Wednesday 15th January 2020. 0850 – 0950

16 mm or rain in gauge. Sunny with moderate cover of cumulus clouds. No breeze. Track damp.

After crossing Lloyd’s Suspension Bridge spotted a Green Ringtail Possum in the tree just to the right (downstream) of the bridge cables. Very difficult to distinguish through dense foliage but reviewing the image clearly shows a small possum on the back of another which has GRT stripes. My conclusion is that this is the first Mum of the season with her offspring which I haven’t seen for some weeks.
After checking The Other Side saw a large male Eastern Water Dragon which ran from the upper level path under the fence. Don’t often see them on flat ground and was interested to see him running with head and front legs up and tail horizontal above the ground just like other large lizards. Also saw another male Dragon at the other end of the upper level but this one did not move a muscle.
Found White Spot, the Green Ringtail Possum, but with some difficulty as she had gone up into the foliage in her regular tree. Couldn’t see a sign of joey but guess he was tucked in somewhere.
Red Roarer Cicadas were very noisy today with many to be seen quite close to the ground. Calls of other cicadas also heard and one photographed but id being researched at present.
The Christmas Beetles and Flower Scarabs are still very active and were seen and photographed again.
At the Log Jam, three Saw-shelled Turtles were posing and obviously wanted to be photographed.
No platypus seen today but I suppose you can’t have everything!
Behind the Car Park I photographed the pair of Bush Stone-curlews at Nick’s Camping Area and walked across for a shot of the Magpie Geese. As I pressed the shutter, some kind soul slammed his car door! The results were quite interesting.