The weather has been a bit warm for enjoyable walking the last few months unless one gets out very early and doesn’t stay too long, as I said a year ago (funny, that) in a post celebrating my return to the Town Common. Yesterday was my first extended, enjoyable, walk there for a couple of months. I drove in to Freshwater bird hide and walked from there to the track junction near Tegoora Rock and back.
It’s looking very lush, of course, and the little wildlife was flourishing – dragonflies and butterflies everywhere, and a variety of smaller insects if one cared to look for them. The wet season has encouraged waterbirds to spread out across the region but there are still quite a few on the Common.
The encounter that made the morning special for me was a Dingo which emerged near me from shrubbery on the edge of a salt-pan, did a very visible double-take on seeing me, and continued past me quite unhurriedly. It’s the first I’ve ever seen there, in all my dozens of visits, but it’s a natural place for them to live and iNaturalist has half a dozen records of sightings in the park.