I did a quick trip out to Ivanhoe in Western NSW. The property was 40,000 acres of very variable country from rocky hills to scrubby flat country. The first thing we noticed was the number of Emus, they were everywhere. Between Booligol and Ivanhoe we counted 138 and we would have seen well over 500 for the trip. One we saw on the side of the road was running round and round a bush. When we got close we found he was chasing a fox and had about 10 chicks the fox was trying to kill. The fox took off when we stopped and the only photo I got with the Emu and Fox was not very good.
Kangaroos were also in huge numbers, both Western Greys and Reds. Wild Goats were also very numerous.
During that first afternoon driving around we saw 3 wild cats and one fox.
The only decent photo of the other birdlife was these Mulga Parrots
[url=http://www.zoochat.com/674/mulga-parrots-328036]
We spent a lot of that night thinning out the foxes and cats and I spent a lot of time looking through my new FLIR ps32 thermal imager. It picked up animals better than the spotlight. We though we found an Emue on egs at one stage as there was a very big hot spot left after an Emu ran off, but it was Emu **** which is very runny. I was hoping to find Fat Tail Dunnits as the manager has seen one, but not for years. He says there were not the cats on the place that there are now then either. We did find these small birds roosting in saplings.
The next day the manager went with us to show us some of the harder to find places. There are 7 Eagle nests on the place and 3 are being used at the moment. The one we looked at had collapsed last year and rebuilt in the same tree, and has eggs at the moment.
There was even a lake on the property which has had water in it for the last 3 years and was covered in Swans.
The last thing he showed us was the Aboriginal Rock Paintings ment to be 5,000 years old.
I will be going back soon and need a new camera so I can get better photos of the wildlife.
Kangaroos were also in huge numbers, both Western Greys and Reds. Wild Goats were also very numerous.
During that first afternoon driving around we saw 3 wild cats and one fox.
The only decent photo of the other birdlife was these Mulga Parrots
[url=http://www.zoochat.com/674/mulga-parrots-328036]
We spent a lot of that night thinning out the foxes and cats and I spent a lot of time looking through my new FLIR ps32 thermal imager. It picked up animals better than the spotlight. We though we found an Emue on egs at one stage as there was a very big hot spot left after an Emu ran off, but it was Emu **** which is very runny. I was hoping to find Fat Tail Dunnits as the manager has seen one, but not for years. He says there were not the cats on the place that there are now then either. We did find these small birds roosting in saplings.
The next day the manager went with us to show us some of the harder to find places. There are 7 Eagle nests on the place and 3 are being used at the moment. The one we looked at had collapsed last year and rebuilt in the same tree, and has eggs at the moment.
There was even a lake on the property which has had water in it for the last 3 years and was covered in Swans.
The last thing he showed us was the Aboriginal Rock Paintings ment to be 5,000 years old.
I will be going back soon and need a new camera so I can get better photos of the wildlife.
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