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Contrary to
rumours that echidnas are no longer to be found in Lane Cove National
Park, they are there. And
not only echidnas!
- Latest
report : 13
December 2011 3pm
It's
been a while, but another echidna was spotted by Pavel and Lydia
Kotulic, visiting from Europe, about 50 meters from the Park entrance
in Macquarie Park.
- mid-September
2011
More from
Daniel Jarvis (see May below)
Just thought I'd let you know of some more sightings in the park
I had over the weekend. kayaking up the river on Sunday before
lunch:
- plenty of cormorants, ducks, noisy swamp hens, the usual birds
along with a couple of Azure Kingfishers which were about 500
metres apart (maybe a breeding pair?) darting over the river.
- a couple of water dragons who I guess are back out.
- The real surprise was to see two black snakes swimming across
the river within 10 metres of each other in opposite directions
at the same time! Surprising.
- 1
August 2011
A
Powerful Owl spotted by Sarah and Sam Smith at the junction of
the Kurrajong path from Pennant Hills and Day Road entrance at
Cheltenham.
- June
2011
From the Muffett family
Just wanted to let you know that there
is significant bandicoot activity on the right side of Albion
Street Pennant Hills. The houses at the end of the street are
on the Lane Cove National Park boundary.
Unfortunately there are a number of free roaming domestic cats,
hopefully the little bandicoots are fast runners. : (
- May
2011
From Daniel Jarvis
I regularly ride through this park on my mountain bike (2-3 times
a week) and have a few sightings from the last few months.
A few times in late Summer/early Autumn 2011 I saw turtles in
a pool in a creek in the bush between Whale Rock and Day Rd (Beecroft)
Yesterday I had the life scared out of me from an approx. 2 metre
brown snake just off the Link track near I think Kingsford Ave,
South Turramurra.
There are a few Brush Turkeys who hang around the bush near my
house in Epping, I see them regularly along Devlins Creek.
On two occasions in late Summer/early Autumn I have seen Yellow
Tailed Black Cockatoos around the Day Rd area near Whale Rock.
Groups of 4 or so. [See photos at right from mobile phone]
I have also, unfortunately, seen a fox running along the path
near Whale Rock.
After rain last Summer I saw a few Eels in the Devlins Creek area.
- April
2011
Cunningham's Skink - rarely seen in Lane Cove National
Park. Seen near the Great North Walk towards Kissing Point Road.
Thanks Jenny
and Sofia Zvolanek for spotting and photos
- July
2010:
- Powerful
Owl photographed in Fairyland by
Tony Butteriss
- late
2009
- Two powerful Owls were seen
on Riverside Drive, actually on the road probably eating something
- June
2009
- Two brush turkeys seen crossing Kissing Point Road
about 100 m down hill from Boyd St. This was at approximately
7:30 am. Thanks Philip Dowling
- -
1m+ lace monitor (probably juvenile)
crawled out of a gully near the Tourist Park where a bushcare
volunteer was battling weeds, and slid back after a bit of sunning.
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- a pair
of Pacific Bazzas at the Delhi Rd Gates,
- a Black Bittern at Cottonwood Glen,
- a pair of Grebes at the weir,
- a Superb Parrot at Wallalong Crescent (seriously!), Brush Turkeys
in several locations,
- Powerful Owls at Commandment Rock,
- Swamp Wallabies on the hill behind the Works depot.
- January
2008 - some fauna sightings from the last few months
– 4 wallabies hopping through the bush on the south side
of the river near Fiddens Wharf;
- 2 powerful owls on the river near Avondale Creek, and near Khartoum
Rd;
- Long Neck Tortoises at Thornleigh (in a swimming pool), Talavera
Rd (!) and in the river at a waterhole just upstream of Deburgs
Bridge;
- an echidna at Carters Ck;
- a family of Tawny Frogmouths at River Ave
- baby lace monitors at Jenkins Hall and Tunks Hill;
- Brush Turkey at Durham Cl;
- and a Boobook Owl up Blue Gum Ck.
- 2
red belly black snakes at Morona Ave
- a family of tawny frogmouths from River Ave.
- December
2006
- An echidna was sighted on two occasions in the same small area
of bush close to the creek near the Malton Rd/Kethel Rd intersection
in Cheltenham. It was seen about 2.30pm (curled up) on Sunday
November 12 and again (full frontal!) at about 3pm on December
7 2006. He seems very much at home! reports Attica Cox.
- September
2006 - Two echidnas spotted waddling through the bush
beside Riverside Drive (and then across the road), not far from
Porters Bridge. A couple walking along the road said they often
see them in the area.
- Another
echidna was spotted and photographed in September 2004 by Zac
Gazzard, who says he has seen many in the last few months, and
thinks they are becoming more common, possibly as a result of
the fox-baiting programs.
- August 2004
- an echidna was picked up from Lady Game Drive by a park ranger
and deposited in a safe place within the park boundaries, well
away from the main road.
- One was
seen in September, 2002, by walkers on the Great
North Walk somewhere between the weir and de Burghs Bridge.
- October
2001 from Herbert. "There are also Echidnas in Lane Cove
near North Epping. A visitor of mine from Germany just saw two
when she walked through the bush, described the "funny hatchhog"
to me and asked me what it was. There can't be that many, because
I am often in the bush, and have never seen one."
- Near the
Caravan Park October 2001. Seen by lucky Alison.
- September
2001 near picnic area 36 (Thistlethwayte's). Thanks Lutz
(a volunteer bush regenerator in the Park) and the visitor who
pointed it out.
- September
2000 near the boatshed. Lucky Mark to be able to watch
it for a couple of minutes!
- Another
sighting early in 2000 at the Barakee Picnic
area! Thanks Jenny.
- One was
seen on Fri 5/11/99 in Somerset Park (between
Terry's Creek and Crimea Road), in the Lane Cove River catchment.
Thanks to Bruce for emailing us that news!
Other
sightings of rare and special fauna
- December
2006: bandicoots have been appearing unfortunately as road kill
along Lady Game Drive in the past few months! They are obviously
increasing!! Thanks Zac for letting us know and informing LCNP
as well.
- a powerful
owl spotted in the Blue Gum High Forest in Dalrymple Hay Nature
Reserve, St Ives, December 2006
- June 2005:
bandicoot holes spotted at the Little Blue Gum Creek bushcare
site
- a bandicoot
near de Burghs bridge about July / August 2004 (it got trapped
during a cat trapping enterprise).
- a powerful
owl high up in a pittosporum at Terry's Creek mid-September, 2004
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Yellow Tailed
Black Cockatoos
Cunningham's
Skink
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Powerful
Owl Fairyland
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Lace monitor
in typical
'escape from passers-by mode'
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