Larena Woodmore

I'll never get used to crossing paths with a platypus in my own garden. #platypus #tasmania #TasmanianAnimals #australianwildlife

It's always exciting when a camera trap captures a platypus. When one's in the water a layer of air and water on its fur makes it too cold to trigger the sensors, but this one climbed right out of the water. #platypus #australiananimals #Tasmania #monotremes #nature #cameratrap #trailcam #wildlife

Potoroos & bandicoots are overjoyed that it's mushroom season and are digging little (and some not-so-little) holes absolutely everywhere. The holes help water penetration, provide a place for seeds to land and germinate, and digging helps spread fungal spores. #Tasmania #AusAnimals #Potoroo #Nature

Is eastern spinebill season! I love the markings on these little guys. #EasternSpinebill #honeater #AustralianBird #Tasmania #Autumn

A couple of nights ago we had the first rain in a long time, causing lots of frogs to climb out of the ferns and up the loungeroom window. #Nature #Frogs #Amphibians #Herps #Tasmania #Rain #auswildlife

I was never conscious until now that average Australians generally avoid gratuitously interfering with wildlife. I like the fact that if you do engage in this kind of idiotic behaviour here, you’ll be slammed for it. Makes me proud to be Australian. #wombats #dickheadinfluencers

The turbo chooks found the paddling pool (or "paddy pool") that we put out for the pademelons, wallabies and possums to drink from, and they're pretty happy with it. #Tasmania #NativeHen #TurboChook #Wildlife

Our creek's water level is quite low at the moment, but this hasn't stopped a giant freshwater crayfish (Astacopsis gouldi) from hanging out in one of the deeper pools. It's the biggest one I've seen for quite a while. #Tasmania #ausinverts #AstacopsisGouldi #Crayfish #Freshwater #Nature #Endangered

Why I do what I do. All the ticks & leeches & scratches and itchy bites.... all forgotten. All the bills & responsibilities & horrors in the news.... all forgotten. My fears for the future, for all the Earthlings, my anger at political corruption... all forgotten. Enjoy the moments like this :)

This morning I saw the most amazing spider webs hanging in the rushes. Up close, they look man-made. I couldn't find the spiders, so I don't know who these belong to. #Nature #Spiders #Spiderweb #Arachnids #Tasmania #Australia

We put a trap out to catch a mouse that's been running around on the verandah. No luck, but if the possum had been able to get in it would have. With no moving parts, pokes from a possum don't disable this type of trap. #BrushtailPossum #MouseTrap #Wildlife #Australia #Tasmania #australiananimals

The robins are back! There weren't many last year but now there are are lots of scarlet and flame robins about. This photo of a male scarlet is the reason there's an old piece of plumbing pipe propped outside the dining room window. #robins #australianbirds #Tasmania #redbirds #nature

I just teleported like a cat that has seen a cucumber, and also made a whole new noise. Nearly trod on a tiger snake. 😬

In #Tasmania? How about marking #WorldWetlandsDay by getting into the CallTrackers project? Help map & monitor elusive, Endangered Australasian Bittern booms, bat chirps & more. It's a fun adventure with a super-cool #bioacoustics gadget... 📷 Helen Cunningham 🦇🎙️ #citsci #CallTrackers

Australia approved clearing of ~26,000 hectares of #threatenedspecies habitat in 2024. At the same time, incentives for private land owners to protect or enhance habitat remain ineffective. This is a trajectory we must change for everyone’s sake.

Sometimes the Bennett's wallabies make a head start on the pademelons, coming out to eat before dusk. This one was snacking outside the lounge room window until he was distracted by a female. #Macropods #australiananimals #Wallaby #Marsupials #Tasmania #Wildlife #Nature

It's always a pleasure to be in @nhm-london.bsky.social mainly to visit their perfectly overstuffed #echidna, which is mounted with its belly almost flat to the ground and its feet pointing in the wrong direction (its back feet should point backwards). #Echidnas #taxidermy

An all-black baby #TasmanianDevil pops back out into the world. #fieldwork #Tasmania #MammalWatching #WildOz #TasmanianDevils

#Marasmius #mushrooms are already awesome, so to find one with a #slime mold on its stipe, was fantastic! I think a #Craterium perhaps dictyosporum. #fungifriends

When you look closely at insects, they really are like something from scifi/horror. This gusteruption wasp has unsheathed her ovipositor and is laying eggs in the nest of a solitary bee. Guess what happens to the bee babies next? #Insects #auswildlife #Horror #Wasps #Bees #Aliens

Although not native, our massive salvia bush is appreciated by the birds. Fairy wrens live and breed in it and the Eastern spinebills love the flowers. Shame they won't turn and face the camera though! #australianbirds #Tasmania #Spinebill #Birds #Nature

When lots of birds shout at once there's usually a raptor about. Today it was one of our two resident grey goshawks, high in the trees. Tasmanian ones are the white form of the species. #Goshawk #Raptor #AustralianBirds #Tasmania #White #WhiteBird #Nature

Often the best way to spot a #platypus is to look for the cloud of mud they kick up while they're foraging underwater. #fieldwork #Tasmania #MammalWatching #WildOz #platypuses

Processing photos today, I realised I've found the 500th species at my home - this nice little cuckoo wasp. Not bad for just three years. #Biodiversity #Tasmania #Insect #Wasp #Metallic #australianinvertebrates

There's a very pretty orange & blue giant freshwater crayfish - Astacopsis gouldi - in our creek today. A bit hard to photograph, though, since it was in an undercut beneath my feet. #Tasmania #Crayfish #AstacopsisGouldi #Nature #ausinverts #Endangered

I made Platypus & Tasmanian devil gingerbread for a Christmas party. 😁 #AustralianAnimals #Platypus #Tasmania #TasmanianDevil #ChristmasBaking #Gingerbread

First Christmas Beetle - Lamprima aurata - of the season. This one is reddish gold in the sunlight but when moved to the shade it looks green. Last year I mainly saw pink ones. #Nature #Beetles #Tasmania #Insects #Metallic #australianinvertebrates #ChristmasBeetle

Suggestion for a niche art exhibition: a collection of #TasmanianDevil snoots. #fieldwork #Tasmania #MammalWatching #WildOz #TasmanianDevils

The pardalotes are back to feed their babies. Today's meal options are insect larva or spider. #Pardalotes #StriatedPardalotes #TasmanianBirds #Tasmania #AustralianBirds #Wildlife #Nature #Birds #ausbirds

On this drizzly day, the pardalote babies are warm and comfy (and a bit noisy) in the walls of my study but the parents still need to go out to collect food. #Pardalotes #StriatedPardalotes #TasmanianBirds #Tasmania #AustralianBirds #Wildlife #Nature #Birds #ausbirds

For #MacropodMonday, did you know that pademelons move about the forest on invisible hoverbikes? No? Well here's the evidence. #Pademelon #Marsupial #Tasmania #Macropod #Mammal #Wildlife #Nature #auswildlife #Funny

Red-Necked Wallaby loving life #wallaby #Australia #nature #wildlife #tasmania #photography

Why makes rules that are impossible to follow? This sign forbids you from giving your heart to a #wombat. 🧡 #WombatWednesday #fieldwork #Tasmania #wombats #MammalWatching #WildOz

Common Wombat #wombat #Australia #nature #tasmania #wildlife #photography

There's a platypus in our dam so it must be #WebFootWednesday !! It's raining so I only had a little camera with me. #Platypus #Monotreme #Tasmania #TasmanianMammal #AquaticMammal #Nature #Wildlife #ausmammals

Shining Bronze Cuckoo A small cuckoo with irridescent green upper parts, white underparts with bold dark, mostly unbroken barring , and a very white face with fine, dark mottling. Strange Fact: a bird likely to suffer "bird strike" into glass where it chases insects in windows 😢

Until I saw this Bennetts Wallaby do this, I had no idea that macropods sometimes like to just sit on their tails and relax. #MacropodMonday #Wallaby #Macropod #BennetsWallaby #TasmanianAnimals #Marsupial #Australia #Tasmania #Wildlife #Nature #ausmammals

I just checked the camera at the quoll spot we have a new young one. By comparing unique spot patterns I've identified at least 21 individual spotted-tailed quolls in the three years we've lived here. #TasmanianAnimals #Tasmania #Quoll #SpottedTailedQuoll #Marsupial #AustralianAnimals #ausmammals

I've created a Citizen Science feed! Many thanks indeed to @markrubin.bsky.social Hoping people find it handy 🧪🌏🌿🦉 #CitizenScience #CitSci bsky.app/profile/did:...

Short-beaked echidna. #Echidna #WildlifePhotography #ShortBeakedEchidna #AustralianWildlife #NatureLovers #UniqueAnimals #WildlifePerfection #CuteCritters #NaturePhotography #WildAndFree #AnimalLovers #SpikyFriend #WildlifeOfAustralia #EchidnaLove #NatureIsBeautiful

Sulphur-crested cockatoo, Southern highlands. #auswildlife #ausbirds #birds #wildlife

Releasing young healthy #TasmanianDevils, like this seven-month-old male, always makes you feel hopeful for the future of this incredible endangered species. Stay safe, little guy! #fieldwork #Tasmania #MammalWatching #WildOz

For anyone that hasn't seen enough echidna snoots today. #Echidna #Nature #Tasmania #TasmanianAnimals #Monotreme #AustralianAnimals #Wildlife #australianmammals

Echidnas are everywhere are the moment. This one's visited a few times to clean up the ants around an old retaining wall. #Tasmania #Echidna #Monotreme #Nature #AustralianMammals #australianwildlife

Just some “happy” #wildoz babies for your feed