Habitat

Only one plastic bottle in the pit drain this time.

Very scummy below the dam wall.

Logs blocking two tunnels.

Patches of foam and oil on the surface upstream from the dam wall.

Lots of rubbish waiting to be washed down the creek at the next heavy downpour.

Weed trees growing in the waterway.

Skipper Butterflies, Common Browns and Cabbage Whites in flight.

On a rock near the small, planted wetland there is a plaque commemorating 10 years of work by the Friends of the Karingal Yalloc.

BIRDS:    Rainbow Lorikeets    Mudlarks    Pacific Black Ducks    Wood Ducks    Magpies                  Noisy Miners --- and a White-faced Heron, later.    

Water Bugs Agreed Level Taxonomy Method

Image	Species	Score	Quantity
	c. Family Veliidae/ Family Mesoveliidae/ Family Hebridae (water treaders)	3	25
	c. Phylum Annelida, class Hirudinea, (leeches)	1	2
	d. Phylum Annelida, class Oligochaeta, (worms)	1	15
	e. Family Chironomidae, several genera (blood worms)	1	15
	e. Family Lestidae and Family Coenagrionidae (Damselfly nymph)	2	7
	e. Phylum Turbellaria ( flatworms)	1	15
	f. Corduliid / libellulid like dragonflies - various families (spider mud eye)	5	6
	f. Order Araneae ( fishing and wolf spiders)	5	1
	g. Family Chironomidae (chironomids - True Fly larvae)	3	2
	g. Family Physidae, Species Physa acuta (snail)	1	1
	h. Family Notonectidae , Genus Enithares (robust backswimmers)	1	2
	i. Family Aeshnidae (Dragonfly nymph - Couta mud eye)	5	2
	i. Family Stratiomyidae (soldier fly larvae)	2	2
	l. Family Culicidae (mosquito larvae, wrigglers)	1	6
ALT Signal Score		2.50
Weighted ALT Signal Score		2.18