Lockyer Valley Couple Surprised by their Nocturnal Neighbours

Lockyer Community Action member Bob Brown said using OCA’s cameras had been an “eye-opening experience”.

“It’s also been an exercise in patience,” Bob said, explaining how he was tempted to check the equipment daily, if not several times a day.

Bob said the biggest surprise had been the variety of animals he found using the same narrow corridor at night.

“We had a lot of unknown activity happening on a very small patch of our land over a relatively short period of time,” Bob said.

Bob used two wildlife cameras supplied by Outdoor Cameras Australia – a Reconyx Hyperfire2 Professional and a Swift 3C, both with invisible infrared flash.

Bob said with most fauna only active after the sun goes down, the cameras had helped to identify both the native and introduced species living on their land.

Lockyer Community Action has been using wildlife cameras in their wildlife programs for over a year and now has eight cameras, thanks to funding received under the Lockyer Valley Regional Council’s Community Environment Grants program.

The cameras will be loaned to land owners for two weeks at a time for fauna surveys that will help identify species present in the Lockyer Valley.

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