Night time on the Tablelands

Yesterday evening Darren the husband of a colleague of Tish came and picked me up for a night lamping on the Tablelands.
Our first stop was in the village of Yungaburra  at one of the Platypus viewing areas...

not the greatest of pictures but my first Duck-billed Platypus!!

From here we moved on to Cathedral Fig Tree our first patch of rainforest. It started off well with loads of fireflies in the car park area (no idea even how to attempt to photograph them) but as we walked through the main forest area we saw very little. The soundscape was completely different from my visits there during the day - the cicadas had been replaced by frogs. There were clearly several species calling but we only found one

This is one of the Microhylidae group of frogs - very small probably not much more than10-15mm in length. They are best identified by their call so I am not certain as to which this was but I think it is Common Nursery Frog - Cophixatus ornatus.

From here we then moved on to Curtain Fig Tree. This was much more like it, in addition to the chorus of frogs there were also many bat type sounds and a few bats seen buzzing around but they were far too fast to get any pictures of.
We did much better here for mammals, at least four Common Brushtail Possums seen and photographed

From here we moved on to our final site Mount Hypipamee - one of my favourite sites in the southern Tablelands. Having only visited during daylight hours was not sure what to expect - we did see Green Ringtail Possum but he was decidedly camera shy and on the way out I had brief views of a Lumholtzs Tree Kangaroo but that was it as far as mammals went.
On one of the bridges we found this beauty

a New Guinea or Green-eyed Tree Frog - Litoria genimaculata

Hoping across the main track were several Cane Toads (these invasive pests get everywhere) but we also found this one

Northern Barred Frog - Mixophyes schevilli

The star of the night though was this stunning gecko

Northern Leaf-tail Gecko - Phyllurus cornutus

We got back at just past midnight having had a very successful trip