At the water in July 2019
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- A selection of visitors to the water in July 2019;
Red necked wallaby (Macropus rufogriseus), laughing kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae), white-eared honeyeater (Lichenostomus leucotis), feathertail glider (Acrobates pygmaeus), squirrel glider (Petaurus norfolcensis), short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus), wallaroo (Macropus robustus), striped honeyeater (Plectorhyncha lanceolata), buff-rumped thornbill (Acanthiza reguloides), Brown-headed honeyeater (Melithreptus brevirostris), grey butcherbird (Cracticus torquatus), black-striped wallaby (Macropus dorsalis), forester/eastern grey kangaroo (Macropus giganteus)
The roo is like, do you want to eat my ticks too? Lol
This was also a beautiful video. You can clearly see in this video that animals respect each other in the warmth where water is very little and in case of need they accept each other and I found that very special to see.
So peaceful to see animals having a drink together.
Hi Thanks Creek so many little creatures depending on that water trough,I loved seeing all the different creatures from your part of the world... Australia has a special beauty Blessings xxxshaz 🙋🙏🌿💚🌿
Thank you Kingstone8 :) Australia is blessed, but sadly Australians are terrible guardians of our unique flora and fauna.... Queensland has the 3rd highest rate of land clearing in the world, and a shocking rate of mammal extinction, with one of the highest loss of species globally.
@@GubanaNatureRefuge *That is to say Australians of European (etc) descent.
Aboriginals would not have had it as such, were it left solely to them as custodians of the indigenous species of flora and fauna.
Lil wallaby telling the kookaburra " Hey mate , I'm drinking your bath water "
THANK YOU ALL for loving the animals and giving them water BLESS U ALL
Providing water to thirsty animals like that is something I want to do. There are kangaroos thirsting and dying because some seasons are too dry. There are also other animals in need.
Wallabies are such beautiful animals
Hello Normi, I couldn't agree more! Have a marvellous week :)
Love the vid my next trip to AUS (Next March) I really wanna get in sone bird watching time and of course other animals too
Wow so many different types of animals 👍👌
Love your vids ......thankyou for helping out our wildlife.......wish there were more people like you .....bless you 🥰
Hello Annette, thank you for your support and kind comment - have a marvellous week :)
Truly a battle of the ages.
The classic scene from the deep ancient down under..
0:04 “you got a staring problem asshole” 😂😂😂
Awesome!
So many wild life hanging out at the water cooler. Why not have lot more water tanks for them to drink so they don’t compete?
Thank you so much for posting.
Even though the trees are a little green than later, it is still terrible. I am morbidly curious, was the water out when the kangaroos were there in the end? They did not dive in like the others. It was so nice to see your newly posted koala video.
Hello CS, thank you for your support and kind encouragement. There was still plenty of water; kangaroos are far more flighty than the wallabies, and with good reason. Landowners (and passing urban cowboys) are likely to shoot at kangaroos on sight, usually illegally and with no good reason. The kangaroo population in this area is not excessive, particularly following last year's catastrophic summer.
No ticks on wallaby?
Winter
Wallaroo?? As in wallabies and kangaroos had babies together??
Where are the ticks?!
Winter...
How do you replenish the water, is there a well nearby that pumps up and into the tank, or do you need to pop by with a water truck?
Hello TG, thank you for the question. At the beginning of the drought we were just carting water out every weekend, but as the Positive Indian Ocean Dipole event tightened its grip, temperatures rose to become ludicrous, months passed without rain and the sheer numbers of wildlife depending on the water became immense. We ended up setting up 200L barrels with float valves to keep the water containers full, and at the peak of the drought in January 2020 we were carting around 1000L a week from 100km away.
Thank you for your dedication and hard work. I can't imagine how the animals would survive without you all.
@@GubanaNatureRefuge Wow, that's an amazing effort! Thank you all so very much. I wish I could help out.
I take it that the creek running through the area is dry? How often is it this way?
Hello Andy, the creek is seasonal, and used to run from late spring, throughout summer (when the majority of Queensland rainfall falls) and into to early autumn . Although the creek periodically dried up on the surface, it would always continue to run underground, and the deeper lagoons never ran dry - until last year. The 2019/2020 drought was the most severe in living memory, and all natural water sources disappeared, some for the first time (according to local farming families). 500 year old eucalypts died, including those in riparian areas adjoining the creek. Currently 67.4% of Queensland is drought declared, and the local situation is deteriorating rapidly; last week we had the first fires of the season, horrifyingly early. So I guess the short answer is; it's usually dry, but not this dry for this long.
@@GubanaNatureRefuge I'm probably playing whack a mole with this question, but does this depend on the Great Artesian Basin? I heard that Adani's mine threatened to use huge amounts of water from the Basin, and I wondered if it and other drains on the water table were contributing in your area, even if it's down south near the NSW border.
@@andyl8055 Hi Andy, the property is on the Warwick basalts network of aquifers, part of the Upper Condamine basalts which are indeed believed to be in direct hydraulic contact with the Great Artesian Basin. The upper weathered basalt historically fed creek beds throughout dry periods, with rainfall on the Main Range taking as long as 4-7 months to recharge deep bores in the lower basalt beneath the clay alluvia, before continuing into the intake beds of the Great Artesian Basin. I am completely ignorant about hydrology, but I surmise that given the amount of time it takes water to percolate down into the deeper basalt layers, the flow into the upper basalt and creek beds is mostly dependant on the rate of rainfall over the Main Range National Park minus the extent of water extraction from bores in the Upper Condamine basalts, with the water level in aquifers demonstrating a close correlation with rainfall events and pumping for irrigation. Having said that, I personally believe that we have not yet even begun to understand the dynamics of the Great Artesian Basin. Emptying one part of an interconnected system of aquifers must have grave effects on the system as a whole.
@@GubanaNatureRefuge "completely ignorant about hydrology..." and then goes on to display a reasonable grasp of some of the likely inputs to the local water table.
Do you know if irrigation transfers have been increasing? I would expect that drought and irrigation would be the biggest impacts here.
@@andyl8055 Hi Andy, the Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy lists 99 water licences on the Warwick basalts in 2020, totalling a volume of 3,364 ML which seems very odd given that in 2018 the Department listed 228 licences totalling 9677ML.... there is no explanation given for this rather significant change, and it makes one frankly sceptical. Possibly a moot point, because in reality, the licenced water extraction and realised water extraction are very different beasts; water theft goes largely unpunished and the Department's monitoring bores on the Warwick basalts are poorly placed to detect unlicensed pumping, given that they are very distant from the major sites of extraction. It cannot be disguised however that long term aquifer storage has fallen across all the basalt aquifers.
Some cat traps would be nice to see!!!!.
Hello Janusfire, the feral cats are devilishly difficult to trap. We have had limited success using cat urine lure and sardines, but have only trapped about a quarter of the cats which have appeared on the cameras.
@@GubanaNatureRefuge 1/4 it`s a high rate for cats...it`s expensive a simulated nest with a speaker with little birds noise on it???...the final trick obviously it`s the bait...but operating only at night can help.
@@janusfire The biggest impediment to trapping is the goannas - they rob the traps and/or set them off, so we can really only set cat traps in winter when the goannas are inactive, and therefore we miss the peak kitten season. That said, the goannas do clean up a lot of kittens ....
Animals are so rude, they have to put their butts on or in everything lol