Saturday 28th December 2019. 0800-0900

14 mm rain since yesterday. Overcast morning with drizzle increasing to light rain at times. Light breeze. Track moist, sticky in places but only one small puddle under Highway Bridge.

Nothing at Allumbah Pocket this morning.
A Rufous Shrike-thrush was singing heartily on the hill down to the Memorial Bench and while photographing him spotted both an Eastern Water Dragon and a Green Ringtail Possum in the same vicinity so the next few minutes were quite hectic! Managed to record all and marked the sight of the possum for other visitors.
Another Dragon was seen a few metres further on.
Continued on with drizzle increasing but able to photograph a single Saw-shelled Turtle at the Log Jam and passed on the location of the possum to several small groups.
A brief glimpse of a Platypus swimming on the surface at the bend downstream of Picnic Peninsula but no worthwhile image.
At the Car Park met two Norwegian zoologists, one a Professor of Zoology at the University of Christiania formerly attended by Carl Sophus Lumholtz who first described the Tree-kangaroo which bears his name. Had an interesting conversation and advised on where to go and what to see.
Finally photographed the Figbirds in front of Nick’s Pizzeria as well as a pair of Bush Stone-curlews and another pair along Bunya Street.