Letter from Istari

'Letter from Istari' is our regular newsletter with all the latest from us here at Istari.

Letter from Istari - Summer 2022-23

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

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...

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.

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...

Floods, Snakes and Micro Bats

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

Jack, Jill, Joey and winter friends

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

Autumn ducklings and other regulars

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

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,

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.

Winter 2019

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