Girralong Rainforest Retreat is patrolled by a healthy population of lace monitors (Varanus varius). Reaching 2m in length, these impressive lizards hunt possums and a variety of other animals, and are notorious for raiding birds nests. When approached they typically race up the nearest tree. This individual was foraging amongst some birds-nest ferns near the cottage.
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Some exceptional handiwork was found at Girralong Rainforest Retreat recently. Next to a trail on the way to one of the waterfalls was this exquisite construction of moss and palm fibre decorated with white lichen. Although its makers were absent, from its shape, construction and the egg coloration, it is likely to be the nest of one of two rainforest-dependent flycatchers: Black-faced Monarch or Spectacled Monarch. Both species are summer breeding migrants here from northern Australia-New Guinea, arriving in late winter to early spring where they occupy territories in this beautiful Lowland Subtropical Rainforest.
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