Our property is home to a wide range of animals and birds, mostly native, and to a range of wonderful indigenous plants.

Fauna

We are keeping a list of identified species through our Trust for Nature property management plan, and will endeavour to photograph, identify and document them. Of course, the photos of our fauna will be challenging, as many of our animal visitors are shy, nocturnal, or both! And some of them so tiny, that without a super-duper lens and a whole lot more patience they are inevitably a tiny spec in a very large photo…

Recently sighted or heard:

• Echidna
• Goanna (lace monitor)
• Wombat
• Yellow tailed black cockatoo
• Gang gang cockatoo
• Greater glider
• Boobook owl
• Skink
• Kookaburra
• Magpie
• Crimson rosella
• Scarlet robin
• Martens
• Superb fairy wren

And here are some photos of the ones we have managed to capture on camera.

The goanna was hilarious – I caught him making his way down the tree (head first!) but my movement with the camera made him freeze and he hung there for an eternity! There was no way he was going to move a muscle until I was out of the way.

The yellow tailed blacks are so hard to capture up close. My photo does not do these magnificent birds justice. They are huge and have such lovely expressive faces with their yellow cheek patches and burnished eyes. I’ll strive for better…

 

Flora

Thankfully plants are a little easier to capture – they stand still longer… But I don’t have a comprehensive list of what all of these are (hence some of the obscure image captions!).