Australian Goanna
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
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Ian
- Mar 13
- 5 min
Letter from Istari - Summer 2022-23
The wetland dried up leaving lots of food for the snakes, goannas, water rats and birds.
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Terry
- Feb 8
- 1 min
Istari 2023
Welcome to Istari 2023. Istari, the home of australianbushlife.com in the Clarence Valley of New South Wales, Australia. Istari is a Land...
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Ian
- Dec 4, 2022
- 5 min
Letter from Istari - December 2022
Spring is gone. The days are heating up, the goannas are out and about. Bells phase Goannas We have noticed two Bells Phase lace...
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Ian
- Oct 25, 2022
- 1 min
Black Swans with young
In a wetland near Istari we saw seven black swams (Cygnus atratus), 2 adults and 5 young.
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Ian
- May 20, 2022
- 7 min
Letter from Istari - May 2022
The record floods dominate everything for us and in the bush. Cane toads have arrived. Weeding and pest management and a lot more.
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Ian
- Apr 25, 2022
- 2 min
Dingo (Canis familiaris)
We saw the dingo (Canis familiaris) from our wildlife camera. He sauntered along the path we had made through the bush. He turned left...
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Ian
- Apr 7, 2022
- 1 min
Vale Jac
We found the body of Jac our beloved three legged goanna, today, April 7 2022.
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Ian
- Mar 28, 2022
- 5 min
We call her Jac ...
Jac is a lace monitor (Varanus varius) who has lived here for nearly 25 years.
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Ian
- Jan 18, 2022
- 3 min
Koala
Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) is an iconic Australian marsupial. Unlike its closest living relative, the wombat, the koala is tree...
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Ian
- Jan 2, 2022
- 5 min
Dingo!
We saw the dingo (Canis familiaris) from our wildlife camera. He sauntered along the path we had made through the bush. He turned left...
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Ian
- Apr 11, 2021
- 4 min
Floods, Snakes and Micro Bats
The dry ended with lots of rain, finally filling streams and wetlands.
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Ian
- Apr 9, 2021
- 5 min
Micro bats
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...
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Ian
- Sep 17, 2020
- 5 min
Jack, Jill, Joey and winter friends
Winter at Istari with the scrub wallabies (Macropus rufogriseus) and other locals
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Ian
- May 21, 2020
- 4 min
Autumn ducklings and other regulars
Ducklings hatch and grow up while we isolate in the bush.
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Ian
- Feb 14, 2020
- 5 min
Bushfires Heat Koalas and Rain
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,
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Ian
- Oct 1, 2019
- 4 min
The dry continues - fires, orchids and cockatoos
The dry continues in the Clarence. Although there has been some rain on the coast much of the valley is seeing little rain.
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Terry
- Jul 11, 2019
- 2 min
Winter 2019
The creek water refuge has now disappeared so we put a container of fresh water in the bush and set a camera.
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Ian
- Aug 14, 2018
- 2 min
Letter from Istari - Winter Dry
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,...
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Ian
- Mar 29, 2018
- 3 min
Wildlife Magic
One of the many magic things about living in the bush is the wildlife. It is a privilege to have them so close and living their life in fron
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