Wildlife for each visit
A small area of bushland can support a surprising amount of wildlife! And when we're not there with the camera, there are wallabies, possums, snakes, brush turkeys and many others.
A small area of bushland can support a surprising amount of wildlife! And when we're not there with the camera, there are wallabies, possums, snakes, brush turkeys and many others.
August 2022 Wildlife
May 2022 Wildlife
February 2022 Wildlife
November 2021 Wildlife
March 2021 Wildlife
November 2020 Wildlife
Varied Dusky Blue
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Glistening (Common) Pencil-blue, Candalides absilimis
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This butterfly, the Varied Dusky Blue is attended by ants and its caterpillars feed on the locally growing twining dodder, Cassytha pubescens.
Lesters' Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa (Listis))
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Lester's Carpenter Bee
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Female carpenter bees have a thick tuft of black hair on their hind legs for carrying the pollen back to their nests in burrows inside soft dead timber. They were a gorgeous metallic green-blue and there were several zipping from flower to flower. The males are yellow and black and not nearly so pretty.
www.aussiebee.com.au/lestis-bee-dec2012.html
www.aussiebee.com.au/lestis-bee-dec2012.html
As well as the wildlife pictured a sugar glider popped its head out of a hollow dead tree on one of our weeding days and wallabies visit from time to time.
Now that foxes have been controlled in the Council reserve and Garrigal National Park, brush turkeys have returned and wander through the Sanctuary. One built a nest in the back garden of Claire's former house (which her brother and family own now) next door to the Sanctuary. Lyre birds have also returned.
Since the disappearance of the foxes occasional wallabies also venture into the Sanctuary.
Evidence can be seen of bandicoot diggings, not to be confused with the rabbit diggings. Warringah Council from time to time endeavour to control the rabbits but haven't yet been successful in eradicating them.
Various snakes slither through the Sanctuary - Carpet pythons, Green tree snakes, Red-bellied black snakes, Whip snakes and rarely a Brown and once a Death adder.. Leaf-tail geckoes live in the house next door and no doubt also occur in the Sanctuary. Besides Blue tongues Eulamprus lizards are occasionally seen It is also a haven for birds.
At the end of April 2016, it was lovely to see a migration of Caper White butterflies flying north over the Reserve from the south. A few females stopped on a Capparis tree that had been planted in the past on the edge of the reserve. Males fluttered around them and, after mating, they laid their eggs on the flower buds on the tree.
Now that foxes have been controlled in the Council reserve and Garrigal National Park, brush turkeys have returned and wander through the Sanctuary. One built a nest in the back garden of Claire's former house (which her brother and family own now) next door to the Sanctuary. Lyre birds have also returned.
Since the disappearance of the foxes occasional wallabies also venture into the Sanctuary.
Evidence can be seen of bandicoot diggings, not to be confused with the rabbit diggings. Warringah Council from time to time endeavour to control the rabbits but haven't yet been successful in eradicating them.
Various snakes slither through the Sanctuary - Carpet pythons, Green tree snakes, Red-bellied black snakes, Whip snakes and rarely a Brown and once a Death adder.. Leaf-tail geckoes live in the house next door and no doubt also occur in the Sanctuary. Besides Blue tongues Eulamprus lizards are occasionally seen It is also a haven for birds.
At the end of April 2016, it was lovely to see a migration of Caper White butterflies flying north over the Reserve from the south. A few females stopped on a Capparis tree that had been planted in the past on the edge of the reserve. Males fluttered around them and, after mating, they laid their eggs on the flower buds on the tree.
