Thursday 26th September 2019. 1110 – 1210

1.5 mm of rain overnight. Patchy cloud with sunny periods. Moderate breeze. Track dry.

Cody has got his mojo back and led Thomas and I on a pleasing journey today. Started with a pair of Bush Stone-curlews along Bunya St. followed by an ostentatious Eastern Water Dragon on the rocks near Snodgrass’s Pool. While watching a Platypus approaching Platypus Bend met Heidi, a follower of this blog, with her family. She was highly impressed by the walk and very excited that she had seen a possum, of which more later. At the Log Jam a Krefft’s Short-necked Turtle who as sharing a log with a very small Turtle, possibly of the same species. At the usual Overhanging Bushes spot there as certainly a possum, but this was a juvenile Common Brushtail Possum who is not supposed to be up and about during the day although I quite often see one along the Walk. I’m afraid Heidi that this was a case of “right tree, wrong possum” but well done for spotting it anyway. At The Narrows a Pale-yellow Robin came to check me out and a few metres on a spotted something in the foliage of a high tree. An animal was was well concealed and the branches were swaying in the wind. I thought I saw the white lines of a Green Ringtail Possum’s back but the whole appeared excessively large. Fortunately the images confirm the diagnosis as there is a definite GRP hind foot on show and I wonder it was in fact a pair of possums accounting for the over all size.