Australis
Almost Legendary
Mt Etna, CQ, 2007/8.
Mt Etna, CQ, 2007/8.
This National Park has restricted access during the bat season.
Some of these photos are from a visit to the area outside of bat season during the day time.
The trail up Mt Etna, through dry rainforest habitat that covers most of the elevated areas.
View from near the top of Mt Etna, you can see where much of the mountain had been mined for its lime.
Little bent-winged bats (Miniopterus australis) exit the bat cleft.
The Cleft during the day
Little bent-winged bats (Miniopterus australis) dodge predators like the Brown Tree Snake (Boiga irregularis)
Spotted pythons (A.maculosa) are the most prolific species feeding on the bats
Spotted python (A.maculosa)
Green Tree Frog (Litoria caerulea) another common species around the cleft which also feeds on the bats, there were several Carpet Pythons also but out of range of my camera.
Critters had been hard at work building webs over the trail in the short time we had been at the cleft.
The cleft during my first visit in 2007 during the day time.
Cheers,
Matt
Mt Etna, CQ, 2007/8.
This National Park has restricted access during the bat season.
Some of these photos are from a visit to the area outside of bat season during the day time.
The trail up Mt Etna, through dry rainforest habitat that covers most of the elevated areas.
View from near the top of Mt Etna, you can see where much of the mountain had been mined for its lime.
Little bent-winged bats (Miniopterus australis) exit the bat cleft.
The Cleft during the day
Little bent-winged bats (Miniopterus australis) dodge predators like the Brown Tree Snake (Boiga irregularis)
Spotted pythons (A.maculosa) are the most prolific species feeding on the bats
Spotted python (A.maculosa)
Green Tree Frog (Litoria caerulea) another common species around the cleft which also feeds on the bats, there were several Carpet Pythons also but out of range of my camera.
Critters had been hard at work building webs over the trail in the short time we had been at the cleft.
The cleft during my first visit in 2007 during the day time.
Cheers,
Matt
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