Common

All year

Common Seasonally

Occasional sightings

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CS

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Scientific Name

Description

Mooral Crk

Our Crk

Around house

On block

1. 1. 

Very large skink?  15-20cm

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1. 2. 

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)

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1. 3. 

Tortoise

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1. 4. 

Yabby, bright blue, 30cm or so, fist size holes in ground as well

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1. 5. 

Little green Frog, 1-2 cm

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1. 6. 

Brown Frog, has thin blue streaks

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1. 7. 

Other frogs (?) croaking in our creek

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1. 8. 

Antechinus ?

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1. 9. 

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.

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1. 10. 

Cicada, very noisy (deafening) if you hear them, I tend not to.

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1. 11. 

Fire Flys – common early on summer evenings

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1. 12. 

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.

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1. 13. Anguilla australis  

Short-finned Eel, black, no obvious big fin, fin only visible at rear

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1. 14. Bellatorias major 

Land Mullet

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1. 15. Cherax cuspidatus  

The Cusped Crayfish an indeterminate colour

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1. 16. Euastacus spinifer  

Crayfish to 30cm, brownish with orange or red spots on joints

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1. 17. Hydromys chrysogaster  

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.

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1. 18. Macropus parryi 

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.

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1. 19. Morelia spilota 

Diamond Python

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1. 20. Ornithorhynchus anatinus  

Platypus (Not often seen but there are a series of nest holes)

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1. 21. Perameles nasuta 

Long-nosed Bandicoot

(though snout holes in the ground are extremely common, even at the house)

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1. 22. Petaurus australis 

Glider, Yellow-bellied – not seen, just feeding wounds in trees.

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1. 23. Phascolarctos cinereus 

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.

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1. 24. Planigale maculata 

Common Planigale (in house, common enough)

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1. 25. Pseudechis porphyriacus 

Red-ellied Black Snake

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1. 26. Pseudonaja textilis 

Eastern Brown Snake

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1. 27. Pteropus poliocephalus 

Grey-headed Flying-fox, usually flying overhead, stops by occaisionaly.

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1. 28. Trichosurus caninus  

Short-eared Possum, seen on surveillance photo at creek crossing.  Scats moderately common under large trees.

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1. 29. Varanus varius 

Lace Monitor

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1. 30. Wallabia bicolor 

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.

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