Hello again,
The fiery sunrises early this week portend of wet and windy weather to come. This afternoon the clouds were again building.
Mosquitoes and ants were active for the first time in a month.
One of the cassowary chicks was left alone in the nursery on Tuesday. He cried all day and most of the night. When I put the food in the feed station at 6.30am Wednesday he saw me but ignored the food. Around 8am the whistling stopped and happy chirping sounds came from the mangroves. Dad had returned with the other chick. Dad left the hungry chicks to feed while he kept a look out.
Following cyclone Tasha on Christmas Eve last year the marker buoy on the Coquette Point rocks was swept away and is now over near the coconuts. (God help any skipper that tries to sail inside the buoy where it is now). Anyhow there is no marker on the Coquette Point rocks and almost daily I witness boats going over the rocks at high tide. If there is a good tide and they have a shallow draft they make it but it is just a matter of time before a boat goes up on the rocks.
Most mornings you can see my fitness fanatic son Martin paddling on the river.
Today vet Julia Conole came out to the nursery and she had a look at the pig cage.
Today vet Julia Conole came out to the nursery and she had a look at the pig cage.
While she was there the cassowary family turned up and of course tried unsuccessfully to get at the food inside the pig cage. Julia examined the cage and could not see how a cassowary would be able to enter it. Sorry about the quality of the photo it was raining at the time.
My next door neighbour Rick is doing some major works and filling the old Dam that Fred Peirce constructed forty years ago. The dam was always full of mud cod.
Every now and again one is privilege to see nature in action. The spotted catbirds at Coquette Point have been very vocal for a few weeks now and more so since the pied currawongs have turned up. Yesterday they were a little noisier than usual and when I went to see what was going on they were carrying out a display along the branches of the terminalia tree. Their tails were twitching and they were bobbing up and down while at the same time moving along the branches making loud, typically cat bird calls. In my fumbling to find the video on my camera I missed capturing the action. When the display finished they moved to other vantage points continuing to call loudly. How amazing to witness this display.
Every evening at sunset a flock of egrets returns to the Johnstone River to roost in the mangroves near Ninds Creek. They fly low over the water following the river as it winds around Coquette Point. Seeing them every afternoon is always a lovely closure to my day.
Cheers Yvonne C.
Cheers Yvonne C.
