TATNELLPHOTOGRAPHY

Near Bungendore New South Wales, Ballyhooly is a 450 hectare property on the Great Dividing Range that I photographed over a 13 month period from September 2016 to October 2017. It has several high quality habitats for native plants and animals, such as native grasslands and brittle gum forests, which are gradually improving after the removal of sheep and cattle.

The rolling landscape has a range of interesting forest and woodland trees, flowering shrubs and herbs and a mix of introduced and native grasslands. Wombats are very common as are eastern grey kangaroos, and red necked wallabies.

Other interesting species are echidnas, shingle back lizards, brown snakes and an abundance of long-necked tortoises in the numerous dams and ponds. Bush birds such as white-throated gerygones, scarlet robins and buff-rumped thornbills are abundant in Spring and Summer.