Monday 9th December 2019. 0550 – 0655

No rain. Sun just coming up. Few clouds only to the east. No breeze. Track damp.

Nice and cool when Thomas and I set out and soon spotted the Curlew family along Bunya Street. Unable to positively identify the chick but believe it to be lying down and partly concealed by the bushes. At Allumbah Pocket the Brushtail Possum was back in the mistletoe clump near the Picnic Shelter and a Spotted Catbird flew into the Milky Pine Tree on the creek bank. I assumed it was too early for the reptiles and saw none on the first section of the walk but at the Log Jam one of the perches was occupied by a moderate sized male Eastern Water Dragon resting after his morning dip. No Turtles were seen.
A Green Ringtail Possum was roosting in No 4 of the Overhanging Bushes and I am fairly sure that this was the female with young in the pouch seen on the past 2 days. Nearby a Platypus was feeding along the far bank but the light was not conducive to good images. Saw another Platypus along the upstream side of Picnic Peninsula but working downstream and another just below the Highway Bridge.
There were numerous Curlews in the tussock grass behind the Car Park with a few White Ibis. The usual activity was observed at the Figbird commune although fewer birds were on the nest. Perhaps feeding at this hour. A final Bush Stone-curlew was in the yard of a house almost opposite mine. His eyes appeared half closed, probably because he spent most of the night wailing!