ECHIDNA out and about in Terrys Creek over the last few months. They have been seen from the North Epping area to the south end of the corridor at Essex Street Epping.& Forrester Park Eastwood. Thanks Simon & Lucinda for reporting your sightings. The Echidna can be secretive but when spotted they don't seem to be bothered at all. Have you seen one lately?
ECHIDNA out and about in Terrys Creek over the last few months. They have been seen from the North Epping area to the south end of the corridor at Essex Street Epping.& Forrester Park Eastwood. Thanks Simon & Lucinda for reporting your sightings. The Echidna can be secretive but when spotted they don't seem to be bothered at all. Have you seen one lately?
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Lucinda Coates
11/1/2015 05:33:07 am
Yes, I was amazed at how cool this little character was. He had wandered up from the Terrys Creek area and up the steps leading to my back garden, and was busily nosing around on the edge of my Bushcare site and naive garden area. Then he casually sauntered down the steps, having a bit of a dig amongst the pebbles on the way. Very cute!
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Lucinda Coates
11/1/2015 05:38:02 am
I am very well placed right next to the bushland of Terry's Creek, so often I don't even need to go for a walk down there to have encounters with some of our wonderful wild animals. I was lucky enough to see a beautiful red-bellied black snake, on 4 January 2015, sinuously making its way around my frog pond (poor frogs!). I wonder if it is the same one I saw for the first time about a year or so ago. I'd say it was almost two metres long. I am always glad to see one because it means there should be no brown snakes nearby: I heard there had been more sightings of them - has anyone seen any brown snakes lately?
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I have not ever seen a brown snake in Terrys Creek in 15 years. I have seen red bellied black snake several times & a diamond python.twice in one week. A story I just got to tell you is one day last year a red belly was in the creek on a pile of rubble near the bridge where two pacific black ducks were having a snooze. The ducks woke up & the red belly reared its head at them but the ducks just went back to snoozing. The red belly then continued on his way without harming them. A morale to the story here....leave them alone & they will leave you alone.
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Michelle greenfield
17/1/2015 12:09:38 am
I was lucky to see an echidna just before Christmas on my bushcare site in Pembroke park. It was poking around the undergrowth before wandering away.
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