Frog Rescue – The Banjo Frog and the Bleating Toadlet – Great Southern – Western Australia
UPDATE! IN QUITE A FEW OF MY PREVIOUS VIDEOS I REFERRED TO THE BLEATING TOADLET AS THE WESTERN TOADLET… WELL I WAS INCORRECT … A VERY SIMILAR SPECIES BUT THE WESTERN TOADLET IS MORE EAST AND INLAND FROM MY AREA IN THE GREAT SOUTHERN REGION OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA… MY APOLOGIES, IT IS ACTUALLY THE BLEATING TOADLET … SEE INFO HERE:
http://museum.wa.gov.au/explore/frogwatch/frogs/bleating-froglet
Frogs & Tadpoles of the Upper Great Southern Region – South East Western Australia
Western Toadlet | Western Australian Museum
http://museum.wa.gov.au/explore/frogwatch/frogs/western-toadlet
Frogs & Tadpoles of the Upper Great Southern Region – South East Western Australia
Giant Mutant Rare Western Spotted Frog Caught at Contaminated Toxic Rubbish Dump
Spotlighting the Very Rare Dumbleyungus Corruptus Shireus Western Spotted Frog
Dumbleyungus Corruptus Shireus ( Shire of Dumbleyung, Kukerin – Exposing its Workers, the Town Residents, the Children to Deadly Chemicals, Pesticides, Asbestos – Turning a Blind Eye! )
Frogs & Tadpoles of the Upper Great Southern Region – South East Western Australia
Western Australian Flora, Wild Flowers, Orchids, Tree and Plant Species – Great Southern Region
Insects, Butterfly’s & Moths of the Upper Great Southern Western Australia
Western Australian Creepy Crawlies
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Catching Some Native Bleating Toadlet Tadpoles in an Ancient Aboriginal Water Spring
A Tree Full of Water! – Old Brass Tap on Tree used by Wood Cutters & Early Pioneers for Fresh Water
Outback Survival Tip – The Australian Water Tree – these trees are all around Australia, if you ever get lost in the Australian Bush or in the Outback – keep an eye out for the Australian Water Tree, they always have these large bumps or bulbs on them… usually they will carry around 50 litres of fresh water to survive on. They have saved many a life in the Aussie Bush! Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AV7KrKj0Jg
A Tree Full of Water! – Old Brass Tap on Tree used by Wood Cutters & Early Pioneers for Fresh Water
White Faced Heron – Egretta novaehollandiae Ardeidae – The Great Southern – Western Australia
If I have made a mistake identifying this bird, please let me know!
The White-faced Heron is particularly versatile. It can be seen in many different wetland habitats: they occur on reefs, in rock pools and mudflats by the coast, in estuaries and saltmarsh, swamps, rivers, drains and at farm dams; they even occur in pasture and hypersaline wetlands. There they can be seen foraging for a wide range of prey, mostly small aquatic creatures, using various methods, including standing and waiting for their prey, slowly stalking it, frantically dashing after it, or disturbing it by stirring the water with their feet.
Description
The White-faced Heron is mostly light blue-grey in colour, with a characteristic white face. In flight, the dark flight feathers of the wing contrast with the paler grey plumage, making this bird easily identifiable when viewed from below. It has a long, slim neck and a pointed grey-black bill. The legs are long and dull yellow in colour. Sexes are similar. When breeding, the birds have long feathers (nuptial plumes) on the head, neck and back. The White-faced Heron has a slow bouncing flight. Young White-faced Herons are similar in appearance to the non-breeding adults (no nuptial plumes), but are duller, with little or no white on the face. They often have a reddish colour on the underparts.
Distribution
White-faced Herons are the most commonly seen herons in Australia. They are found throughout the mainland and Tasmania, and most coastal islands. They also occur in Indonesia, New Guinea, New Caledonia and New Zealand.
Feeding
The White-faced Heron feeds on a wide variety of prey, including fish, insects and amphibians. Food is obtained in a variety of ways, such as walking and disturbing prey, searching among damp crevices or simply standing in the water and watching for movement.
Breeding
White-faced Herons may breed outside the breeding season in response to rainfall. Both sexes share the building of the nest, incubation of the eggs and care of the young. The nest is an untidy structure of sticks, placed in a tree. Normally only one brood of young is raised in a year.
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Australian Wood Duck (Maned Duck) – Chenonetta jubata Anatidae – Great Southern – Western Australia
The Australian Wood Duck has adapted to modified environments remarkably well. You are just as Australian Wood Ducks loafing at the edge of a farm dam or ornamental pond as beside a swamp, or swimming on a reservoir as on a lake, or foraging on a golf course or in green pasture as in a water meadow or grassland. They even sometimes build their nests in chimneys instead of tree hollows. This level of adaptability has allowed the species to expand its range greatly since Europeans colonised Australia.\
Description
The Australian Wood Duck is a medium-sized ‘goose-like’ duck with a dark brown head and a pale grey body with two black stripes along the back. Males have the darker head and a small dark mane, with a speckled brown-grey breast and a black lower belly and undertail. The females have a paler head with two white stripes, above and below the eye, a speckled breast and flanks, with a white lower belly and undertail. In flight, the wings are pale grey above, contrasting with black wingtips, and have a noticeable white bar on the underside (the secondaries). They walk easily on land and may be seen perching on logs and in trees. They will only take to open water when disturbed. This species is also known as the Maned Duck or the Maned Goose.
Similar Species
The Australian Wood Duck can be distinguished from pygmy geese,Nettapus spp, which are smaller, have bold white face markings and are usually seen on water. Whistling ducks, Dendrocygna spp, have longer legs and necks, larger more duck-like bills and tend to walk more upright. When flying, the Australian Wood Duck is the only duck with white secondary feathers and dark wingtips.
Distribution
The Australian Wood Duck is widespread in Australia, including Tasmania.
Habitat
The Australian Wood Duck is found in grasslands, open woodlands, wetlands, flooded pastures and along the coast in inlets and bays. It is also common on farmland with dams, as well as around rice fields, sewage ponds and in urban parks. It will often be found around deeper lakes that may be unsuitable for other waterbirds’ foraging, as it prefers to forage on land.
Feeding
The Australian Wood Duck eats grasses, clover and other herbs, and occasionally, insects. It is rarely seen on open water, preferring to forage by dabbling in shallow water, or in grasslands and crops.
Breeding
The Australian Wood Duck forms monogamous breeding pairs that stay together year round. It nests in tree holes, above or near water, often re-using the same site. Both parents feed young and young birds remain with them up to a month after fledging.
Barefoot Salt Lake Walk – Fossilized Salt Encrusted Insects – 1893 Kalgoorlie Gold Rush Route
These salt lakes are what remain of the ancient river systems. These fill up and even flood during heavy rainfall that occurs every few years. This gives rise to a plethora of life, such as invertebrates and fish, which in turn attract large colonies of waterbirds who breed while food and water resources are plentiful.
Other early accounts describe a road across this lake South of Dumbleyung and was used by Katanning settlers to cart produce to the goldfields in the 1890s. This was the opportunity for local farmers to make a fortune as quickly as the miners. They would load their wagons with flour, sugar, oatmeal, jam and baking flour and when they got to the goldfields actually auction their produce.
Prospectors Pushing Wheel Barrows to the Kalgoorlie Gold Rush of 1893
http://museum.wa.gov.au/explore/wa-goldfields/rush-gold/on-track
Western Australian gold rushes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Australian_gold_rushes
First Dumbleyung Explorer – Henry Maxwell Lefroy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Maxwell_Lefroy
Dumbleyung – Western Australia
Dumbleyung (including Lake Dumbleyung)
Small wheatbelt town with famous lake nearby
Dumbleyung is a small wheatbelt town located 275 km south east of Perth. No one knows exactly how the town got its name but it is likely that it is a corruption of the local Aboriginal word ‘dambeling’ which probably meant ‘large stretch of water’. An alternative theory argues that it may well be derived from ‘dumbung’ which either meant a native pear tree or an Aboriginal game played with bent sticks and a hard piece of fruit.
Although in many ways Dumbleyung is a typical wheatbelt town there is one event in its history which makes it uniquely important and separates it from the dozens of other towns in the area.
On New Years Eve 1964, after a particularly wet winter had seen the lake fill to overflowing, Donald Campbell set the world water speed record when he raced his boat Bluebird across the lake at the remarkable speed of 444.66 km/h (276.3 mph). This made him the fastest man both on land and on water. A unique double.
A memorial to Donald Campbell’s achievements is located on Pussy Cat Hill on the lake shoreline. Offering excellent views over the lake, it is clearly signposted ‘Scenic Drive – Lake Dumbleyung’ on the road from Wagin to Dumbleyung.
Lake Dumbleyung, undoubtedly the area’s great attraction, is the largest natural body of inland water in West Australia. It is approximately 13 km long by 6.5 km wide with a catchment area which extends approximately 64 km north towards Kulin, 64 km south towards Narrangerup and 55 km east to Tarin Rock.
In the years when it overflows the water takes a course through the Wagin Lakes into the Beaufort River, thence the Blackwood and into the sea at Augusta.
The first recorded sighting of the lake was in 1843 when two explorers Henry Landor and Henry Maxwell Lefroy travelled through the area looking for pastoral lands and a large body of water which had been mentioned by the local Aborigines.
Landor and Lefroy described Lake Dumbleyung in their journal entry for 17 January 1843. ‘After riding 10 miles, we came in sight of Dambeling, the largest of the lakes – 13 miles by 7 or 8. It is like the others, shallow with many low islands in varied and beautiful form. On the northern and eastern shores, there is a good grazing country down to the lake, ending in precipitous banks and extending over the hills 2 or 3 miles distant from the lake. The water is salt and the shore long, flat and muddy, on which we saw the impressions of two stray horses and a foal…’
Read the rest here:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Western-Australia/Dumbleyung/2005/02/17/1108500208410.html
White-faced Heron – Egretta novaehollandiae Ardeidae – The Great Southern – Western Australia
If I have made a mistake identifying this bird, please let me know!
The White-faced Heron is particularly versatile. It can be seen in many different wetland habitats: they occur on reefs, in rock pools and mudflats by the coast, in estuaries and saltmarsh, swamps, rivers, drains and at farm dams; they even occur in pasture and hypersaline wetlands. There they can be seen foraging for a wide range of prey, mostly small aquatic creatures, using various methods, including standing and waiting for their prey, slowly stalking it, frantically dashing after it, or disturbing it by stirring the water with their feet.
Description
The White-faced Heron is mostly light blue-grey in colour, with a characteristic white face. In flight, the dark flight feathers of the wing contrast with the paler grey plumage, making this bird easily identifiable when viewed from below. It has a long, slim neck and a pointed grey-black bill. The legs are long and dull yellow in colour. Sexes are similar. When breeding, the birds have long feathers (nuptial plumes) on the head, neck and back. The White-faced Heron has a slow bouncing flight. Young White-faced Herons are similar in appearance to the non-breeding adults (no nuptial plumes), but are duller, with little or no white on the face. They often have a reddish colour on the underparts.
Distribution
White-faced Herons are the most commonly seen herons in Australia. They are found throughout the mainland and Tasmania, and most coastal islands. They also occur in Indonesia, New Guinea, New Caledonia and New Zealand.
Feeding
The White-faced Heron feeds on a wide variety of prey, including fish, insects and amphibians. Food is obtained in a variety of ways, such as walking and disturbing prey, searching among damp crevices or simply standing in the water and watching for movement.
Breeding
White-faced Herons may breed outside the breeding season in response to rainfall. Both sexes share the building of the nest, incubation of the eggs and care of the young. The nest is an untidy structure of sticks, placed in a tree. Normally only one brood of young is raised in a year.
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