Thursday 20 June 2024 Cuttagee

 Cuttagee's entranced closed earlier in the week and filled during the next couple of high tides

Feeling stretched, supple and soothed after a yoga session, S gets ready to paddle.

Around 11.10am the last of us launched and we headed off upon glassy water, soaking in the sun and watching the bird life go by.

The resident Sea Eagles were also basking in the sun.

The silt jetties at the entrance to Cuttagee Creek took a hammering in the Coolagolite Bushfire on 3rd October last year.  Very little has regrown.

We stopped for lunch at the sunny end of the pebble beach up the creek. After which, with the occasional scraping and backtracking

we paddled up the creek until we ran out of water. 

Being chilly in the shade we did not linger and headed back down to sunlit water, espying a bit of puzzle in a dead tree on the silt jetty.  It seemed too small for a young Sea Eagle so could it be an Eastern Osprey?

A rare occurrence - glassy water paddling back down the lake. We were very happy :)

Another rare occurrence - two Greater Egrets and a third a little way back.

 

We ended the paddle about 3.20pm which allowed enough time to get home, get the fire lit and do the outside afternoon chores before the evening chill descended.

Trip Notes: See earlier entries.

Trail Camera 3 May - 22 May 2024

 After the last download I whippersnippered (strimming for the UK folks) around the pond as the waving fronds of all the weed growth triggered the camera more often than did the little critters. 

Woops, the perching pole I put up while whippersnipping might be in the wrong place. 

The wretched rat is still around, however this the only appearance it made.

Another feral and unlike the rat it was a regular visitor throughout this period.

Pied Currawong

Willy Wagtail and a Grey Shrike Thrush

The Bandicoot

The Bandicoot again, this time sharing the stage with an Eastern Grey Kangaroo

The fox again

Morning visit from two Swamp Wallabies

Golden Whistler having a chin rub

More LBBs: I think a Jackie Winter and either a Brown or Striated Thornbill

The bandicoot again

A Jackie Winter? and a soggy Yellow Faced Honeyeater

The Silver Eyes are back for winter

Yellow Robin

Swamp Wallaby food sampling

Golden Whistler, a couple of Red Browed Finches and two Superb Blue Wrens visit together

And lastly, the reason Swamp Wallabies are the bane of the serious gardener - they will try anything. During the last drought Old Wal reduced a large patch of Pelargonium Citrosum, previously untouched, to small naked stumps.