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Citizen scientist documenting the biodiversity of a 70 acre bush property in the north of #Tasmania, Australia https://www.tasforest.com https://www.youtube.com/@tasforest 📍 lutruwita/Tasmania
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It's always exciting when a camera trap captures a platypus. When one's in the water a layer of air and water on its fur makes it too cold to trigger the sensors, but this one climbed right out of the water. #platypus #australiananimals #Tasmania #monotremes #nature #cameratrap #trailcam #wildlife

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Potoroos & bandicoots are overjoyed that it's mushroom season and are digging little (and some not-so-little) holes absolutely everywhere. The holes help water penetration, provide a place for seeds to land and germinate, and digging helps spread fungal spores. #Tasmania #AusAnimals #Potoroo #Nature

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Is eastern spinebill season! I love the markings on these little guys. #EasternSpinebill #honeater #AustralianBird #Tasmania #Autumn

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

A couple of nights ago we had the first rain in a long time, causing lots of frogs to climb out of the ferns and up the loungeroom window. #Nature #Frogs #Amphibians #Herps #Tasmania #Rain #auswildlife

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

I was never conscious until now that average Australians generally avoid gratuitously interfering with wildlife. I like the fact that if you do engage in this kind of idiotic behaviour here, you’ll be slammed for it. Makes me proud to be Australian. #wombats #dickheadinfluencers

submitted 108 days ago • 4 comments

The turbo chooks found the paddling pool (or "paddy pool") that we put out for the pademelons, wallabies and possums to drink from, and they're pretty happy with it. #Tasmania #NativeHen #TurboChook #Wildlife

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

Our creek's water level is quite low at the moment, but this hasn't stopped a giant freshwater crayfish (Astacopsis gouldi) from hanging out in one of the deeper pools. It's the biggest one I've seen for quite a while. #Tasmania #ausinverts #AstacopsisGouldi #Crayfish #Freshwater #Nature #Endangered

submitted 113 days ago • 1 comment

Why I do what I do. All the ticks & leeches & scratches and itchy bites.... all forgotten. All the bills & responsibilities & horrors in the news.... all forgotten. My fears for the future, for all the Earthlings, my anger at political corruption... all forgotten. Enjoy the moments like this :)

submitted 122 days ago • 0 comments

This morning I saw the most amazing spider webs hanging in the rushes. Up close, they look man-made. I couldn't find the spiders, so I don't know who these belong to. #Nature #Spiders #Spiderweb #Arachnids #Tasmania #Australia

submitted 126 days ago • 0 comments

We put a trap out to catch a mouse that's been running around on the verandah. No luck, but if the possum had been able to get in it would have. With no moving parts, pokes from a possum don't disable this type of trap. #BrushtailPossum #MouseTrap #Wildlife #Australia #Tasmania #australiananimals

submitted 129 days ago • 1 comment

The robins are back! There weren't many last year but now there are are lots of scarlet and flame robins about. This photo of a male scarlet is the reason there's an old piece of plumbing pipe propped outside the dining room window. #robins #australianbirds #Tasmania #redbirds #nature

submitted 130 days ago • 0 comments

I just teleported like a cat that has seen a cucumber, and also made a whole new noise. Nearly trod on a tiger snake. 😬

submitted 132 days ago • 1 comment

In #Tasmania? How about marking #WorldWetlandsDay by getting into the CallTrackers project? Help map & monitor elusive, Endangered Australasian Bittern booms, bat chirps & more. It's a fun adventure with a super-cool #bioacoustics gadget... 📷 Helen Cunningham 🦇🎙️ #citsci #CallTrackers

submitted 146 days ago • 2 comments

Australia approved clearing of ~26,000 hectares of #threatenedspecies habitat in 2024. At the same time, incentives for private land owners to protect or enhance habitat remain ineffective. This is a trajectory we must change for everyone’s sake.

submitted 158 days ago • 0 comments

Sometimes the Bennett's wallabies make a head start on the pademelons, coming out to eat before dusk. This one was snacking outside the lounge room window until he was distracted by a female. #Macropods #australiananimals #Wallaby #Marsupials #Tasmania #Wildlife #Nature

submitted 163 days ago • 0 comments

Great to see more folk from #tasmania still arriving here every day! Here are two starter packs of Tasmanian users that might help you find some familiar faces. These links can also be shared on other platforms to encourage folk to make the move over here! go.bsky.app/Dhstko4 go.bsky.app/QdK7iXR

submitted 167 days ago • 2 comments

It's always a pleasure to be in @nhm-london.bsky.social mainly to visit their perfectly overstuffed #echidna, which is mounted with its belly almost flat to the ground and its feet pointing in the wrong direction (its back feet should point backwards). #Echidnas #taxidermy

submitted 169 days ago • 1 comment

An all-black baby #TasmanianDevil pops back out into the world. #fieldwork #Tasmania #MammalWatching #WildOz #TasmanianDevils

submitted 170 days ago • 0 comments