Saturday 21st May 2022. 1340 – 1450 hrs

Weather

Overcast with some light drizzle early. Light southerly breeze. Track remains wet in parts with a few puddles. Water level high, steady. Moon Phase Last Quarter – 2 days

Wildlife Report

I drew a complete blank at Allumbah Pocket this afternoon but while checking out The Other Side I was told by a couple of visitors that they had just seen a Tree Kangaroo in the trees across the Creek from the Memorial Bench.
It took me several minutes to locate it but I was rewarded with some good shots of a young male Lumholtz’s Tree Kangaroo.
I continued on to Snodgrass’s Pool where I found ‘Whitespot” the Green Ringtail Possum with her joey and introduced her to a keen photographer and his wife who were passing.
A White Headed Pigeon was also seen in the trees on the other side of the track.
A few metres on a Saw-shelled Turtle was photographed as it took a breath on the surface.
A Platypus was spotted on the upstream side of Log Jam Peninsula but after a few dives it vanished and I failed to relocate it.
At Platys Pool a Saw-shelled Turtle was on the horizontal Bottlebrush trunk and another turtle was in the process of joining him.
In the clump of Lomandra near the Highway Bridge only one of the Golden Orb-weaver Spiders could be seen today.
A small juvenile Eastern Water Dragon was spotted on one of the rocks below the Bridge and a Rainbow Skink was on a rock nearby.
I visited Nick’s Camping Area and said Hi to the two Bush Stone-curlews in a typical spot.
“Tatty” The Coppery Brushtail Possum was sitting in a fork of the Fig Tree and although her face was hidden her torn ear was on show.