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Watch a brush-tailed phascogale struggle to decide between drinking or keeping a mouthful of feathers—it couldn't do both! When the trough disappeared for maintenance one night, it was hilarious to see the phascogale utterly baffled. Later, a glider made a spectacular leap after finding the water, while a satin bowerbird and an eastern yellow robin turned the trough into a birdbath.
Istari, the home of australianbushlife.com in the Clarence Valley of New South Wales, Australia. Istari is a Land for Wildlife property dedicated to the conservation of the bush, wetlands and waterways supporting unique flora and fauna.
In this time of the pandemic and lockdowns take a stroll across the wetland and into the young forest on your way to the creek.
As the wetland dries up the animals arrive to pick off a meal. A Kookaburra, goanna, snake, swamphen and chick and a water rat all look over the muddy pond for a meal.
ISTARI is the home of australianbushlife.com and is a Land for Wildlife property in the vast Clarence Valley of New South Wales, Australia.
On this property, 317 species of plant have being identified and 363 species of animal including 11 species of bat, 23 different butterflies, 21 different spiders, 23 species of frog and 138 species of bird.
Water for Wildlife During the 2019-20 summer, WWF-Australia along with the Reece Group supported WIRES Water For Wildlife, Australia’s largest supplemental water program for native wildlife.
So far, we’ve witnessed, through our camera koalas, birds, possums, gliders and reptiles using the drinkers.
Istari is a Land for Wildlife property in the Clarence Valley of New South Wales, Australia. Australian Bush Life. australianbushlife.com
We are dedicated to the preservation and restoration of the native flora and fauna unique to the area. @australianbushlife
Take a moment to enjoy some of the plants and animals found at Istari.
Dingos are alpha predators in the Australian bush. They are cunning and smart. Seeing one in the bush is exciting.
Male red-necked wallabies will move around quite a bit looking for females although some will return to their original home area frequently. When they encounter another male the dominant one will usually chase another male away otherwise they will fight.
The fights are brutal as you will see in this video.
ISTARI is a place in the Australian bush for the freedom and sanctuary of all native animals and plants. Land for Wildlife.
Koalas visit here regularly. We can hear them often at night but they are very hard to spot in the trees.
This drought continues. All natural water sources remain dry. We've placed containers of fresh water in the bush. We call this a water refuge. Spring 2019.
Creeks and wetland remain dry. This drought worsens and is impacting all plants and animals. We've placed more containers of fresh water in the bush and set a camera.
Creeks and wetland remain dry. We've put containers of fresh water out in the bush and set a camera. Part B of our earlier ‘Spying on Birds’.
We The bush is dry. We've placed a container of fresh water out and set a camera to find out who turns up in the dry. Birds. Lots of birds. Take some time to watch the amazing number of birds using our water refuge.
Jac has an encounter with a male goanna which takes a liking to Jac. Jac is not impressed and lays there while the male lays on top seemingly biting the back of Jac. See what happens.
Yellow-tailed black cockatoo flying over. These large birds are seen here often. They feed on a range of foods including grubs in trees where they listen to the grub before tearing the bark off the tree to get the grub.
Red-necked wallaby mother with her advanced joey playing affectionately. So cute!
The joey is still feeding from the mother still and won’t be long in the pouch now.
2023 became a very hot and dry year once more. Wetlands, ponds, streams and springs dried out. With no available fresh water for the wildlife we placed containers of water in the bush and set a camera. The animals came …
Plumed whistling ducks fly into Istari in the early morning at first light and leave in the last light of the day.
Goannas are smart animals and will make every effort to find a way into the chicken coop if they can. Did you know that goannas can jump, a bit like a dog. Watch and see.
Koalas are beautiful animals. We have them as regular visitors to Istari however they are endangered due to the loss of habitat, disease and car strike.
Males will pursue the females, sometimes to the annoyance of the female. Koalas will call through the forest looking for a mate. We have not heard this sound from a koala before.