Wildlife Seen on Your Last Walk?

[ULWalkingPhil]

I was fine. I cant say the same for the few young woman walking behind me.

[ULWalkingPhil]

I managed to pose with some of these creatures and grabbed a few snapshots. Some strange looks I was getting.

[Happy Pirate]

I was fine. I cant say the same for the few young woman walking behind me.

I like the costume tho'
Was this part of Zombie Walk or something?
In Brizzie?
Steve

[ULWalkingPhil]

I was fine. I cant say the same for the few young woman walking behind me.

I like the costume tho'
Was this part of Zombie Walk or something?
In Brizzie?
Steve

Fright Night at Movie World.

I loved it, I went through the mazes 7 times, was so funny.

[Happy Pirate]

Did I ever Mention I saw a Wombat swimming in a Tarn on the Tarn Shelf?



I mighta said so before.
Bloweded me away; guess other folks musta've seened it before
Steve

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[Happy Pirate]

Just to get back to wildlife.....

[ofuros]

On the back road to Guy Fawkes N.P, NSW.......

[Onestepmore]

On Wednesday I went for a little solo walk in the Southern Colong section of The Greater Blue Mts NP along Little River. At the junction with Blue Gum creek there is a causeway. The waters are crystal clear. I ate my lunch on a rock, bare feet dangling in the cool water. I spent way too much time watching a snake necked tortoise happily poodling around with his smiley face, gobbling up taddies. Passed a couple of lace monitors and the ever present red belly black on the way back home.

[farefam]

Quietly resting beside the creek at the east end of New Harbour and then having a spotted quoll come to within a metre of me before it was startled.
Admiring the eagles soaring closely around the summit of Little Horn as they decided whether I was worth a bite.
A wombat shuffling along his pad beside the Overland Track on the Windemere Plains; all the while making a breathing sound that was just like a racing horse.
Viewing several platypus from my sea kayak on the Gordon River at Limekiln Reach.
Spent about 10 minutes one day playing with a juvenile echidna on a track on South Bruny. The little fella was determined to keep moving along that track whether or not my boots were in his way.
Several unwelcome tent-damaging night time encounters with the notorious decendants of Black Pete at Pine Valley and Eagle Creek Camp.
A most unexpected head high encounter with a large tiger snake dozing up in the scrub whilst descending down through the cliffs to sea level near Perdition Ponds.
Being suddenly scared witless by a standing, hissing tiger snake near Perched Lake.
A rare daylight encounter with a Tassie Devil whilst sitting in my car on a forestry track near Lake Rowallen (he promptly turned tail when I wound my window down).
I'm not really a wildlife spotter (I go walking for the scenery and the quiet), but these are a few of the more memorable encounters that come to mind.

[ofuros]

You wouldn't give it a second glance.......

Ta Daaa !

Anyone know the name of this vibrant insect ?

Spicers Gap, Qld....yesterday.

[Onestepmore]

That is one cool insect!

[ofuros]

Yes, he's a colourful little bugger......onestepmore.

[north-north-west]

They're Mountain Crickets, aren't they?

[GPSGuided]

They're Mountain Crickets, aren't they?

Without a few old latin syllables in the name, we are not getting very far. I couldn't find anything related on Google.

[ofuros]

Just googled your reply...north-north-west, your spot on.
It's a female Mountain Katydid (Acripeza reticulata) or mountain grasshopper.
Thanks...another small mystery solved.

.....via tapatalk.

[ofuros]

Thanks for your effort GPSGuided.

[GPSGuided]

Good Googling Ofuros! I searched "Mountain Cricket" but couldn't see anything similar. Didn't think lateral enough to include "grasshopper".
http://www.brisbaneinsects.com/brisbane ... atydid.htm

[north-north-west]

They're pretty widespread critters, seen 'em from Ben Lomond to the Snowies. First time was a shock, I must admit. Thought I was hallucinating.

[simonm]

I snapped this one today on the walk out of Walls of Jerusalem - he put on a great little show.

[Tortoise]

3 at Ben Lomond

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[simonm]

They must come in 3's as I saw 2 more on the way out.

Great photo by the way.

[headwerkn]

On the last walk we saw some very large wallabies half covered in snow. Stared at each other for about a minute in a blizzard, thinking how stupid we all were for hanging out in that kind of weather.

I live in the country on a farm neighbouring state forest so sighting 'roo, echidnas, wombats, cockatoos, possums, snakes, quolls and so forth is a daily occurance for us. Also see a lot of platypus (had one in our dam several months back) though usually when fishing, which is when we DON'T want to see 'em!

About the only thing that really gets my heart racing with excitment these days is sighting fallow deer out in the highlands. I know that's kinda lame because they're not a native species, but they have a real majesty and grace about them. And they're tasty too

Cheers, Ben.

[Dolerite Walker]

On the track during the return trip from Kelly Basin, what looked from a distance like a wallaby started running towards us. We stood still and a spotted quoll came within two metres before realising we were there and veered off and up the bank. A previous very close encounter one hot afternoon with a quoll at Lake Vera led me to believe that it was just getting old and therefore less aware but this second episode suggests that they don't have good eyesight, at least during the day. Another great experience at close range was on the Shadow Lake track - at the edge of a stream a platypus busily rummaging around for food within one metre - not an easy animal to get a really good look at.

[MickyB]

Saw a few Otway Black Snails yesterday. I have only ever seen one previously.

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Also saw a couple of fox cubs. It was the seventh fox I have seen around the state this week.

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[ofuros]

Sleepy head.....resting peacefully in a fork of a gum tree.
MT Alphen summit, behind Spicers Peak campground, this morning.

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[ofuros]

Lastly, one from last weekend.....

Heard some strange, wild pig sounding grunts all throughout the night, so I had a
restless nights sleep, nightmarish dreams of a bushwalker, trapped in a hammock, being gorged to death by wild pigs didn't help.
Then I heard the same noises again the next morning, so I stealthily investigated...turned out to be.........a cuddly koala !

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[Pteropus]

...a cuddly koala !

Cuddly...until they hold on tight with their claws of steel and their teeth like clamps
Where was that by the way?

[ofuros]

At the base of Mt May, Qld, Pteropus.....yep, they may look cuddly wuddly, but those claws & teeth could do an awful lot of damage.

[puredingo]

This wasn't a bushwalking sighting but driving through Nowra on Friday I seen the BIGGEST roo I've ever seen dead on the side of the road. It looked like a big Red in size but was obviously an Eastern grey. The strange thing was that it had be decapitated, which makes me think it was shot rather than hit...Do people drive around suburbia with loaded rifles?, other than punchbowl of course....

[Drifting]

Of- that was one gorgeous python!