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Today I've officially got COVID so I'm not just isolating due to being a close contact, that'll really put a crimp in the outings and observations. Now restricted to home for another week and I guess it'll be either garden invertebrates, fly-overs, fly-ins, or the megafauna that tromps across the roof in the night…
Many nights, including last night as I lay awake, there's the thump-ka-thump-ka-thump as a possum or two scampers across the roof. We don't have as many as a few years ago, the railway's Level Crossing Removal Project cut down a thicket of cypress trees that were being used as a roost, and I suspect there's also fewer local vege gardens to raid. Without going out in the night I can't tell by sound whether they're Brushtails[1] or Ringtails[2], I suspect the thumping ones are the former, the scampering ones the latter.
In the garden the swallowtail caterpillars[3] are quite prolific, each time I inspect the orange or lime trees I can find a few large, plump, black and white caterpillars feasting on the leaves. Being a native species I do wonder what their preferred diet was before Europeans introduced the citrus bushes
So that's today, there's always something alive around a house or garden, even if its only a daddy long-legs or garden snails
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