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
- Jan 2
- 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
- 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
- Jul 28, 2018
- 2 min
Land for Wildlife
Have you ever seen these signs - "Land for Wildlife". You'll see them beside country roads, usually in bush areas. We had seen them...
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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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Ian
- Dec 1, 2017
- 3 min
The young forest
The journey of regeneration from cleared to a young forest.
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Ian
- Jun 29, 2017
- 3 min
The shortest days
Winters on the north coast of NSW are usually beautiful blue sky days and we have already had quite a few of them already. There is usually
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Ian
- Jun 14, 2017
- 2 min
Rusty Trees
Black She-oak (allocasuarina littoralis) As the autumn moves into winter, along the roadsides and scattered throughout the bush, splashes...
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Ian
- Jan 16, 2017
- 3 min
Goannas can jump!
Goannas are smart animals and learnt, over time, to overcome many of our efforts to keep them out of the chicken pen. We now think we have
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Ian
- Dec 8, 2016
- 4 min
A week in the bush
It has been a busy week in the bush. We had a visit from the plumed whistling ducks (dendrocygna eytoni) again but this time two adults...
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Ian
- Dec 1, 2016
- 3 min
Summer is here ...
Summer has arrived but thankfully the cicadas haven't started to 'sing' yet. The crunchy grass is finally beginning to grow again after...
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Ian
- Sep 4, 2016
- 3 min
Welcome to Australian Bush Life
This first letter outlines a little about the history and resulting environment here at Istari where we live in the Clarence valley.
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