Friday 6th March 2020. 0930 – 1030

No rain in spite of thunder in late afternoon. Bright and sunny. Scattered cloud. Light breeze. Track drying.

At Allumbah Pocket, the Volunteers being assisted today by group of students from School for Field Studies, Yungaburra. As one of them has a dachshund at home, Thomas was an immediate star and loved every moment of it!
White Spot, the Green Ringtail Possum and her Joey were in their high level perch and both in a social mood presenting some excellent photo opportunities which I made the most of. Closer would have been better but you can’t have everything!
Around the bottom of the same tree two Eastern Water Dragons were on display. A much larger Dragon was on a rock in the creek but was unfortunately camera shy.
Plenty of Cicada noise and had several near misses as they urinated from their lofty roosts while feeding in the treetops. I believe it is known in polite circles as honeydew!
The remainder of the Walk was something of an anticlimax as we saw no Turtles or Platypus but along The Narrows a number of White-headed Pigeons were sitting quite unconcerned as a group of bus tourists passed beneath them.
Several groups of Bats were roosting under the highway bridge but are very difficult to photograph. I might venture down onto the mud for a better angle when it has dried out a bit,
A very handsome juvenile Water Dragon was on a rock beneath the bridge and photographed from the deck Walkway.
The Bush Stone-curlews were still having their tiff at the Car Park but I fancy that they have swapped positions!