BOONOORONG

The property adjoins the Mornington Peninsula National Park in Victoria, Australia. Covering 20 hectares (50 acres), it includes a deep wet gully (approx 4 hectares) with remnant dry sclerophyll to heathy woodland (approx 6 hectares). Most of the land was cleared for cattle grazing in the 1950's. Our aim is to re-vegetate the property with indigenous species, providing habitat and support for local wildlife. This blog records our observations and documents our journey for future custodians.

Saturday, August 24, 2013

The elusive Arboreal Wallaby : rediscovered?

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Our mailbox is located some 2.5 kilometres (1.5 miles) from our home. We often walk to the box to collect our mail - the journey takes us a...
Monday, August 19, 2013

Frog Rains

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Every so often, and for no explicable reason apart from raining at the time, frogs in the pond begin to move...........en mass. After a day...
Saturday, August 3, 2013

Wallaby Flat : a week in the life : Part 2

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As mentioned in our previous blog, in the 1-1/2 hours of footage recorded recently we observed two (2) females, both with joeys in the pouc...
Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Wallaby Flat - a week in the life : Part 1

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We purchased a motion sensitive camera a while back and have been developing our skills and techniques. All too often, we seem to set the ...
Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Wallaby (Greek-style) Wrestling

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One afternoon, Janet and I were poncing about the property, checking out the plants, when Janet noticed a couple of wallabies fighting. We...
Thursday, May 16, 2013

New Camera

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Recent photographs especially in poor light (eg. early morning or late afternoon) highlighted the inadequacies of our Digital Camera, so we...
Friday, April 19, 2013

Little Critters

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We had observed Brown Antechinus (Antechinus stuartii) in our tractor shed. You could hear them communicating with each other (it sort of s...
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Saturday, April 13, 2013

Snapshot.........the arrival of a pair of Eurasian Coots and the landing of an Australian Kestrel

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We awoke today to a beautiful sunny morning. A number of roos, were milling around the home, grazing. Some of the young adolescent males se...

Fire mitigation and other benefits

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Due to our proximity to the Mornington Peninsula National Park, and the Park being both to the North, and to the West, our fire plan deems ...
Friday, March 22, 2013

Yet another flashback...............birdlife

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Seventy-three (73) bird species have been recorded : Note : members of Birdlife Australia - Mornington Peninsula branch (nee PENBOC) con...
Monday, March 18, 2013

Another flashback..........snakes

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Over the past two (2) years, we've had Lowland Copper-Head Snakes living under our deck. Sometimes there are two (2) snakes which use t...
Friday, March 15, 2013

Snapshot.........another nest

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Hand weeding in the gully today, we came across another nest. We found it laying on the ground firmly attached to a dead tree-fern frond ...
Sunday, March 10, 2013

Alpha males

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Much like humans, in the world of the kangaroo, it's the ladies who get to pick which of the males are permitted to serve. In the...
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