platypus
Platypus have lived in our part of Running Creek (Scenic Rim, Queensland) for many years, but during the first half of each year they can be a little unpredictable, turning up in several places along our kilometre of creek frontage. Around the middle of the year they seem to settle down to the serious business of deciding where they’ll be nesting and then raising their young. Wherever we see them appearing several times a week in July tends to be where we’ll then be seeing them for the rest of the year. This time it is in a spot we can walk to within half a minute from our Wildlife Ecology Centre and watch quietly from the cliffs above.