Saturday 13th November. 1335 – 1500

Weather

0.5 mm only in the gauge. Overcast with thundery clouds to the West. Hot and humid. Intermittent gusty breeze. Track dry. Water level low. Moon First Quarter + 2 days

Wildlife Report

I was pleased to spot again the Bunya Street Bush Stone-curlews in one of the Creek side gardens. Only two were present but the juveniles are approaching fully grown so one might had departed.
In the trees to the North of Allumbah Pocket entrance, “Mrs Green” the Green Ringtail Possum and her joey were looking down at me from the branches where they were sitting side by side and made a beautiful picture.
While looking unsuccessfully for the regular male, I heard a bird calling from the path to the storage shed and spotted a Black-faced Monarch.
I then saw a Platypus foraging along the far bank downstream and went across the Suspension Bridge to get a better view. The range was rather long but I got a couple of reasonable images.
At The Other Side a haughty Brush Turkey in full mating plumage walked up and appeared to be telling me to get off his patch. I got the message!
At Horseshoe Rocks and the next pile of rocks along the track I photographed a number of Eastern Water Dragons and also an Eastern Water Skink.
Approaching Snodgrass’s Pool I photographed Saw-shelled Turtles on the sloping tree trunk and then found myself being observed by “Whitespot” the Green Ringtail Possum and her joey which was lying horizontally along the branch. I am glad I can stop worrying that she might have lost the young one.
At The Log Jam the usual collection of Turtles were waiting to greet me and another Platypus was foraging along the far bank. I fired off a fair number of shots with only limited success occasioned by the distance.
In the trees at the base of Log Jam Peninsula I got some photos of a Barred Cuckooshrike.
I then saw very little until the Overhanging Fig Tree where yet another Green Ringtail Possum was high in the canopy and difficult to photograph. I suspect that it was the female seen previously in the same garden with a joey as there seem to me to be too many feet in the image for a single possum!
Returning to Bunya Street I photographed a recently constructed nest which I believe to be that of a Magpie Lark.