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Content warning: Quolls! CW for carnivorous behaviour

#AustralianWildlife #quoll #easternquoll

I was going to go down to the workshop over lunch, but it seems my resident Pink-Tongued Lizard has other ideas.

I didn’t want to disturb him, so no workshop time over lunch.

#AustralianWildlife #lizard #PinkTonguedSkink
#AustralianWildlife #lizard #PinkTonguedSkink

Our friendly magpie was back today, foraging for worms and bugs in the backyard, with a new friend, a Pied Currawong.

They seemed to get along ok together.

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A Pied Currawong poses on top of my pizza oven. A mostly black, medium size bird that resembles a Magpie or Corvid. Long pointy strong beak, yellow beady eyes, white patches on the wings, tail and rump.
Australian Magpie, walking up a small granite rock. This medium sized bird is mostly black, with larger white patches on the neck and rump, and smaller patches on the wings. It has a light grey pointy beak, and brown eyes.
Australian Magpie, eating a worm it has just caught. This medium sized bird is mostly black, with larger white patches on the neck and rump, and smaller patches on the wings. It has a light grey pointy beak, and brown eyes.
A Pied Currawong poses on top of my pizza oven. A mostly black, medium size bird that resembles a Magpie or Corvid. Long pointy strong beak, yellow beady eyes, white patches on the wings, tail and rump.
#photo #bird #AustralianWildlife #nature #AustralianMagpie #PiedCurrawong

We’ve been visited by a very tame magpie. He seems to like peanuts (chopped) but not birdseed. Technically I should feed him mealworms, or earthworms but I don’t have any handy (funny that).

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#photo #bird #AustralianWildlife #iPhone

Met some grey kangaroos this morning just outside Mulligan’s Flat while we were scoping out where to go tonight for our twilight wildlife tour.

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Two grey kangaroos on the grass outside the Mulligan’s Flat fence. The nearer one is standing upright while the one in the middle of the photo is laying on its side. Both are looking at the camera.
Three grey kangaroos in the foreground and two more behind the fence further away.
#AustralianWildlife #Marsupial #macropod

This video is exactly what it says on the box, and is glorious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzfFItqjEis

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Want to see a quokka eat a leaf?

It's a quokka eating a leaf.
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#AustralianWildlife

Content warning: Injury

#AustralianWildlife #possum

Oh, pretty excited, the frogs decided I weren't a threat and called for me while I was filming!

https://youtu.be/UkKBZVFDEUM

Video is shaky (handheld while kneeling in a puddle) and the light flickers 'cause it was just a cheap LED torch, but I still got a call on video. πŸ˜€

#frog #RedEyedTreefrog #Nature #AustralianWildlife #video

Red EyedTreefrog calling

Sorry about the flickering light, it was a small LED torch and clearly the refresh rate is such that it flickrs when filmed. Also, the video is shaky because...
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#video #AustralianWildlife #nature #frog #RedEyedTreeFrog

Content warning: Snake - pretty, but venomous.

#photo #AustralianWildlife #nature #snake #snek #SmallEyedSnake

Oooh lookit! I found another #Quoll #video online:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyQHV0oMUUE

#AustralianWildlife #EasternQuoll #marsupial

Tasmanian quoll

A Tasmanian marsupial quoll, normally nocturnal, who is a frequent visitor to Blackstone during the day and night. Colloquially called native cats, their fur...
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#video #AustralianWildlife #Marsupial #quoll #easternquoll

Because there's always room for one more Quoll video:

https://youtu.be/rYdNG_MWy8g

#EasternQuoll #AustralianWildlife

Cute Overload....Baby Quoll

Dasy, an eastern quoll was orphaned at a very young age. Now in the hands of his foster mum it seems like the cute little fella has landed on his feet.
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#AustralianWildlife #easternquoll

Look at this glorious friend.

A Red-eyed Treefrog (Litoria Chloris). One of about 3 - 4 spotted in my backyard in the rain, calling away happily.

#frog #AustralianWildlife #RedEyedTreeFrog #nature #photo
#photo #AustralianWildlife #nature #frog #RedEyedTreeFrog

BirdLife Australia is releasing an album of threatened bird calls.

https://songsofdisappearance.com

#AustralianWildlife #bird

Songs of Disappearance

Send our threatened birds soaring into the charts!
Songs of Disappearance
#bird #AustralianWildlife

Brushtail Possum on the fly screen.

#AustralianWildlife #marsupial #BrushtailPossum
#AustralianWildlife #Marsupial #BrushtailPossum

Did you know Bin Chickens can swim???
I didn’t, until I saw this mad lad today.
#AustralianWildlife #video #binChicken #bird
#video #bird #AustralianWildlife #binchicken

There needs to be more #Quoll videos in the fediverse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dri9f79viM

#AustralianWildlife

Clucking Quoll

This is our Spotted Tailed Quoll Kaoota. She is calling for a mate, this behaviour is referred to as clicking or clucking.
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#AustralianWildlife #quoll

Hand feeding a juvenile male King Parrot πŸ˜€

https://youtu.be/vMSd7C3Pq-o

#video #bird #AustralianWildlife

Hand feeding a juvenile male King Parrot

This wee chap has overcome his wariness and happily sits on my hand to have some seed.
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#video #bird #AustralianWildlife

New King Parrot friend is now eating from my hand, much to the consternation of the cockatoos.
#bird #KingParrot #AustralianWildlife
#bird #AustralianWildlife #KingParrot

Spotted a little Ringtail possum while doing my #AussieBirdCount today. It was being hassled by 5 Noisy Miners.

#iphone #AustralianWildlife #RingtailPossum #marsupial
#AustralianWildlife #Marsupial #iPhone #AussieBirdCount #RingtailPossum

When we were staying in the Daintree, on two nights we dined at the restaurant attached to the Daintree Eco-Lodge. The food was delicious (but on the higher price side), but more importantly there were frogs in the and around the large pond next to the dining area. They had this peculiar call, which I sent to the FrogID team (using their app) and they identified it as Papurana daemeli: https://www.frogid.net.au/frogs/papurana-daemeli

#AustralianWildlife #frog #sound #WoodFrog

Papurana daemeli

A large species of frog reaching up to 8 cm in body length. It has a brown, dark brown or bronze back, with a distinct brown stripe from the tip of the snout to the lower back that divides the back from the side, sometimes clearly separating the diff…
www.frogid.net.au
#AustralianWildlife #frog #sound #WoodFrog

Whales were seen!

We found three pods of whales, most just a mother and calf, but one pod contained mother, calf and an escort.

They were all fairly placid, no breaches or jumps, but still cool to see these huge animals relatively close (closer than the shore anyway).

#whale #HumpbackWhale #AustralianWildlife
#AustralianWildlife #whale #humpbackwhale

Another new bird! A Great Bowerbird, spotted in Chillagoe. The male (with the pink crest) was displaying for three females in the hope of mating. He was ultimately unsuccessful on this attempt, but I’m sure he gave it another go after we left.

#bird #photo #nature #AustralianWildlife #GreatBowerbird
#photo #bird #AustralianWildlife #nature #GreatBowerbird

Went back to the Yungaburra platypus’ this evening. It was dark, so this iphone #video is grainy. #monotreme #platypus #AustralianWildlife
#video #AustralianWildlife #monotreme #platypus

Not the best photos, since he was off the track and hidden in the undergrowth, but here is the Tooth-billed Bowerbird, which also only lives on and around the Atherton Tablelands. I have a sound recording of his call too, which I'll post when I can get it off the phone.

#bird #photo #nature #ToothBilledBowerbird #AustralianWildlife
#photo #bird #AustralianWildlife #nature #ToothBilledBowerbird

After hearing them all over the Daintree Rainforest and Atherton Tablelands, I finally saw a Victoria's Riflebird. This is a female (I heard the male, but it wasn't coming down from the tree tops).

These birds only live around this area (Atherton -> Daintree) and are one of three Qld species of Riflebirds.

#bird #photo #AustralianWildlife #nature #VictoriasRiflebird
#photo #bird #AustralianWildlife #nature #VictoriasRiflebird

I also found a Brown-capped Emerald-Dove (well two of them actually) along the same stream the platypus was in.

#bird #photo #nature #AustralianWildlife #BrownCappedEmeraldDove
#photo #bird #AustralianWildlife #nature #BrownCappedEmeraldDove

A short 4 sec #video of one of the platypus. They're quite small, and don't always stay surfaced for long.

#Platypus #AustralianWildlife
#video #AustralianWildlife #platypus

Spotted two wee platypus this morning after leaving Hastie's Swamp (and heading to Yungaburra).

#photo #nature #monotreme #Platypus #AustralianWildlife
#photo #AustralianWildlife #nature #monotreme #platypus

More cuteness! Mareeba Rock Wallabies. These are fairly small kangaroos (about knee height), very soft, and adorable.

Spotted at Granite Gorge, Mareeba.

#AustralianWildlife #macropod #marsupial #MareebaRockWallaby #photo #nature
#photo #AustralianWildlife #Marsupial #nature #macropod #MareebaRockWallaby

Also, another new bird for me, the Macleay’s Honeyeater. This bird only occurs on the Atherton Tablelands.

#bird #photo #AustralianWildlife #MacleaysHoneyeater #nature
#photo #bird #AustralianWildlife #nature #MacleaysHoneyeater

While killing time before lunch today in Mareeba we found (and patted!) some Mareeba Rock Wallabies. Big camera shots to come but here are the iPhone shots.
#australianwildlife #marsupial #macropod
#AustralianWildlife #Marsupial #macropod

Took some finding, but I found a Golden Bowerbird (and bower). These guys only occur in a small part of far north Qld and only above 900m elevation.

#bird #photo #nature #AustralianWildlife #GoldenBowerbird
#photo #bird #AustralianWildlife #nature #GoldenBowerbird

Behold! Cuteness overload.

A Red-legged Pademelon. These tiny fellows are about the size of a rabbit.

#AustralianWildlife #photo #nature #RedLeggedPademelon #macropod #marsupial
#photo #AustralianWildlife #Marsupial #nature #macropod #RedLeggedPademelon

A rescued Eclectus Parrot (female). #iPhone #photo #nature #AustralianWildlife #eclectusParrot
#photo #AustralianWildlife #nature #iPhone #eclectusParrot

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