Flora, fauna and other animals people see whilst out driving.

[MB]

Crikey! I thought you were in charge of monitoring that whole shit show old mate!!


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[PeeBee]

Crikey! I thought you were in charge of monitoring that whole shit show old mate!!


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He was actually blocking the pathway in a very narrow alley to the carpark. As I waited for him to move, it seemed like an eternity as he tongue flicked the air and moved off into the garden. Just after the shot was taken the little Chinese chef came out for a handful of herbs and he almost had a crap on the spot as he didn't look down before reaching over the fence and his hand was headed straight for a snappy mouth. I laughed 'til it hurt, eventually he smiled and shuffled away, empty handed.

[Cuppa]

Looks to be a fair sized specimen. He wont hurt you though. Mind you I had been told that when frightened they'll climb the nearest tall thing, which could be you. We had heaps of the around up on the Dampier peninsula. None ever did that, but would sometimes stand up on their hind legs. We had names for many of them, & one even used to come into the kitchen to be fed now & then. Never felt threatened by them at all.

[PeeBee]

Looks to be a fair sized specimen. He wont hurt you though. Mind you I had been told that when frightened they'll climb the nearest tall thing, which could be you. We had heaps of the around up on the Dampier peninsula. None ever did that, but would sometimes stand up on their hind legs. We had names for many of them, & one even used to come into the kitchen to be fed now & then. Never felt threatened by them at all.

When I was here 12 yrs ago we had a couple of really large lizards at the mine site that hung around the admin and projects building. despite instructions not to feed them, people did, so when a person came withing say 10m of the lizard it would run straight at them and prop about a meter away - bloody frightening. Finally one went too far and clambered up a womans leg and tore her jeans leg and scratched her, so the enviro's captured them and relocated them to a fair distance away. At the Top camp they lived under the dongas and at 6pm would come out by the dozens looking for food as the crews arrived from the days work, wide range of colours also.

[mudnut]

I think my pic is of a Striated Thornbill, or a young Buff-rumped Thornbill.

[mudnut]

Red Browed Finches.

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That Sunbird pic is amazing. The northern Red Brows are more brightly coloured than their southern kin.

[Cuppa]

Yesterday morning. Probably the most impressive bird I have ever seen.

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More info about this rare & unique bird here.
https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildlife/2015/07/cape-york-peninsulas-palm-cockatoo/

[Rossco]

Wow that is beautiful mate very lucky. .

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[MB]

This ripper little bloke was found doing his very best to not become some avians entree tonight :-)

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[MB]

Kosciuszko ferals under relocation soon out of the National Park, quite protective was Black Beauty, I certainly wasn’t getting any closer for a selfie face ache :-)
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[Cuppa]

This ripper little bloke was found doing his very best to not become some avians entree tonight :-)

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https://youtu.be/fEeuNCHcWY0



Came across the twin of that one in our vegie garden up here in FNQ just a few days ago. Had never seen anything like it. It is the 'Saunders Case Moth' aka 'Large Bagworm' Initially the caterpillar weaves a bag of silk around it & then adds whatever is around to form a protective case. They retreat into the case to protect themselves & can close the opening at will. It was obvious that they have really good eyesight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metura_elongatus

[Cuppa]

Blue Winged Kookaburra having a bad hair day!

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[Cuppa]

Scarlet Honeyeater captured a couple of mornings ago when we were out camping in the bush & doing a bit of 4wd'ing in the mountains around Irvinebank, Qld

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[Cuppa]

Wild bee's nest (abandoned) hanging from the end of the branches of a gum tree.

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[MB]

Never knew Little Kanga’s & Lazy Kooka’s could be bestest mates :-)
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Underworld Vicious Killers :-)
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[MB]

Cheeky Redheads :-)
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[mudnut]

Went for a look see and was rewarded with seeing a cow and calf only a couple of hundred metres off the coast. Sorry about the quality of the pic.

[mudnut]

Went looking for whales but came across this little bloke in front of the only gannet colony on the mainland.

[mudnut]

No whales today, but this guy was so agile for his size.

[MB]

Looks like an awesome new Aussie-Made APPY is on the way folks:


https://algorithm.data61.csiro.au/this-ai-powered-platform-is-a-shazam-for-insect-and-snake-identification/?utm_source=CSIROSCOPE&utm_medium=BlogCTA&utm_campaign=Critterpedia

Just signed ourselves up for ‘Early Access’ once it is finally released from the Brisbane based developers Murray & Nic.

https://critterpedia.com/

Could save a life out there off-road one day [emoji106][emoji106]



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[NissanGQ4.2]

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Dinner on ice

[MB]

Have successfully bastardised a lot of great threads here tonight, my apologies :-(
Honest question though, why can’t us Australian’s have a pet Monkey Mate, would they go feral eventually like Cats if left unattended?



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[jack]

Have successfully bastardised a lot of great threads here tonight, my apologies :-(
Honest question though, why can’t us Australian’s have a pet Monkey Mate, would they go feral eventually like Cats if left unattended?



Already plenty of feral ones around, but won't make good pets. Can be seen unmasked, breaking curfews, protesting, baiting cops, chemists and Bunnings workers.
Best kept locked up where they belong.

[Cuppa]

Already plenty of feral ones around, but won't make good pets. Can be seen unmasked, breaking curfews, protesting, baiting cops, chemists and Bunnings workers.
Best kept locked up where they belong.

Yeah, they are a new 'religion', many with 'born again' zeal with all sorts of wacky conspiracy theory ideas mish mashed together. We live in an age where anti science & anti expertise is common, and where knowledge, facts & common sense are replaced with magical thinking which allows these people to believe that believing something makes it a fact. They are dangerous, a serious menace to our communities, but are validated by the rise in their online numbers who spur each other on. Quite alarming how many seemingly 'sensible' people believe the virus is fake & much more besides. Thankfully the vast majority of folk recognise them for what they are, but it doesn't stop them being a danger to us all. They are the gullible, sucked in by all the Q-anon nonsense, believing they are the real informed (woke) & trying to convince everyone else that it is the majority who are the gullible! It won't surprise me if we have some here who may choose to attack me for saying so. In the event that that occurs I wont respond, & they'll be talking to themselves.

[mudnut]

I do agree, but could we not go down the political discussion route, please.

[Cuppa]

I do agree, but could we not go down the political discussion route, please.

No Politics implied nor intended. It's a serious community safety issue.
However I do agree that even mentioning it runs a risk of divisive debate should there be any 'believers' among us, which is why I made it clear I would not be party to ongoing debate.
I do not believe the risk of 'division' should get in the way of mentioning the risk. If we had roving bands of identifiable machine gun toting killers going around killing & maiming I expect we'd all speak out & say it was not on. Saying nothing lends validity. Discussion gives it breath. It's a difficult line to walk. I say that naming the risk (as I have done) is appropriate. But no more - at least not here.

This from the USA says all that is needed

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[mudnut]

Back on track. We saw a pod of humpbacks swim past, over a 800m-1km out. The Sigma lens performed superbly in the late afternoon light.

[Plasnart]

Back on track. We saw a pod of humpbacks swim past, over a 800m-1km out. The Sigma lens performed superbly in the late afternoon light.

Nice muddy! How often do you go down for a whale squiz? Top pics mate.

[mudnut]

That is probably the tenth time we have gone looking for them this year. We happened upon this pod as soon as we got there. It is luck of the draw. A couple of weeks ago, after ages sitting there, I got cold and went home. The next day, I was talking to a guy who set up in the spot I vacated. He told me that within fifteen minutes of me leaving, he had taken magnificent pics of an orca, just fifty metres offshore.

[jack]

That is probably the tenth time we have gone looking for them this year. We happened upon this pod as soon as we got there. It is luck of the draw. A couple of weeks ago, after ages sitting there, I got cold and went home. The next day, I was talking to a guy who set up in the spot I vacated. he told me that within fifteen minutes of me leaving, he had taken magnificent pics of an orca, just fifty metres offshore.

A surfer was telling me about a pod of Orcas near Princetown that we missed by about the same time. That would have been amazing to see, definitely the luck of the draw. He’d been surfing for well over 20 years and they were the first he’d seen.

[MB]

Still too early to see them but they’re making one hell of a waking racket this morning :-)

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[Cuppa]

Still too early to see them but they’re making one hell of a waking racket this morning :-)

https://youtu.be/K-E9-IlOQMs



We get them every morning too. But only after the Bush Stone-curlews have already had their say. Full moon nights are very noisy affairs!


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[Plasnart]

A surfer was telling me about a pod of Orcas near Princetown that we missed by about the same time. That would have been amazing to see, definitely the luck of the draw. He’d been surfing for well over 20 years and they were the first he’d seen.

Yeah orcas would be a great sight! I've been lucky enough to see them once. 2 orcas off the starboard side, early morning Spirit of Tasmania a few miles out from Devonport. Amazing.

[MB]

It has finally Lockdown begun, a mate further up towards the high country base has expressed his feral concerns of ‘Planet of the Moose’
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[Plasnart]

It has finally Lockdown begun, a mate further up towards the high country base has expressed his feral concerns of ‘Planet of the Moose’
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Holy smokes! Never seen so many!!

[MB]

It is a problem brother, we’ll have to send up some Vegan whisperers to teach them dinger rollbacks first hand :-)


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[Pete49]

nothing a good rifle shot or two can't fix.

[FNQGU]

These little guys are nesting in every tree in the desert at the moment. Was amazingly noisy in the Eyre Creek area.

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[mudnut]

I heard a Tree Creeper singing so I had another go a getting a good pic. It had moved on, by the time I got the camera.

This little creature wasn't camera shy at all.

I think it is a Thornbill of some sort, but I am happy to be told otherwise.

[Cuppa]

These little guys are nesting in every tree in the desert at the moment. Was amazingly noisy in the Eyre Creek area.

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Nice pics!

[threedogs]

FNQGU i love budgies with a passion, like the young one poking its head out.
Wonder if fish stocks have gone up over this virus

[MB]

Thanking my lucky stars today, spotted a very rare ‘Rossco Nimbleous’ [emoji106][emoji106]
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A highly destructive house saving species :-)


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[Plasnart]

Thanking my lucky stars today, spotted a very rare ‘Rossco Nimbleous’ [emoji106][emoji106]
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A highly destructive house saving species :-)


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And feeds on dropbears I hear! Crazy species!!

[Rossco]

Good day for a bit of essential post storm laserlight protection. . Was a wild week in the hills . . .

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[p30better]

Good to hear people think it`s a good idea and hope photos, plus stories keep coming.

[mudnut]

I was driving in the forest at Mt Clay last weekend and found this guy in a manna gum.

[mudnut]

Sorry for the quality of the pic, as the camera is on the blink. This is a Hooded Plover near Yambuk. Their nesting habits make them very vulnerable to predators and human activities.

[MB]

I just shit a brick and my dog just pissed vertical after we dark encountered this Aggressive Tiger Rattle Snake upon final bedtime wee wee’s [emoji23]
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[PeeBee]

Is this more hillbilly speak @MB, I can't see any snake or are sticks now snakes in the new lingo?

[Rossco]

Found this poor young fella out of the hollow without quite yet earning his wings so poped him back till he's hopefully bit more ready soon. . .

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Happy again [emoji106]

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[mudnut]

That is so cute, Rossco. Had an afternoon to kill in Hamilton so I went to the Gardens and then the creek.

[Plasnart]

That is so cute, Rossco. Had an afternoon to kill in Hamilton so I went to the Gardens and then the creek.

No fine count merinos? Wot it's famous for innit? :)

[MB]

Please do speak the Queen’s tongue Plassy Mate! Not everyone is into sheep and your slang will infuriaties PeeBee Mate :-)


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[TPC]

Please do speak the Queen’s tongue Plassy Mate! Not everyone is into sheep and your slang will infuriaties PeeBee Mate :-)


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Pot calling the kettle black

[Rossco]

So found Kookie back out of the hollow the next morning but managed to have a go at flying. . . He was pretty sketchy at first but has now been getting around the block and doing well [emoji106]http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2021/01/11.jpghttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2021/01/12.jpg

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[mudski]

So found Kookie back out of the hollow the next morning but managed to have a go at flying. . . He was pretty sketchy at first but has now been getting around the block and doing well [emoji106]http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2021/01/11.jpghttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2021/01/12.jpg

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Beautiful birds they are...


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[Hodge]

So found Kookie back out of the hollow the next morning but managed to have a go at flying. . . He was pretty sketchy at first but has now been getting around the block and doing well [emoji106]http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2021/01/11.jpghttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2021/01/12.jpg

Sent from my SM-G930F using TapatalkAbsolutely beautiful mate.
I love the Kookas . We have none where we live .
It's like my #1 thing looking forward to when going away up hills/ high country etc ... Love the sound in the morning with a bunch of them around doing their thing... So majestic.

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[MB]

Hodgey Legend, you really should consider setting your short, at worst long term goals towards a nearby Tree Change Brother!
May cost you less conveniences at home and nearby but regions out there need good folk like yourself to enjoy the simples in life everyday you deserve [emoji106][emoji106]


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[mudski]

Hodgey Legend, you really should consider setting your short, at worst long term goals towards a nearby Tree Change Brother!
May cost you less conveniences at home and nearby but regions out there need good folk like yourself to enjoy the simples in life everyday you deserve [emoji106][emoji106]


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Agreed. Best thing I did was move out of Mill Park. Eltham is not my ideal living, something with more space is but its certainly full of bird life here.

Whereas at Mill Park, or MillParkistan I call it, the only bird sounds I heard was the old duck next door screaming at her kids with f@&k used in every sentence. Sooo much better here.

[mudnut]

Clearing out a gutter, and Lightning strikes real close. I don't think I have ever moved so fast in my life!!!

All the bird life took off and left about an hour ago. I shoulda taken note.

[PeeBee]

I have a lightning app Ion my phone that i use with the site lightning radar. Its been blaring all arvo but very little heard. I also have a dedicated lightning tracker i carry both on site and with me in the bush, very handy when the greater sky is not that visible

[mudnut]

This little fella popped into shot as I had a play with the camera. Some serious editing made it look reasonable.

[mudnut]

Not gunna tell you how long it took to get this shot. Bloody things are so fast, they seem to teleport between bunches of flowers.

Edit: It is a Musk Lorikeet.

[MB]

Just heard our girls scream from the nearest Hungry Jacks carpark some 30kms away [emoji23]
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[Rossco]

Oh crap, think i would do the same[emoji37]. .

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[MB]

taslucas Legend and I caught this cheeky Tasmanian Puma sleeping on Rossco’s lower hut bunk pillow early hours of yesterday morning [emoji51]
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Pink Eye complaints unfortunately never occurred [emoji23][emoji107][emoji107]


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[mudnut]

Out and about in the horizontal rain today. Found Gang Gangs in a huge blue gum, and a White-faced Heron that thought it prudent to pull its head in.

Sorry about the quality of the pics as it was very windy and there was a fence in front of the Heron.

[MB]

Started a couple of tests on some Native Fauna to see how they react to 1.0m3 of Potting Mix each to kickstart [emoji1696][emoji120]

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Left: Eucalyptus Sideroxylon Rosea (Red Ironbark)
Right: Eucalyptus Melliodora (Yellow Box/Yellow Ironbark)

We struggle up here in the old gold mining hills dead dirt to get any real natives up and away, hopefully this will work and the Great Grandkids can have some decent safe shade and or a nice bar top slab [emoji23][emoji106][emoji106]


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[mudnut]

Went for a bit of a drive around the coast. We saw a big old mangy fox, that looked remarkable like a Thylacine. No wonder people reckon they exist.

Got this shot within half an hour of getting to Cape Nelson. A Southern Right that was way off the coast, at the very edge of this cameras ability.

[BrazilianY60]

Oh crap, think i would do the same[emoji37]. .

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Me too Rossco!

[mudnut]

Me too Rossco!

In your case, it would be the highly toxic wandering spiders. The ones pictured look similar, but are the relatively harmless Hunstman spiders.

[BrazilianY60]

I would freak out even knowing that before hand, LOL.

[MB]

Me too Rossco!

Truth be known BZ Mate, Rossco is one of Southern Australia’s ‘Bestest’ Commercial Tree Top Climbing LumberJack’s [emoji106][emoji106]
Affectionately known in certain circles as ‘The Skinny Bushman’ due to his appearing adolescence yet a 40YO++ fat free stature and sound knowledge of all things Native Down Under.
Australian ‘Huntsman Spiders’ are near harmless (sometimes nippy) but can be aplenty if you accidentally disturb a nest, possibly why Rossco rightly so may be suffering Arachnophobia behind the bark and or gender dysphoria as a LumberJill but we doubt the later [emoji123][emoji123][emoji23]


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[MB]

FWIW: Genuine Arachnophobia with specific trades (workers) onsite and also unlucky/unknown timed campers experiences across Australia is real BZ Mate [emoji51][emoji23]
A ‘Tough Bushman Concreter’ mate of ours once told of his younger horror story with himself and his Plumber/Bricklayer/Trucker mates and their annual Blokes weekend away lighting their long weekend continuous hoped fire at the base of a dead half standing hardwood tree on our Mighty Murray Border River.
As the story goes, within minutes of ignition, hundreds, if not thousands of the ‘Nippy Huntsman Variants’ flowed out of the hollow stump and sent some of Australia’s most hardened tradesmen squealing into the river for safety.
Car doors all left open back on dry land and our old concreter mate still jumps to this day if you lower your sunscreen visor whilst he is a passenger [emoji887] [emoji887][emoji887][emoji887][emoji887][emoji887][emoji887][emoji887][emoji887][emoji887][emoji887][emoji887][emoji887][emoji887][emoji887][emoji887][emoji887][emoji887][emoji887][emoji887][emoji887][emoji887][emoji887][emoji887][emoji887][emoji887][emoji887][emoji887][emoji887][emoji887][emoji887][emoji887][emoji23]


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[mudnut]

When you're a split second too late.

[Avo]

It's a snake.... oh it's a snake.....mushroom mushroom
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[mudnut]

The above pic I posted shows a freak of nature, folks. There is a concave face to the rocks at Cape Nelson which reflect the occasional wave back to one point. If another incoming wave hits the rock shelf at just the right moment, even on a calm day, a gush of water spews skyward.

[MB]

We should’ve stayed out in the desert for another week, motored straight back into an SA lockdown too now dammit [emoji2959]

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Aint nothing like a hot sunrise private Goby to lift one’s spirits [emoji23]

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[Avo]

Fuck when ya said goby maybe yes wobbled for a bit

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[mudnut]

Mrs mudsane and I went driving along the coast. We watched the Surrey River outflow for a while, then spotted a couple of whales 300 to 400 metres off the beach. They were very active, but the wind was whipping the top off the surf. The resulting mist kept stuffing up the focus, so I only got a few tame pics.

[MB]

Went searching for our last counted dangerously missing kiddy safe Shiny Tek-Screw, found it, can youz ? [emoji23]

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[MB]

We smashed job #1 earlier than expected Sunday morning so treated us to an afternoon at Nitmiluk National Park (Katherine Gorge) River cruise before heading south again today for job #2, well worth it Folks, a Kiddies must see once all this covid caper is finally over for all [emoji1696][emoji120][emoji106][emoji106]

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[MB]

Mythbusted…..attempted that Devil raising handshake posture to no avail down at Daly Waters again:

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Cartage hay on-site seems to work betterer for greedy little pub fighting mates [emoji23]

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[mudski]

I’m very envious mate. My life would be complete to live out that way. Even just being out there working . Hopefully in my next lifetime I can live a nomadic life or do what I dream. Keep the pics coming…


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[MB]

Are you any good at fixing broken Marbles Mr Mark Mate? [emoji23]

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Plenty of work in the NT for you Brother [emoji106][emoji106]


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[MB]

Unfortunately customers jobsite #2 was a complete cock up found, we’ll have to fly back up at a later date and hire vehicles/tooling when they’re ready again.
Heading home to Mexico mountain home finally with a quick few happy to do rock circumnavigation inspections earlier today [emoji106][emoji106]

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[PeeBee]

Wife and I were there at the rock the day they closed it for climbing. It was packed with people getting in for their last chance to legally climb it. We didn't though, opted for the segway trip around the base. Bloody big stone it is.,

[MB]

Segways were still there for hire on the south side carpark and bicycles for hire too at the Cultural centre main carpark Philstar [emoji106][emoji106]
I once climbed it in the late 80’s on a high school camp and do remember a heap of other wankers graffiti up there and even toilet paper strewn behind sneaky disgusting tourists potty outcrops atop [emoji2959]


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[MB]

A couple of days ago photographed up Kings Canyon way, back home finally through the Vic bread basket country now:

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Spinifex Pigeon up there pretending he/me can’t see each other from my massive 1.0 LM away icrapple phoney lense [emoji23]

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As much as I truly appreciate all beaut creatures, great and small, thinking in my next buddhaist life I wanna come back as a geologist…..cool stuff to hopefully learn I reckon, it’s sedimentary I think my dear watson [emoji368][emoji1998][emoji106][emoji106]


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[Plasnart]

A couple of days ago photographed up Kings Canyon way, back home finally through the Vic bread basket country now:

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Spinifex Pigeon up there pretending he/me can’t see each other from my massive 1.0 LM away icrapple phoney lense [emoji23]

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As much as I truly appreciate all beaut creatures, great and small, thinking in my next buddhaist life I wanna come back as a geologist…..cool stuff to hopefully learn I reckon, it’s sedimentary I think my dear watson [emoji368][emoji1998][emoji106][emoji106]


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You got rocks in ya head mate! Haha lol.

If by any chance you pass through Birchip in our great bread basket mate, be sure to drop into the bakery for a vanilla slice. Yes I know all the bakeries say they have the best vanilla slice, but be assured you'll want to eat a Birchip Bakery vanilla slice in a very private space they are that good!

[MB]

The Rainbow [emoji304] Serpent [emoji216] has spoken…….here lies your Golden Hills Nugget [emoji1696][emoji23]
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[MB]

Stupid snake [emoji35]

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I’m over chasing Leprechaun [emoji256] dreams and religious shenanigans, time to start on conspiracy theories I’m hoping will fill up my days [emoji106][emoji106]


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[mudnut]

Now this little fella ran onto to the road and stopped just in front of us. We stopped and grabbed the camera, (Totally wrong lense fitted). I nudged his tail a few times before he flared up, but wouldn't move.

He even tried to run at me. What a display! He really didn't like it when I picked him up and put him to one side!

It was a magnificent day trip to the Lower Glenelg National Park, Nelson and back home via Swan Lake and Telegraph Rd.

To top it off, we saw a pair of wedge tailed eagles hoeing into a dead wallaby. They were very nervous so we left them to it.

[MB]

Tasmania’s West Coast……Thank You Kindly taslucas Mate [emoji106][emoji106]

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We’ll be back soon [emoji120][emoji120]


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[Cuppa]

Not often folk get one of these 'birds' landing in their backyard! Apologies for the Toyota.

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[Eatmyshortz]

A double rotor push me pull you whirly bird. Very rare but very noisy.
They sometimes eat troops or vehicles and spit at rivals at 600 rounds per minute.

[MB]

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[Cuppa]

Some may not be aware that whilst Palm Cockatoos are the impressive punk rocker drummers of the Aussie Parrot family they are an increasing rarity & officially endangered with a declining population. They mate for life & only breed when conditions are right, which is less & less thanks to human activities. With this in mind we felt privileged to get a visit from two adults & their young offspring this morning. They had circled around for a bit of a 'reccy' yesterday (Boxing day) morning & we wondered at the time if they were checking out the fruit on the recently flowered Leichardt tree, but no, it was the Beach Almonds they were interested in.

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[mudnut]

Battersbys Camp at the Lower Glenelg Nat Park, this afternoon. Gang Gangs preening just before dusk.

[mudnut]

Another snap from Battersbys. Eastern Yellow Robin.

[mudnut]

Still at Battersbys. A cheeky little White-Browed Scrubwren.

[mudnut]

You've gotta get to the Grampians Zoo and shell out for an animal experience. Mrs mudsane and I got to play with a couple of 7 month old dingoes.

One of the red pandas was sitting on a lady's lap.

Maybe next time we'll have a go at the Cheetah experience.

The Zoo isn't huge, but well worth it.

[Cuppa]

Ignore the undies. This fella dropped by for a while whilst we were in bed a few mornings ago. Photo taken through the window

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[Cremulator]

Ignore the undies. This fella dropped by for a while whilst we were in bed a few mornings ago. Photo taken through the window

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[mudnut]

The zoo has just emailed pics of our encounter. Got real close to the pups. When in the enclosure, I had to remember that they are dingoes, not just dogs. There was two staff members in with us.

[MB]

Paraphrasing BrazilianY60 Legend Mate!
“Your Dingoes are land based Placid, Speedo’s are dangerous around our swimming holes you Little Aussie Wankers”

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[MB]

Apologies BZ Brother, may have added some Artistic Licensing in there [emoji23][emoji120][emoji120]


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[BrazilianY60]

No worries, we´re in sync mate, LOL.

[Cuppa]

Sadly my camera has died. 4 consecutive tropical wet seasons is thought to have caused corrosion on the camera's motherboard, affecting the internal temperature sensor. It is now up for sale on Ebay. See Ebay Ad (https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/225045277118) & a replacement camera has been sourced.
This photo of a Pacific Baza (pronounced Bazza - as in Bazza McKenzie) or Crested Hawk is the very last shot I took with the camera. It was a long way away & photo has been heavily cropped. (900mm F6.3 1/640)

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[mudnut]

Sadly my camera has died. 4 consecutive tropical wet seasons is thought to have caused corrosion on the camera's motherboard, affecting the internal temperature sensor. It is now up for sale on Ebay. See Ebay Ad (https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/225045277118) & a replacement camera has been sourced.
This photo of a Pacific Baza (pronounced Bazza - as in Bazza McKenzie) or Crested Hawk is the very last shot I took with the camera. It was a long way away & photo has been heavily cropped. (900mm F6.3 1/640)

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No good at all. I thought you had a Pelican Case with silica to keep it dried out. Is the Sigma lens still serviceable, Cuppa?

[Cuppa]

No good at all. I thought you had a Pelican Case with silica to keep it dried out. Is the Sigma lens still serviceable, Cuppa?

I do have a Pelican case with regularly changed silica gel .......but I fell into the habit of often leaving the camera out 'ready to use'. When I left it in the case inevitably birds had gone by the time I'd pulled it out of the case & assembled the lenses.

The Sigma lens is still good. As are all the lenses.

Camera I have just bought is a full frame Sony A7III. The ASP-C (crop frame sensor) lenses fit it & I'll use them for the time being, but they only use a portion of the full frame sensor, & the effective focal length is shorter, which much of the time wont matter, but the output is only 10 Mp instead of the camera's full capability, so in a pic like above heavy cropping would see the image degraded more. It also means that whilst using crop sensor lenses I can't make use of the full frame's superior low light capability. Problem was , because of the worldwide chip shortage, Sony decided to concentrate on their full frame range & I wasn't able to source another A6500/6600 & needed a camera here which could use the lenses I have. Could have got an A6400, but for some reason it doesn't have inbuilt image stabilisation which I now consider essential. (Better still when combined with a lens that also has inbuilt image stabilisation).

I would have liked the newer A7IV as it has bird eye tracking autofocus, but couldn't justify an extra $1k just for that. As it is my wallet is still in recovery mode from the A7III body purchase! I've seen pics of birds in thick bush taken using the bird eye tracking & they have been pin sharp. Only way I can achieve that is using manual focus, & this relies on the bird staying still for long enough for me to adjust the focus, which, especially with the big Sigma can take a while.

The Sigma is the only full frame lens I have, & to be honest whilst it does the job, I am finding it to be a bit too heavy & bulky. Pointing it at a bird, all too often the shot I want is just after I've lowered the camera because my arms are aching! MrsTea has told me I can buy the Sony Gmaster 100-400 zoom lens with a x1.4 Sony teleconverter. This will give me 540mm so not too far off the Sigma, & quite a bit lighter (Also a lot more expensive! ), but I think it'll have to wait until we are back in Vic next year. For now I have to get used to the Sigma only giving me 600mm. (On a crop frame camera it gave me 900mm).

How are you finding your Sigma?

[mudnut]

Glad to read your lenses are Ok. The Sigma is far too heavy, to be honest. I can only get a couple shots off when holding the camera, especially above chest height. It also has the annoying ability to go out of focus at exactly the wrong moment. But it can also give me some fantastic results when used in conjunction with a tripod.

[Cuppa]

It also has the annoying ability to go out of focus at exactly the wrong moment.

I've found that sometimes too, usually because I've been at a distance from the subject which might change a little & take me from one distance range on the lens to another. Also using autofocus is tricky because the focal length multiplies any movement causing focus to change. I've found using the continuous autofocus (AF-C) helps a bit, but at the longer focal lengths the lens struggles to keep up with the camera. It is still a good lens for the price & as you say capable of great images, so nothing wrong with the glass. Just a beast of a lens!

[mudnut]

Looking forward to seeing the shots you get with the new camera.

[MB]

Whereabouts is Old Mate jack hiding these days, not in Orange-NSW by any chance just reading some good news [emoji438]

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Whereabouts is Old Mate jack hiding these days, not in Orange-NSW by any chance just reading some good news [emoji438]


Still around MB I do my foraging in the Otways (plenty of natural resources there - if you get my drift).

[MB]

10 -4 Jackstar [emoji106][emoji106][emoji23]


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[MB]

2 x GQ Wagons:
1 x CV Joint & 1 x Pierced Radiator we FINALLY have proof now of Extraterrestrial Minions hiding out Deeeep in Victoria’s High Country [emoji51]

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Stay Safe Folks [emoji120][emoji120][emoji3590][emoji3590][emoji106][emoji106]


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[mudnut]

A bit of action at Cape Nelson today. Three humbacks a pod of dolphins and a flock of gannets were a pleasure to watch.

They were really far away so I struggled to get a good picture.

[Cuppa]

Female Eclectus Parrot. We watched the nesting hollow, knowing she was inside. Occasionally we would hear her call - the 'bring me food' call. When some passing males answered her call she popped her head out hopefully. The hollow was at around 30 metres height.

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[MB]

We drove, then waddled into Bunnings to pick up and repotted in their carpark some ‘Northcote Pottery’ Native ‘Kangaroo Paws’ to Compliment our Matriarch’s Mud Brick’s for Her 109th Birfday Tomorrow [emoji3590][emoji3590][emoji23]

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Hopefully She’s impressed with Her Boy’s efforts when She returns home off the Grog later tonight [emoji120][emoji120]


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[PeeBee]

One of the work guys in my team was down in a creek on site where we are drilling and came across these freshwater crabs in the rapidly drying mud. Apparently, like the fish in these seasonal streams, they hide deep in the mud and come out when it rains.
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[Cuppa]

Giant Land Snail eating fungus in the rainforest last night

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[mudski]

We drove, then waddled into Bunnings to pick up and repotted in their carpark some ‘Northcote Pottery’ Native ‘Kangaroo Paws’ to Compliment our Matriarch’s Mud Brick’s for Her 109th Birfday Tomorrow [emoji3590][emoji3590][emoji23]

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Hopefully She’s impressed with Her Boy’s efforts when She returns home off the Grog later tonight [emoji120][emoji120]


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Did you say 109th! Wow! I thought my Nona did well at living by herself until 100 then was sent to god’s waiting room for the last two years of her life.


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[MB]

One of the work guys in my team was down in a creek on site where we are drilling and came across these freshwater crabs in the rapidly drying mud. Apparently, like the fish in these seasonal streams, they hide deep in the mud and come out when it rains.
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A very fortunate sighting indeed Philstar, Gullubolous Australis Mudski’s are SUPER DUPER RARE Honest Critters [emoji3590][emoji3590][emoji736][emoji736]


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[mudnut]

Out and about at a local park In the fading light, Mrs mudsane thought it was a koala at first glance. It was in a branch a couple of feet away from its family.
Getting all three in one good shot was just not on the cards.

[mudnut]

Got a usable pic of the three tawny frogmouths after much editing.

[Cuppa]

Brush-turkey northern style

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[mudnut]

This unusual visitor to Portland, a Southern Elephant Seal, is the talk of the town. As you can see by the gangway in the background the seal is bloody huge. Seeing documentaries about them doesn't give you any sort of perspective on just how large these seals get.

[rusty_nail]

Not the greatest photo, but saw this bad boy the other day driving along the beach.

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Also some has been fauna. Had to be over 20m long.

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[mudnut]

Two rats of different species found running around the property. Can anyone identify if either are native or vermin.

[Rossco]

Ratus ratus (introduced one) has a tail at least as long as its body, don't think any native ones do. From pics look like native ones but not sure what exactly. .

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[mudnut]

Swamp rats, maybe? There are just so many types of small mammals and marsupials on this continent that look similar it is a bit confusing. For twenty five years we never saw any signs of native rats. Four years ago, diggings appeared under the hedgerows, and have spread every where.

[Plasnart]

Swamp rats, maybe? There are just so many types of small mammals and marsupials on this continent that look similar it is a bit confusing. For twenty five years we never saw any signs of native rats. Four years ago, diggings appeared under the hedgerows, and have spread every where.

How did you get those photos muddy? Seems so close and they haven’t turned tail. Long zoom?

[mudnut]

They are scooting around picking up the fallen seeds from the bird feeder. They take off if they catch wind of us. The sigma 600 lens is extended at around 3/4 and I cropped the pics before uploading them.

[rusty_nail]

Seen this beautiful specimen today, unfortunately deceased although I couldn't see an obvious reason why.8674986750867518675286753

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[MB]

Absolutely Sick to the Bones of these Timber Blokes completely disrespecting Nature [emoji22][emoji22]

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Old Growth, HUG Worthy [emoji3590][emoji3590][emoji3590][emoji3590][emoji3590][emoji3590][emoji3590][emoji3590][emoji3590][emoji3590][emoji3590][emoji3590][emoji3590][emoji3590][emoji3590][emoji3590][emoji3590][emoji3590][emoji3590][emoji3590][emoji3590][emoji3590][emoji3590][emoji3590]


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Sharpening my 261 for selectively sapling letting UV into the country tomorrow, wondering if that might help [emoji848]


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Just back into Mexico tonight from northern interstate/s sustainable hardwood timber sourcing travels desperately needed thanks to our premier and his Muppets [emoji2961]

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What they’ve clearly overlooked also is that instead of merely transporting local Vic business needs (22.5T loads at a time) only 2.5hrs hauling away has now increased to 1,600km (one way) of extra diesel emissions [emoji22]
The good carbon neutral news is that the Northern sustainable coupes (as were Vic too) will now double their sizes and replanting efforts to accommodate all that Mexican casholy leaving the South [emoji51]


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[Plasnart]

Effing unbelievable. Effing muppets.

Nice sticks there mate.

[BrazilianY60]

Saw these interesting bird nests last week:

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[mudnut]

Gotta be a male tree with ball sacks like that :)

[MB]

If there is any Mexicano Hillian’s listening, we have a NEW Biodiversity Officer in the Hill’s. Nice Bloke according to McGoogle & Linkedy & has a good heart making a real difference fast [emoji736][emoji51]
An urgent postage letter for Non-Regional Native Sweeet Pittoospooo were received and acted upon already today:

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I see no havoc spread personally, any chance multiple government departments surrounding us could help keep say Easy Peasy Blackberries at bay [emoji120][emoji120][emoji23]


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[Plasnart]

If there is any Mexicano Hillian’s listening, we have a NEW Biodiversity Officer in the Hill’s. Nice Bloke according to McGoogle & Linkedy & has a good heart making a real difference fast [emoji736][emoji51]
An urgent postage letter for Non-Regional Native Sweeet Pittoospooo were received and acted upon already today:

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I see no havoc spread personally, any chance multiple government departments surrounding us could help keep say Easy Peasy Blackberries at bay [emoji120][emoji120][emoji23]


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Heysoo Kristo mate you’ll be accused by the blue/yellow combos of being a bogan 4x4 environmental vandal with such graphic depictions of vegetarian violence. You should speaka da English clear as a bellbird to transparently explain problemos a la sensationale de la vegetationali exotique.

[MB]

Finally, someone speaking our truth [emoji736][emoji23][emoji106][emoji106]


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[mudnut]

We've got a local volunteer group that get access to areas affected by Pitto, buckthorn and other pest plants. Mostly retired gents, but they certainly do a bloody good job.

Gotta get the local officer onto Ivy though. That stuff is just plain wrong!!

[PeeBee]

Heysoo Kristo mate you’ll be accused by the blue/yellow combos of being a bogan 4x4 environmental vandal with such graphic depictions of vegetarian violence. You should speaka da English clear as a bellbird to transparently explain problemos a la sensationale de la vegetationali exotique.

Great to see another convert to focusing on hydration.

[Plasnart]

Great to see another convert to focusing on hydration.

Stay off the red cordial kids.

[mudnut]

The elephant seal is back.

[Plasnart]

The elephant seal is back.

I see on the telly he’s back again muddy? Is it unusual that he’s back only 5 months after his last visit? Maybe they do 2 round trips a year from the great southern continent. Better dust off the Nikon mate and post an update!

[PeeBee]

I see on the telly he’s back again muddy? Is it unusual that he’s back only 5 months after his last visit? Maybe they do 2 round trips a year from the great southern continent. Better dust off the Nikon mate and post an update!

I think its LOOOOOOVVVVEE, he is back looking for you Muddy!!!

[mudnut]

I see on the telly he’s back again muddy? Is it unusual that he’s back only 5 months after his last visit? Maybe they do 2 round trips a year from the great southern continent. Better dust off the Nikon mate and post an update!

Not quite sure what his deal is, Plassy. The Southern Elephant seal has a huge distribution range. He might just be lost and heads back here.