Animals

Lace Monitor, Varanus varius. Paul captured this very large animal in the Alberton State forest recently (with his camera that is!!)

Lesser Long-eared bat, Nyctophilus geoffroyi, at Kaye & Roy Proudley's house

Feathertail Glider, Acrobates pygmaeus, from the Burramyidae family at Mark Wouters place. These are the smallest gliding possums and also the smallest gliding mammals in the world

Sugar Glider, Petaurus breviceps, Family Petauridae at Kaye & Roy Proudley's house eating a ghost moth. Their body measures about 15-20cm and their tail up to 19cm and weigh about 140gr

Feathertail Glider, Acrobates pygmaeus, at Mark Wouters place. The only mammal with a brush-type tail. It is believed to be common in some parts of its range but not so much here

Koala, Phascolarctos cinereus, Family Phascolarctidae, one of the residents at Margaret Ferguson's property and one of the Strzelecki strain of Koala's (genetically purest in Victoria)

Lesser Long-eared Bat, Nyctophilus geoffroyi, Family Vespertilionidae. One of the most common and urbanised microbats in Australia, it weighs on average just 8 grams

Lesser long-eared Bat, Nyctophilus geoffroyi, Family Vespertilionidae, POSSIBLY

Common Brushtail Possum, Trichosurus vulpecula, Family Phalangeridae

Echidna, Tachyglossus aculeatus, Family Tachyglossidae - only member (though there are 4 living species within) and of, this family of monotremes (egg-laying mammals)

Photographs by - Kim Baggaley, Kaye Proudley, Marg Ferguson, Paul Fayolle, Mark Wouter