Wildlife Inventory

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We acknowledge that some of these sightings may include wildlife that are not confined to our property but are present in other parts of the Moggill Pocket.

There has been a disappearance of fireflies (glow worms) that, in our first 2 years of living here, sparkled at night under the large ficus virens. There also used to be large dark moths that gathered in a dark corner of the verandah – they may still be present but not in droves as was the case in the early years of living here.

John Fenton, the author of The Untrained Environmentalist ( Allen & Unwin, 2010), quotes an officer of the World Wide Fund for Nature on page 99 as saying: ‘The number of species of birds present on a given piece of [farm]land and the number of individuals [birds] present on that land is a direct indicator of the health of that piece of land.’

Wildlife we have identified at Moggill Haven as of January 2012

Bird	Place	Time
Australian Wood Ducks	Dam, graze on lawns, nest on driveway	All year round
Australasian Grebes	Dam and River	Before and after hatching ducklings
Blue-face Honey-eaters	Silk trees, trees in flower	Frequent visits
Brush Turkeys	In gardens with mulch	Only occasional sightings
Bush Stone-curlew – one	Driveway	Rarely
Pied Butcher Birds	Gardens on the northern side of house	All year
Channel-billed Cuckoos	Fig trees	September through to March
Coucals	Nest in long grass of pontoon banks	During springtime
Crested Pigeons	Near the chook house and around the pool	All year
Crows	Tall trees with lookout, close to human activity	All year
Currawongs	Singing in the vicinity	Often
Figbirds	Figtrees or Poinciana	Occasionally
Galahs	Driveway	Occasionally
Grey Shrike-thrush – one	In native long-leaf olive trees in side paddock	Rarely
Lewin’s Honeyeaters	Around flowering pool bushes	Rarely
Little Kingfisher – one	High in trees of side paddock overlooking grass lawns	Rarely
Koels	High in fig trees	Especially in very early morning
Kookaburras	On posts and trees	Occasionally visits
Lapwings	On front lawn or paddocks	Seasonally
Little Black Cormorant – one	Dam	Occasionally
Little Pied Cormorant – one	Top of post in dam	Occasionally
Magpies	Driveway	Often
Pacific Black Ducks	Dam	Occasionally
Pale- headed Rosella	House, flowering bushes	Rarely
Pelicans	Overhead	Flying east or west
Noisy Miners	Especially in south-western gardens	All year
Peewees	Around dam, house	Sometimes
Quails	In long grass in side paddock and gardens	All year
Rainbow Lorikeets	In trees or bushes with nectar	Visit frequently
Red-backed Fairy-wrens	Along riverside bushes near dead Chinese Elm	Often
Scaly-breasted Lorikeets	Flowering bushes	Rarely
Spangled Drongos – pair	In trees near gully	In spring
Sulphur-crested Cockatoos	Inside paddock near macadamia trees	When nuts are present
Tawny frogmouth Owls	Cocos Palm tree	Only very occasionally
Tick birds – Cattle Egret	Front paddock	In spring and summer
White Herons	River	Sometimes wading on edge
White Ibis	Lawns	During drought


Animal	Place	Time
Asian House Geckoes	House	All year
Bandicoots	Paddocks, lawns, gullies, river banks	All year
Bats	Cocos Palms, fig trees	All year at night
Bearded Dragons	Driveway and gully	Occasionally
Brown Hares	Side and front paddock and front lawn	Often
Cane Toads	Everywhere	All year
Carpet Pythons	In garden, poolhouse, ceiling	Occasionally
Common Brushtail Possums	On roof, carport, near vegetable garden	All year
Dingo – one	Along edge of river	Once
Eastern Water Dragons	Log along river, stump in gully	Once near bays, 3 times Goat gully
Echidna – one	South-western gardens and neighbour’s property	Occasionally
Green Treefrogs	In gutters and around house	When it rains
Monitor – one	Tree in front fence garden	Once
Ornate Burrowing-frog – one	In soil under Grandaddy Tereticornis	Only once when digging up asparagus fern vines
Red-bellied black snakes	Riverbanks and gullies	More often since flood
Foxes	Near chook-house, under cottage, down gully	Occasionally
Striped Marsh Frogs	Swimming Pool	A few times after intensive rain
Sugar Glider – one	Bay of riverbank	Once – dead
Tree snakes	Gardens near house	Sometimes
Turtle	Dam	Several times
Verreaux’s Skink	Pool – dead	Once
Water Rat – one	River’s edge	Only tracks seen


Insect	Place	Time
Ants – black, green, white	House, soil, timber	Often
Native Bees	Veranda hive	Constant
Beetles and Bugs	Bush and grass	Often
Butterflies – Wanderer, Emperor Gum, Common Crow, Joseph’s Coat	Garden flowers	Often
Cicadas	Garden plants and trees	Especially summer nights
Dragonflies (blue)	Dam	Often
Earthworms	Garden soil	Often
Flies – House, Fruit, March	House and garden	Seasonally
Fireflies	Around ficus virens	First 2 years – no longer
Granny’s Cloak Moth	In dark parts of veranda	A few occasionally
Green Grasshoppers/ Mantids	Gardens	Occasionally
Lacewings	Dam	Often
Mosquitoes	House and garden	Night-time
Moths	Tomatoes	Often
Pests	Citrus and roses	Often
Paralysis Ticks	Paddocks, undergrowth, near bandicoot burrows	Continuously after flood
Snails	Vegetable garden	In times of new growth
Spiders	House and garden	All year
Wasps –mud, potter	Around house and garage	Seasonally

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2 Responses to Wildlife Inventory

Randolf says:

October 4, 2016 at 11:58 am

Looks beautiful not sure about the red belly black snake

- janetsstory says:
  
  October 4, 2016 at 1:29 pm
  
  It’s pretty special to have Red Bellied Black Snakes. They disappear at the first hint of humans and no-one has been bitten in the years we’ve lived here. Perhaps the birds, such as Kookaburras, keep them under control. So we tell everyone who visits that they can relax!