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Blue Eyes Lacewing (Nymphes myrmeleonoides)Observer
jonathan_pughDescription
Field Notes - This lacewing was attracted by the light on the deck we where having dinner on. It was about 4cm long and had very erratic flight
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Pacific Black Duck (Anas superciliosa)Observer
jonathan_pughDescription
Field Notes - hanging out with a small band of other pacific black ducks
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Jungle Huntsman Spider (Heteropoda jugulans)Observer
jonathan_pughDescription
Field Notes - This huntsman was hanging out in my bedroom, was safely relocated outside
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Wandering Sea Anemone (Phlyctenactis tuberculosa)Observer
jonathan_pughDescription
Field Notes - We found this washed up on the beach after a couple of days of big southerly swells. It was about 20cm in diameter and it appears to have a top side and an underside with a mouth and tentacles on the underside. We observed it change colour red to green and then red again when it was washed over by a wave. it did float and at a guess it is some kind of an anemone? Similar colors to a Waratah anemone, but much larger then any I had encountered.
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Cox's Gudgeon (Gobiomorphus coxii)Observer
jonathan_pughDescription
Field Notes - fresh water creek in upper valley. fish was hanging out under a small water fall.
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Flatwings (Genus Austroargiolestes)Observer
jonathan_pughDescription
Field Notes - Dragonfly resting by a small creek
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Australian Long-finned Eel (Anguilla reinhardtii)Observer
jonathan_pughDescription
Field Notes - Anguilla sp. swimming in a loop on creek edge looking for food.
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Razor Grinder (Henicopsaltria eydouxii)Observer
jonathan_pughDescription
Field Notes - these cicadas were so noisy they hurt our ears
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Azure Kingfisher (Ceyx azureus)Observer
jonathan_pughDescription
Field Notes - there was a pair feeding in the creek
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By-the-wind Sailor (Velella velella)Observer
jonathan_pughDescription
Field Notes - The beach was awash with Velella. this was a larger specimen in good form.
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Diamond Python (Morelia spilota ssp. spilota)Observer
jonathan_pughDescription
Field Notes - large Python sunning itself on the deck at school
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Variegated Fairywren (Malurus lamberti)Observer
jonathan_pughDescription
Field Notes - calling from a high point above bracken ferns
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jonathan_pughDescription
Field Notes - I think this is Eriosyemon hispidulus, defiantly in the Rutaceae with aromatic oils in the leaves. The planet was in flower all over the hillside on the short walking loop from the Mill creek campsite.
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Bare-nosed Wombat (Vombatus ursinus)Observer
jonathan_pughDescription
Field Notes - A number of wombats spotted while camping at Mills Creek. This individual appears to have a bad mange infection.
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Superb Lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae)Observer
jonathan_pughDescription
Field Notes - We were amazed to see so many lyrebirds together. (we counted 5 or 6, but there could have been more). We observed the young being feed and trained by the female. We also saw two males running around and displaying their range of bird songs. Is this normal behaviour? Always thought they where very solitary and the young fended for themselves after hatching from the mound?
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Satin Bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus)Observer
jonathan_pughDescription
Field Notes - moving through tree tops, calling out
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Eastern Water Skink (Eulamprus quoyii)Observer
jonathan_pughDescription
Field Notes - while we ate lunch buy the water call, this guy came looking for anything we had dropped. very brave running around our feet.
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Southern Death Adder (Acanthophis antarcticus)Observer
jonathan_pughDescription
Field Notes - this snake was sunning its self in the middle of the for trail. Looked like it had just had a feed and was very docile, moved off with a nudge.
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Geckos (Infraorder Gekkota)Observer
jonathan_pughDescription
Field Notes - small gecko 2cm
feel from above as I closed a sliding door
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Scaly Phebalium (Phebalium squamulosum)Observer
jonathan_pughDescription
Field Notes - there is lots of this shrub in flower, in the bush around wheeler creek. I have is it as, phebalium squamulosum ssp squamulosum
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Eleven-armed Sea Star (Coscinasterias muricata)Observer
jonathan_pughDescription
Field Notes - seastar moving through rock pool, about 10cm long
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Great Crested Tern (Thalasseus bergii)Observer
jonathan_pughDescription
Behavior - Bird with chicks
Habitat - Near a natural water source
Additional comments? - adult feeding a chick
Nest present - No
How many? - 2
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Trooping Crumble Cap (Coprinellus disseminatus)Observer
jonathan_pughDescription
Field Notes - after all the rain these mushroom are growing under a shady deck.
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Typical Orbweavers (Subfamily Araneinae)Observer
jonathan_pughDescription
Field Notes - This spider was photographed on a flower spike of a Xanthorrhoea. It was in the process of building a large orb web in our front garden at dusk.
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jonathan_pughDescription
Field Notes - two small (1-2cm) red, speckled, nudibranch mating? in a rock pool at low tide.
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Eastern Shovelnose Ray (Aptychotrema rostrata)Observer
jonathan_pughDescription
Field Notes - Shovelnose ray caught and released while drifting over sand banks in western Pittwater.
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Sydney Crayfish (Euastacus australasiensis)Observer
jonathan_pughDescription
Field Notes - found walking on the sandy bottom of a natural waterhole in the NP. there where lots of other smaller crayfish too. Thinking it might be an ?Euastacus australasiensis ?
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Red Big-Eye (Heteropriacanthus carolinus)Observer
jonathan_pughDescription
Field Notes - small fish stranded on the sand by a big wave. about 3-4cm. was still alive so snapped the pic and returned to surf.
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jonathan_pughDescription
Field Notes - Large (5cm) beetle, noticed on the edge of the walking track in the NP looking for cover.
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Garden Katydids (Genus Caedicia)Observer
jonathan_pughDescription
Field Notes - small 1cm grasshopper? sitting on our macadamia plant
