Wildlife Seen on Your Last Walk?

[north-north-west]

Got lots of the usual suspects - echidnas, wombats, snakes, pademelons, wobblies, brushtails, ringtails, blah, blah, blah, but the one that really stunned me was a tiny little possum-like thing with a tufted tail - size of a plump mouse, but looked a lot like a glider, and definitely not an antechinus - in the bushes on the western side of the Cow, when coming back from Mesa/The Calf. I thought they were supposed to be nocturnal, but this was around 4pm on a fairly sunny day.
We were both so surprised we just froze, and then the little blighter dived for cover before I could get the camera out.

[GerryDuke]

BANDICOOT AT TASMAN'S ARCH

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Almost ran over this one in the car park at Tasman's Arch. Looks like he may have been affected by the fires in January. Saw him on 2 different days last week. No sign today.

Gerry

[Strider]

Got lots of the usual suspects - echidnas, wombats, snakes, pademelons, wobblies, brushtails, ringtails, blah, blah, blah, but the one that really stunned me was a tiny little possum-like thing with a tufted tail - size of a plump mouse, but looked a lot like a glider, and definitely not an antechinus - in the bushes on the western side of the Cow, when coming back from Mesa/The Calf. I thought they were supposed to be nocturnal, but this was around 4pm on a fairly sunny day.
We were both so surprised we just froze, and then the little blighter dived for cover before I could get the camera out.

Pygmy possum?

[north-north-west]

Size, body and head are right. This thing had a much thicker tail - tufted - than any of the photos show, however. Maybe just a freak.
But they're still supposed to be nocturnal. It had no right to be out and about, feeding, at that hour of the day. Their version of a vampire?

[Clusterpod]

There was a very interesting mix of reptiles and spiders out and about during our Easter walk on the Sullivan Rock to Monadnocks Camp section of the Bibbulmun.

Ornate crevice-dragon, Ctenophorus ornatus on Mount Cuthbert.


And an as-yet unidentified Wolf spider near camp after dark.


Lots more spiders, but I'm not sure of the level of Arachnophobia around here yet.

[Hallu]

After almost 2 years in Australia, I still haven't seen a bandicoot... Anyway, on my last trip in Tasmania, amongst the usual pademelons, wallabies and kangaroos, I've seen this Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle. Apparently they're pretty rare (less than 500 left in the wild) so I guess I was lucky.

I saw some green rosellas too, but they're pretty common. Still no luck in the snake department in Tasmania.

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[Strider]

Wedgies aren't all that uncommon to see. Bandicoots, on the other hand - I've seen less than 5 in my thirteen years in Australia.

[Hallu]

I'm not sure the eagles enjoy being called "wedgies" lol.

[Tortoise]

I'm not sure the eagles enjoy being called "wedgies" lol.

I may well be wrong, but I reckon they might have been the originals.

Wildlife seen on my last walk? A platypus!!!! After all these years in the bush, i've never seen one close up. This one (technically just after our walk, when we stopped down the road for a geocache), swam down the creek and into the ferny bank at my feet.

[corvus]

Wedgies aren't all that uncommon to see. Bandicoots, on the other hand - I've seen less than 5 in my thirteen years in Australia.

We see a Bandicoot every night on our Front Lawn (a couple of months ago she had two babies with her) she even came out in daylight a couple of weeks ago
corvus

[Stibb]

Just returned from Cape Pillar and saw all the common ones but was surprised at the large number of scorpions we saw on the new Cape Hauy track coming back in the dark. You had to watch your steps on the steps not to squash them. Never seen scorpions before in Tas.

[doogs]

On my last walk I saw over 200 wallabies, I'd estimate, and a wild dog.

[colinm]

Bandicoot (at night at Acacia Flats) and diamond python (at Perry's Lookdown.)

[troy8880]

I was at acacia flat on the weekend. We woke to quite a number of holes that had been dug by an unknown. Any ideas, bandicoot or other?

[north-north-west]

Had a very birdy weekend, the major highlight being up on the Viking while enjoying the view after setting up camp - a Peregrine buzzed past, just a metre or so off the ground and no more than 2 metres away, then landed in the nearest tree to eye me up for a minute before gliding off on the cliffline thermals. Never been so close to one before. Stunning.

[colinm]

I was at acacia flat on the weekend. We woke to quite a number of holes that had been dug by an unknown. Any ideas, bandicoot or other?

Conical holes are bandicoots, I'm told.

[stepbystep]

I was walking the dogs in the Government Hills this morning and saw a Bettong. First time I've seen one in the wild and awesome given the pretty degraded area.

[troy8880]

I was at acacia flat on the weekend. We woke to quite a number of holes that had been dug by an unknown. Any ideas, bandicoot or other?

Conical holes are bandicoots, I'm told.

They were conical. And there was heaps of them. Thanks for that.

[Stibb]

I was at acacia flat on the weekend. We woke to quite a number of holes that had been dug by an unknown. Any ideas, bandicoot or other?

Conical holes are bandicoots, I'm told.

And if they are not conical? Just "normal" holes? Echidnas? We found heaps of them around the house one morning and weren't shure as we haven't seen too many echidnas around lately.

[north-north-west]

Wombats, rabbits, dogs trying to get at rabbits . . .

[The Perambulator]

On the 6 foot track I came across 3 little piggies, than last night on Smokers trail a medium sized pig ambled away as I approached. Both times,from a distance, I thought that they were dogs.

[J M]

Camping at Wilson's prom a few years ago, I saw a wild deer on an early morning walk...which was quite unexpected! As soon as it saw me it disappeared very quickly...

[Tex]

I saw a couple of yellow footed rock wallabies while in the southern Flinders. What surprised me was they were in exactly the same spot, within 30m of the fairly busy trail, 2 days in a row.

[ULWalkingPhil]

I saw 2 red bellied black snake. One was huge and a couple brown snakes today.

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[peter-robinson]

Walking over Mt Coot-tha tonight, right at the top of the steep uphill section of the honeyeater track, a red necked wallaby (i think it was) suddenly jumped out of the dark and crossed right in front of me. It gave me a bit of a fright

Last week, on the longer flatter honeyeater trail nearby, I saw my first echidna for many years.

[Mervyn]

We were sprayed by some bombardier beetles, the spray travelled about half a metre, so it did not reach us, fortunately. South coast of NSW.

[Moondog55]

Does "Roadkill" count??

[Rob Gosford]

Wildlife Seen on Your Last Walk ?

HEAPS of SCREECHING cockatoos in the Berowra Valley NSW along the GNW

last month, heading north along the Great North Walk beside the Lane Cove River mangroves, 20 minutes north of Boronia Park ovals Hunters Hill Sydney >>>>>>>> SNAKE ! It was a red-bellied-black snake........shiny black, defined head, about 4 foot stretched length and THICK ! It came at me from the front left out of ankle high whispy grass. ALL i remember was it moved EXTREMELY quickly - this is my first encounter with ANY snake whilst bush hiking and i never realised snakes could move THAT fast ! Anyway, as it came towards me, i only had time to close my eyes, and i JUMPED 3 foot in the air screaming. I landed 5 foot further up on the single trail track, turned, and then saw it slithering off the track at high speed from underneath me down into the mangroves, to where it disapeared. I had enough time to get the camera out but it had GONE !

from what i Googled on it, apparantly they are common in the Lane Cove National Park, and are actually frightened, trying to escape when they spot a human. THEY'RE FRIGHTENED LOL ??

came across another hiker further up 10 minutes later and warned him. He said he saw a black snake on the footpath on Epping Rd the other week. He reckons they are harmless. HARMLESS LOL ?? Anyway, just keep em away from me lol !

happy (and safe) trails....

[neilmny]

They are a bit nerve rattling Rob.
Well it was your first but I doubt it will be your last.
Just keep an eye out and wear gaiters, you'll be OK.

[Rob Gosford]

Just keep an eye out and wear gaiters, you'll be OK.

was thinking more along the lines of gumboots mate