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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Ian
Dec 4, 20225 min read
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
May 20, 20227 min read
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, 20225 min read
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, 20214 min read
Floods, Snakes and Micro Bats
The dry ended with lots of rain, finally filling streams and wetlands.
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Ian
Sep 17, 20205 min read
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, 20204 min read
Autumn ducklings and other regulars
Ducklings hatch and grow up while we isolate in the bush.
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Ian
Feb 14, 20205 min read
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, 20194 min read
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, 20192 min read
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, 20182 min read
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, 20182 min read
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, 20183 min read
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, 20173 min read
The young forest
The journey of regeneration from cleared to a young forest.
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Ian
Jun 29, 20173 min read
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, 20172 min read
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, 20173 min read
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, 20164 min read
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, 20163 min read
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, 20163 min read
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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