The unknown caterpillar is revealed after a two year mission - The story of the Wattle Cup Moth (Calcarifera ordinata)

We have managed to capture some remarkable video and photos of our local goannas. The video only runs for a couple of minutes. Watch to the

The wetland dried up leaving lots of food for the snakes, goannas, water rats and birds.

Welcome to Istari 2023. Istari, the home of australianbushlife.com in the Clarence Valley of New South Wales, Australia. Istari is a Land...

Spring is gone. The days are heating up, the goannas are out and about. Bells phase Goannas We have noticed two Bells Phase lace...

In a wetland near Istari we saw seven black swams (Cygnus atratus), 2 adults and 5 young.

The record floods dominate everything for us and in the bush. Cane toads have arrived. Weeding and pest management and a lot more.

We saw the dingo (Canis familiaris) from our wildlife camera. He sauntered along the path we had made through the bush. He turned left...

We found the body of Jac our beloved three legged goanna, today, April 7 2022.

Jac is a lace monitor (Varanus varius) who has lived here for nearly 25 years.

Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) is an iconic Australian marsupial. Unlike its closest living relative, the wombat, the koala is tree...

We saw the dingo (Canis familiaris) from our wildlife camera. He sauntered along the path we had made through the bush. He turned left...

The dry ended with lots of rain, finally filling streams and wetlands.

Bats can be divided into two main groups, micro bats and mega bats. Mega bats, like flying foxes, are the bats we often see flying off to...

Winter at Istari with the scrub wallabies (Macropus rufogriseus) and other locals

Ducklings hatch and grow up while we isolate in the bush.

The summer is almost over and it has rained. The fires have stopped. The days are almost constantly hot but unlike the later part of 2019,

The dry continues in the Clarence. Although there has been some rain on the coast much of the valley is seeing little rain.

The creek water refuge has now disappeared so we put a container of fresh water in the bush and set a camera.

A few light frosts arrived in June and the grass died off. Then came the real frosts. It dropped below zero several days in a row,...