Wildlife Cameras

We have a permit from Parks and Wildlife to deploy 6 wildlife cameras in the Great Western Tiers World Heritage Area at Western Creek. The cameras trigger automatically when an animal moves in front of them. Some animals are only active at night. The night time videos are monochrome because they are taken using infrared lighting so as to not disturb the animal.

The cameras were purchased with a grant from the 2A4 Small Grants Scheme.

Here are some of the videos taken so far in 2024 and 2025.

Dusky Antechinus (Antechinus swainsonii), native

 

Tasmanian scrubwren (Sericornis humilis), native

 

Long-tailed mouse (Pseudomys higginsi), native

 

 

Bassian thrush (Zoothera lunulata), native

 

Swamp rat (Rattus lutreolus), native

 

Ring-tailed possum (Pseudocheirus peregrinus), native

 

Spotted-tailed quoll (Dasyurus maculatus), native

 

 

Tasmania short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus setosus), native

 

Young Eastern Quolls (Dasyurus viverrinus) breeding under a house at the foot of the Great Western Tiers – two of them are the dark coloured morph

 

More Eastern Quoll activity: An adult carrying nesting material under the house and an adult catching and eating moths that are attracted to the house windows

 

 

The Mt Roland Landcare group’s Life on the Mountain project can be accessed here. That project has been ongoing for some time and there is a wealth of videos and montages of animals and birds on Mt Roland. Below is a compilation taken by Kristen Lang on Mt Roland showing a Southern Brown Bandicoot, followed by a Long Nosed Potoroo followed by a White Footed Dunnart. The three shared the same pathway at different times.