The Cape York Animal Count

Only the Monitor Lizard in the previous post (below) was captured on camera but as we rumbled up and down Cape York in Landie we saw:

Small snakes, dead and alive, were spotted on the road, the former being a little broader than the latter;

Small kangaroos bounced off into the roadside scrub before 9am most mornings;

Birds included: Cockatoos, Red-tailed Black Cockatoos, Laughing Kookaburras; Kite; Sea Eagle; Galah; Rainbow Bee-eater; White Ibis; Lorikeet;

One saltie 400 metres away;

One skinny rather dishevelled dingo loped into the road ahead, paused to look at Landie, then darted into the bush;

Monitor Lizards;

Then when back in Cairns ……

…………. butterflies in Cairns Botanic Gardens.

 

 

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