The Sassafras animals of all sorts list.
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All the animals in the Sassafras Wildlife Refuge that have been identified are listed in the following table. The last update was on Monday, May 26, 2014.
Common All year | Common Seasonally | Occasional sightings | Rare |
C | CS | OS | R |
Notes
•Rare means seen once or twice a year. I also do not try to be quiet when moving around the block, I like to give snakes and others time to escape.
•Occaisional sightings means seen on and off, not frequent, eg Lace Monitors, occaisionally seen, more often big scratches on trees.
•Common Seasonally would be the Water Dragons, quite common, especially on our internal bridges. It is also common for me to see splashes of various sizes all year round in our creek as I approach, though I very rarely actually see the splasher.
•Common All year would be the Swamp Wallabies, thumping through the bush.
•Common might also mean we are part of a territory.
•There are some animals I can only identify in the vaguest ways, eg little green frogs, 1 or 2 cm long, larger brown frogs with some thin blue streaks
•Around House means seen on the ground or in the trees around the House Paddock, the bit that gets mowed.
•I know the plants a lot better, maybe because I don't have to rely on my ears and they can't hide or only come out at night.
Scientific Name | Description | Mooral Crk | Our Crk | Around house | On block | Frequency |
| Very large skink? 15-20cm |
|
| ✔ |
| CS |
| Ordinary Skink (why I don't use mulching/lifting blades on the ride on mower, skinks will survive mowing if they dive into the grass, which is always cut maximum hight) |
|
| ✔ |
| C |
| Tortoise |
| ✔ |
|
| OS |
| Yabby, bright blue, 30cm or so, fist size holes in ground as well |
| ✔ |
|
| OS |
| Little green Frog, 1-2 cm |
|
| ✔ |
| C |
| Brown Frog, has thin blue streaks |
|
| ✔ |
| C |
| Other frogs (?) croaking in our creek |
| ✔ |
|
| CS |
| Antechinus ? |
|
| ✔ | ✔ | R |
| Earthworms, about fat ball point pen size, up to 20cm long. Dig deep holes, they seem to be who make the top soil deeper, roots also follow their holes. Kookaburras haul them out like big game fishermen. |
|
| ✔ |
| OS |
| Cicada, very noisy (deafening) if you hear them, I tend not to. |
|
|
| ✔ | CS |
| Fire Flys – common early on summer evenings |
|
| ✔ | ✔ | CS |
| Bat, micro, maybe 10cm wing span, insectivores. I see them often before dark or if I'm awake before dawn flying past the bedroom window. |
|
| ✔ |
| CS |
| Short-finned Eel, black, no obvious big fin, fin only visible at rear | ✔ | ✔ |
|
| R |
Land Mullet |
|
| ✔ | ✔ | CS | |
| The Cusped Crayfish an indeterminate colour |
| ✔ |
|
|
|
| Crayfish to 30cm, brownish with orange or red spots on joints |
| ✔ |
|
| R |
| Water Rat, seen at least twice in larger ponds, maybe more often in smaller holes, something largish and possibly hairy plops into the water under rushes before I get there. |
| ✔ |
|
| OS |
Southern Angle-headed Dragon, seen in shady damp locales, usually up a tree. |
|
|
| ✔ | OS | |
| Whiptail Wallaby Very tame on other properties. Used to a be a mob of about 20+ which suddenly dissapeared, now only seen 2 or 3 at a time. |
|
| ✔ |
| R |
| Diamond Python |
|
| ✔ | ✔ | CS |
Platypus (Not often seen but there are a series of nest holes) | ✔ | ✔ |
|
| R | |
| Long-nosed Bandicoot(though snout holes in the ground are e✔tremely common, even at the house) |
|
| ✔ | ✔ | R |
Glider, Yellow-bellied – not seen, just feeding wounds in trees. |
|
|
| ✔ |
| |
Koala. Never actually seen, just scats and lots of scratches on Grey Gums, we have a lot more Tallowwood than Grey Gum. Both Plant Surveyors are quite confident we have Koala. |
|
|
| ✔ | R | |
Common Planigale (in house, common enough) |
|
| ✔ | ✔ | OS | |
Red-ellied Black Snake |
|
| ✔ | ✔ | R | |
Eastern Brown Snake |
|
|
| ✔ | R | |
Grey-headed Flying-fo✔, usually flying overhead, stops by occaisionaly. |
|
| ✔ | ✔ | CS | |
Short-eared Possum, seen on surveillance photo at creek crossing. Scats moderately common under large trees. |
|
|
| ✔ | C | |
| Lace Monitor |
|
| ✔ | ✔ | OS |
| Swamp Wallaby (evidence very common though, grazing on plants – shrubs, scats, thumpings, etc) Usually sighted during the day, 10-20 metres or so away, doesn't hurry away, will watch me for a while then have a feed then hop away. |
|
| ✔ | ✔ | C |
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