Monday 20th June 2022. 1305 – 1450 hrs

Weather

No rain in the gauge. Overcast morning but starting to clear around lunch time and quite sunny later. Light SE Breeze. Track dry. Water level steady. Moon Phase – Last Quarter – 21st June.

Wildlife Report

It was warming up after a cold morning and I left home without a jumper or jacket.
At Allumbah Pocket found that “Mrs Green” the Green Ringtail Possum had returned to her tree fork between the two entrances and was generous with her poses.
While checking for other Possums I spotted a Lewin’s Honeyeater begging to be photographed and was happy to oblige.
At The Other Side a Rufous Shrike Thrush was also quite obliging.
On to Snodgrass’s Pool where “Whitespot” another Ringtail Possum was in her most regular perch of this season and both she and her Joey were in good form. They enjoyed meeting a small group of visitors who seemed to appear from nowhere.
At Full Tide Island a Platypus was being photographed but vanished before I could take my turn. I surmised that she was heading downstream and located her again approaching Platypus Bend where I obtained a selection of close up shots.
Continuing along the track a Rakali had been sighted and I saw it sneaking along the far bank. I managed to get ahead of it and got one decent shot near the approach to the Log Jam.
At The Jam a very small Saw-shelled turtle perching on a log provided a nice photo.
I then had a blank patch until approaching the Highway Bridge where I photographed the Golden Orb-weaver Spiders and one of the few small groups of Large-footed Fishing Bats still present.
I was unable to locate the Bush Stone-curlews today but at the East Bank I soon located the solitary male Lumholtz’s Tree Kangaroo who was in fact socialising with his Mum and the new joey. None of them proved easy to photograph but a bit of effort and patience provided some reasonable results.
The regular Brushtail Possums were showing off in the hollow tree while “Tatty” the Coppery Brushtail was her usual antisocial self in the Fig Tree.