Mammal report 
...Trevor Pescott 
Mammal Atlas additions 
Short-beaked Echidna 
1 
25/10/12 
Noted crossing the Skipton-Shelford Road. 
AW 
1 
30/11/12 
Buckley Falls Park, photographed in the Manna Gum Woodland, 
Fyansford. 
NTu 
1 
05/12/12 
Whinray Road, Meredith, in regenerating woodland; it hid under a small 
bushy eucalypt when disturbed. 
WCo 
13/01/13 
A young animal with soft-looking fur but no spines found in a pile of mulch 
near Anglesea; an adult was seen about 200 m away an hour earlier, 
possibly the parent of the young one. 
AW 
1 
13/01/13 
Otway Ranges: on the side of Erskine Falls Road at Blanketleaf Picnic 
Ground, at 1.30 p.m. 
SI,TP 
Dusky Antechinus 
1 
24/12/12 
Observed at Yaugher. 
TP 
Koala 
1 
19/11/12 
Maude, sitting beside the road at the north side of township. 
WCo, 
KCo, OCo 
1 
24/11/12 
Whinray Road, Meredith; in windbreak near house. Heard grunting at 
8.00 a.m., then found sitting in a low fork of a tree. Noted its left eye was 
missing and there was a bald patch around the chest gland. At 4.00 p.m. it 
was asleep in a slightly higher fork, and awake at 7.00 p.m. It had 
disappeared by the following morning. 
WCo 
1 
01/12/12 
Yaugher; reportedly seen along Boundary Rd near Caspers Access. 
JBe 
2 
06/12/12 
Little River picnic ground, Brisbane Ranges, at least two heard grunting. 
SI,TP 
1 
14/01/13 
In Forrest between Grant Street and Turner Drive beside the Colac Road at 
2.00 a.m. 
JBe 
Common Ringtail Possum 
1 
30/11/12 
North Valley Road, Highton, on telephone wires at night, illuminated by 
lightning flashes before heavy rain began. 
VWD 
Long-nosed Potoroo 
1 
09/01/13 
Yaugher, observed near house. 
TP 
Black (Swamp) Wallaby 
1 
02/12/12 
Aston Creek near Meredith; sitting in dense vegetation. ‘It was looking in 
my direction, sniffing the air; it heard me move but still stayed where it was. 
It had battered ears, grey muzzle, and possibly poor eyesight.’ 
WCo 
Bat sp. 
08/01/13 
You Yangs; many roosting in the ceiling of the Information Centre. The 
species has not been determined but they may be Lesser Long-eared or 
Gould’s Wattled. 
JLo,TP 
Swamp Rat 
09/01/13 
Yaugher, noted near house. 
TP 
Australian Fur Seal 
1 
20/12/12 
A half-grown individual asleep on the rocky beach between Bells and 
WCo, 
Southside. 
CCo 
Feral Goat 
1 
06/12/12 
Brisbane Ranges, found dead on dry creek bed below the Little River picnic 
ground. 
SI,TP 
Thirsty nights 
T o test how well the Club’s Pix Controllers 
cameras are working, I focused one on a 
small waterhole near our house at Yaugher for 
several nights early in January, during a spell of 
hot weather. 
I was astonished to find these four species were 
using the water—it points out just how important 
the water is to mammals. The Feral Cat, Short- 
beaked Echidna and Bush Rat where 
photographed only once, but the Common 
Ringtail Possum was ‘caught’ several times. 
Perhaps there was more than one individual. 
One or two possums live in the roof of our house 
and we hear them running along the spouting to 
an overhanging branch about an hour after 
dark—well, I don’t hear them but they send our 
Jack Russell into an absolute frenzy, and that 
tells me they are leaving for the night. They 
return just before daylight. 
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Common Ringtail Possum 
4 Geelong Naturalist February 2012 
