Weather
No rain in the gauge. Sunny with hardly a cloud in the sky. Light variable breeze. track dry. Water level low. Two days after New Moon.
Wildlife Report
After my last outing today was almost bound to be a disappointment although there is always something to see and I come home with a few photos.
I could find nothing at the entrance to Allumbah Pocket although at the Picnic Shelter I met a photographer from Malanda who had seen a Green Ringtail Possum heading up into the canopy. He also pointed out a lone male GRP just along the path to the storage hut which I duly photographed.
I also saw a Pale-yellow Robin in the tree next to the Suspension Bridge.
At Horseshoe Rocks I photographed and Eastern Water Dragon on one of the skyline rocks.
A few moments later a small Platypus came swimming downstream, diving intermittently but not pausing on the surface. I fired off a couple of shots without much success.
A solitary Saw-shelled Turtle was on the sloping tree trunk at Snodgrass’s Pool.
Nothing then until the Log Jam where the first thing I noticed was a Platypus foraging busily along the far bank. It soon moved across the pool to visit myself and a lady who had been waiting patiently on the bench seat which has recently been provided. It spent several minutes diving around some of the submerged logs and I obtained a number of pics.
Three Saw-shelled Turtles were posing on the logs and they were also recorded.
At Platys Pool a very small Water Dragon was spotted on the far bank.
While crossing the Foot Bridge I spotted a Spectacled Monarch foraging for insects and some images of it completed the sightings for the day.
Green Ringtail Possum. Pseudochirops archeri
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Pale-yellow Robin. Tregellasia capito
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Eastern Water Dragon. Physignathus lesueurii
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Platypus. Ornithorhynchus anatinus
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Saw-shelled Turtle. Elseya latisternum
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Spectacled Monarch. Symposiachrus trivirgatus
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