Tasmanian Animals

Many of Tasmania's native animals are nocturnal - but you can be lucky!

The birds, though, are EVERYWHERE!

All prints are mounted on white card at A4 size. Contact Jane for larger prints or framed prints on art paper.

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Caterpillar

This is a caterpillar on a gum leaf in my back garden.  I've tried to find out what it becomes... with no success...
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Green Rosella #1

Green Rosellas are only found in Tasmania. They tend to hang around in family groups chattering quietly to each other. This one was eating seeds from a peppermint gum tree in my front garden.
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Lizard #1

This is one of the family of 'dragon' lizards. This was taken on the Mt Brown walking track in Tasman National Park in southern Tasmania.  If you sneek up on these guys quietly and slowly, you can watch them basking in the sun for a while.
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Echidna #1

Echidna's are wonderful. You can tell this is a Tasmanian echidna because their hairy coat between the spines, is much longer than the animals on the Australian mainland.  Tasmanian ones almost look cuddly - almost. When threatened they burrow down into the earth leaving just their sharp spines to protect them.  We wer very quiet and down wind of this one which was wandering along the Mt Brown track in Tasman Nation Park.
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Grey Fantail #1

The Grey Fantail (Rhipidura fulginosa) is a regular visitor to the vegetable patch. Their aerobatic displays when catching flies are absolutely fascinating. They actually seem to like having a human audience and will fly close to your head and then perch close to you to see what you thought.
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Scarlet Robin

This is a male Scarlet Robin (Petroica multicolor). These guys really appreciate it when you dig the garden.  If they see you digging, they'll hang around, or if they are hungry enough, they'll fly down to pick off insects and spiders. I once had a robin encourage me to start digging by flying repeatedly onto and off the spade handle which was resting against the fence. 

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Christmas Beetle

In December at the start of the Australian Summer, the trees play host to shiny, metalic coloured beetles.  They are known as Christmas beetles (what else?).  This one was seen clambering along a sag-grass seedhead.
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Tiger Quoll

The Tiger Quoll (or Native cat) is a carniverous marsupial. It's nocturnal and about the same size as a cat or small dog - but that's where the similarity ends.The move quite differently walking on all 4 paws but then sitting up. The story behind this shot is: I had taken the ferry to Bruny Island on a winter's day and got so involved with taking photos that I just missed the second last ferry back to the mainland. So I sat in my car in the ferry parking area all by myself as darkness fell. I had the interior light on and was reading when I realised I was not alone. Animals were moving outside.  I though they were possums until I realised they had spots - QUOLL! You don't often get to see these shy creatures. This family group of six animals weren't very shy. They played around me while I was on my own. As soon as other cars arrived, they melted away.