rangerpuffin's Identifications

We have koalas moving through periodically. This grunty boy came through earlier this year and sought out a young female who was already here. He approached via another tree, but she hit him, very hard, when he got close. So they sat in the tree separated ignoring each other.

I think this is the same one from a few days ago. I'm pretty sure it's a she. She was fiddling around her belly, not sure if scratching or if she has a joey. Will keep observing if she stays. She got bored with the woman with the camera quite quickly and went to sleep.

This is the same male who has been around for a couple of weeks now. He let me get very close this morning, quite unperturbed about me. He is in a Buddleia bush because my dog noticed him on the ground and he thought better of being on the ground.

I'm pretty sure this is a female, having had a bit of a look at her chest with binoculars. I couldn't get a photo showing that. She is about 5m away in the next tree to the male in https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/106901663.

This is a grunting male. I think it is the one from observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/106159424 on 5th February 2022. He's trying to get the full attention of a female about 5m away in the next tree. Separate observation.

This is the same koala I reported yesterday at this location. Now very certain it is male. Today you can see the scent patch on his chest, he's been grunting during the night and today and one of the photos shows even more.

Probably one of our "residents". I think this is a female, although I can't see the chest properly. I have heard a male a few times in the past week. This one came to my attention when it urinated down the trunk of a gumtree I was working under. Then it climbed across to the adjoining blackwood wattle and seems to have settled in for a sleep.

Presumably one of our regulars. Climbed over the front gate, raced up the peppermint gum by the gate. Presumably heading for the redgums and bluegums in the backyard where the koalas usually sleep at irregular intervals. The ravens who spend their days in the peppermint gum were not impressed and bombed it.

I can't see if this one is one of the females or a male. It got bored with me and went back to sleep. It's not very worried about us or the dogs in the backyard, second fork up on the righthand side of the tree. Sometimes when they come here they climb up right into the tops of the bluegums.

Apologies for the poor photos. This was in the predawn light and I've adjusted the brightness and contrast. He (the one on the left) was grunting, she was wailing. We think there was a mating. And out towards the end of the branch both of them almost fell to the ground. Lucky they have strong arms and claws.

This is a male (brown chest stripe no visible in photos). He has been moving around a bit this morning. He's in a Kurrajong tree in the main photo. The others show him moving over to a blackwood and then studiously ignoring a large raven. The ravens are nesting just over the road and three of them and a magpie tried to make the koala move. To no avail.