushtail Possum was sleeping in the Mistletoe Clump. Unfortunately neither face not joey were on view today.
As we crossed the Suspension Bridge a few Scarlet Honey Eaters were flitting through the Bottle Brushes without pausing for long enough to be photographed.
As we reached The Other Side we were overtaken by a younger nature lover who told us that he had seen two Tree Kangaroos at the Highway end of the walk.
We looked for “Scarface” at the Upper Level near Snodgrass’s Pool and he was absent but the slightly smaller female was taking the sun and duly photographed.
In the flowering Bottle Brushes just past Flood Tide Island a few Honeyeaters were again busy and less usually a Spectacled Flying Fox was roosting hear the Mistletoe Clump.
At the Log Jam several Saw-shelled turtles were posing for us and as we admired them a Platypus appeared in the pool. It was swimming at high speed on the surface and after diving in front of us it vanished downstream. I did spot it briefly as it turned the next corner of the Creek.
At Platys Pool a Green Ringtail Possum was hiding in the foliage and it was difficult to establish it’s sex. A couple who joined us there had also seen the Tree Roos.
At the base of Picnic Peninsula I photographed a female Australian King Parrot busy feeding on Privet berries and a Rufous Whistler singing his heart out in a River Oak.
In the Lomandra Clump below the Highway Bridge the Golden Orb-weaver and the Red and Black morph spiders were still in residence.
I attempted to introduce GB to the “Highwayman”, the Brushtail Possum who lives near the centre of the Bridge but although present he was totally unresponsive and refuse to acknowledge out presence. Perhaps he was trucked out!
We crossed the Highway and with considerable difficulty located a female Lumholtz’s Tree Kangaroo along with her well grown Joey who were very well concealed in the foliage. Indeed if we had not been told of their presence I doubt that we would have spotted them. We did eventually obtain some quite good shots!