Wednesday 22nd June 2022. 1100 – 1220hrs

Weather

4.5 mm of rain in the gauge. Overcast with intermittent light drizzle. Track damp. No standing water. Water level steady. Moon – 3rd Quarter +1day

Wildlife Report

Set off this morning after home chores, rather late and in light drizzle.
The walk commenced rather dull and in keeping with the weather and I saw nothing of note until I reached The Log Jam.
There I spotted a small juvenile Saw-shelled Turtle occupying one of the logs above water and a few metres on a much larger Turtle was lying in the shallows with it’s head exposed.
Nothing more was seen until the clump of Lomandra just below the Highway Bridge where a juvenile Golden Orb-weaver Spider and a red morph of the same species were waiting to be photographed.
Beneath the Bridge a solitary Large-footed Fishing Bat was roosting with a few more at the extremes of visibility.
At Nick’s Camping Area the two Bush Stone-curlews were both seen but not close enough together to be included in the same shot.
A Masked Lapwing was snapped as I returned across the paddock.
The young male Lumholtz’s Tree Kangaroo was in one of the trees on the East Bank and was shown to several tourists who happened to be around. He was high in the foliage with his face mostly obscured and the images obtained were only of average quality.
The juvenile Brushtail Possum was visible in the top of the hollow tree and in the nearby Fig Tree “Tatty” the Coppery Brushtail was showing only a little more of herself.
Several Rainbow Bee-eaters were seen along Bunya Street and in my garden where they were mounting a concerted attack on my bees.