Friday 3rd January 2020. 0730 – 0830

No rain. Cumulus clouds covering more than 50% of sky under a layer of high cirrus cloud. Some sunny periods. Moderate variable SE wind. Track damp, drying.

Started later than intended this morning when Thomas deigned to return from an unscheduled walkabout along the street!
Saw a Laughing Cookaburra along Bunya Street. Wasn’t laughing at me.
Met a couple of visitors at The Other Side who had just seen a Wallaby disappear into the paddock scrub and had also sighted two Platypus. Took them to see the Green Ringtail Possum who was again in the same tree and while talking met up with a young woman with two mates visiting from Melbourne . She is a Wildlife Carer with a particular interest in Possums and told me that I had made her year! Had a long chat about GRPs before continuing with the Patrol. Also saw an Eastern Water Dragon and a Barred Cuckooshrike in the same vicinity.
Very little activity in the flowering bushes today, perhaps because not so sunny and in fact not much activity along the rest of the walk. No Platypus, only one swimming Saw-shelled Turtle and no more birds.
Far fewer bird than usual in the paddock behind the Car Park although there were a few Magpie Geese and a couple of Masked Lapwings but the Bush Stone-curlew was still in Nick’s Camping Area and today had a mate. They appeared tired today perhaps after a noisy night!