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The first of this season’s Pied Imperial-pigeon counts on North Brook island – the 51st year of this remarkable survey – was held on 27 October and it was good to hear the total was a healthy 19,023. When I boarded … Continue reading
The above collection of gorgeous black flying-fox pups were among twenty rescued from Dan Gleeson Gardens by wildlife carers on the morning of November 4th. All had been found under or near the creche tree: a large fig away from … Continue reading
At just 20 minutes drive down the highway the Mount Elliot section of Cape Bowling Green National Park is, for most of us, the easiest national park to access – so four years after our last branch trip, it was … Continue reading
WHAT’S COMING UP? October 17-23rd is the Aussie Backyard Bird Count, a project of BirdLife Australia. All you need is to find 20 minutes during that week and go out into your backyard, nearby park or other birdie site and … Continue reading
These wonderful photographs were taken by JCU researcher Dr Isabel Beasley while observing a herd of 20 dugongs, some with newborn calves, feeding in Hinchinbrook’s Missionary Bay. The dugongs appeared while Dr Beasley and rangers from the Girringun Aboriginal Corporation were conducting an annual … Continue reading
It was the Palmer River gold-rush in the 1870s that led to the ‘opening up’ of Cape York first to gold-seekers and then to the pastoralists who established large cattle stations and began the dispossession of the Peninsula’s indigenous peoples. … Continue reading
For the third consecutive year we enjoyed a wonderful afternoon discovering life between the tides with expert marine biologist Dr John Collins who, after nearly 50 years digging around our shorelines, probably knows this habitat even better than the back … Continue reading
Algae Crustaceans (cont’d) ?Jania sp. Atergatus floridus – type of mud crab Udotea flabellum Squilla sp. (order Stomatopoda) Halimeda opuntia Echinoderms Caulerpa taxifola Arachnoides placenta – sand dollar Angiosperms brittle star (order Ophiuroidea) Halodule uninervis sea grass Gastropods Halophila ovalis sea … Continue reading
WHAT’S COMING UP? Koels and coucals are calling, curlews and plovers have fluffy chicks scampering around them on the river bank and elsewhere, black flying-fox pups will soon be peeping out from under their mothers’ wings and last night it … Continue reading
August’s monthly excursion took us back to Paradise Lagoon, which we visited just over two years ago (see report here) and further upstream. A much smaller group than last month, we met at the Paluma Range turn-off and drove in convoy past … Continue reading