Wednesday 23rd October 2019. 1320 – 1415

Rain yesterday and overnight 5.5 mm. Patchy cloud with intermittent sun. Moderate, cool, gusty breeze. Track slightly damp. Puddles dried up. Water level in Petersons Creek has risen 350 mm approx.

Tightened Thomas’s Harness before leaving home and it stayed on during Patrol! Noticed a Magpie Lark sitting on a very safe nest in the Police compound along Bunya Street. It is almost opposite the nest which fell from a tree a few weeks ago. Checked out the Golden Orb-weaver Spider who was busy wrapping a Cairns Birdwing Butterfly! The Brushtail Possum was in the same place today and deigning to show his face! No Water Dragons this morning but while looking for them photographed a Rufous Shrike-thrush and a Buff-banded Rail fossicking in the damp leaf mould. A Platypus midway between Platypus Bend and Log Jam Peninsula was being quite cooperative with 3 young ladies and myself, enabling me to take a few pics. Turtles were plentiful, 7 or 8 at the Log Jam and another in front of the Viewing Platform. A Green Ringtail Possum was roosting in the least popular of the Overhanging Bushes but doing her best to hide her face. Another Platypus was busy feeding along the upstream side of Picnic Peninsula.