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Last week I had a quick 36 hour visit to Tasmania to show American friends some birds and mammals. The original plan had been to head for Lake St Clair to look for Devils, but a weather forecast that read "showers in the west, cold winds and snowfalls in the afternoon to 400 metres" persuaded us to look elsewhere. As it was we got hailed on, on Mt Wellington.
From a mammal perspective we saw:
At the Hobart Waterworks: Brush Possums, Red necked Wallabies, Tasmanian Pademelons, two Tasmanian Bettongs and one Eastern Barred Bandicoot.
Along Wielangta Forest Drive south of Orford through to Nugent: about 40 Tasmanian Pademelons, 1 or 2 Bettongs, several Brush Possums.
West of Nugent on the road to Sorell: four Eastern Quoll (including both colour phases)
At my parents' place at Mt Nelson in Hobart: my parents put a bit of food out for mammals, at midnight on Wednesday we had two Long-nosed Potoroos and a Tasmanian Pademelon only a metre away from us, and at the same time a golden phase Brush Possum at the window.
As an aside, how rare are the golden phase possums? I know they are more numerous in Tasmania but I never saw them when I used to live there. One of my photos of one is at http://www.pbase.com/mklord/image/54600346
Did pretty well on the birds, getting all but one of the endemics and getting a few others like Hooded Plover, Pink Robin and Cape Barren Goose.
Murray Lord
Sydney
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