wildlife in your backyard
. . . feathered friends
Abundant wildlife is resident to Tarkinegrove's grounds as we are surrounded by a variety of habitat of forests, fields, gorges, mountains and rivers.
As an example the bird population in spring October 2019. The following birds were listed by Philip Green, Educator, Naturalist and Photographer. National Geographic Photographer,(published).
Philip stayed with us for two nights and this is what he discovered.
Bird List.
1. Yellow Wattle Bird 2. Green Rosella 3. Pallid Cuckoo 4. Shining Bronze Cuckoo 5. Grey Shrike Thrush 6. Grey Fantail 7. Striated Pardalote 8. Forest Raven 9. Golden Whistler 10. Masked Lapwing
11. Gold Finch 12. Black Bird 13. Common Starling 14. Brown Thornbill 15.Eastern Spinebill 16. Superb (Blue) Fairy-wren 17. Welcome Swallow 18. Sulphur Crested Cockatoo 19. Silvereye 20. Grey Butcher Bird 21. Tasmanian Native Hen 22. House Sparrow 23. Scarlet Robin 24. Brown Falcon 25. Yellow Tailed Black Cockatoo 26. Kookaburra 27. Yellow Throated Honeyeater 28. Wedge Tail Eagle 29. Black Faced Cuckoo Shrike 30. White Faced Heron 31. Black Duck 32. Great Cormorant 33. Fantail Cuckoo 34. Dusky Wood Swallow.
All the following bird photos are taken on the property, some photos are heavily cropped.
Bird enthusiasts, photographers and artists love Tarkinegrove. Stroll to the dam to see the Platypus at dusk or during the day watch the Brown Falcon family soaring the thermals and perhaps the wedgetail eagle or try to count the number of different birds here. See if you can spot 'Rufus', the Scarlet Robin, the Green Rosellas or Mr Spinebill. If you are lucky you can see the rare and protected giant freshwater lobster, Tayatea from the bridges that traverse the spring fed stream or in the dam but at night the action starts. Truly wild our Tasmanian Devil family' ... we give names to each member...and our Spotted Tail Quolls come out to feed. You may hear their screams during the night whilst Pademelons (wallabies), Eastern Barred Bandicoot and Possums will visit your grassed area around the cottage. Many of these critters are resident others are seasonal. And since we are so far away from any light pollution, the night's sky is iridescent. Our guests are saying "a truly peaceful place".
