Wildlife Sanctuary

Bunyak Creek Farm is home to a wide variety of native fauna, supported by several different flora and fauna zones around the property. In addition, the extensive homestead gardens provide a rich feeding zone that attracts a lot of fauna from further afield and is a stopping-off spot for lots of annual migratory species

Resident Marsupials

• Bennet’s Wallabies

• Echidnas

• Brush-tailed Possums

• Ringtail Possums

• Eastern Bandicoots

• Yellow-Bellied Gliders

• Sugar Gliders

• Koalas

Regular Visitors

• Eastern Grey Kangaroos

Occasional Visitors

• Platypus

• Dingos

Larger Resident Reptiles

• Tortoises

• Water Dragons

• Lace Monitors

• Bearded Dragons

• Red-bellied Black Snakes

• Brown Snakes

• Diamond Pythons

• Blue Tongue Lizards

• Shingle Back Lizards

Birdlife

Birdlife at the farm is abundant and diverse and changes with the seasons as many migratory birds arrive or pass-through

The following table is a list of casual sightings recorded over our first twelve months at the farm. (with the exclusion of Winter when the COVID lockdown in Sydney kept us absent from the farm)

By casual, I mean we haven’t had the time to go twitching extensively but have made these sightings while sitting on the verandah, or doing various chores around the farm. I’m sure the list will grow closer to a couple of hundred species over time as we settle into the farm and regenerate some of the forest and flight ways.

Having lots of water sources, unmowed grassland, remnant tree patches, planted native gardens and being adjacent to a small patch of remnant rainforest, significantly adds to the diversity. The relative lack of feral cats and small numbers of foxes in the area also helps.

This is the list so far

Scarlet Honeyeater, Brown-Headed Honeyeater, Lewin’s Honeyeater, Crested Pigeon, Peaceful Dove, Bar Shouldered Dove, King Parrot, Eastern Rosella, Crimson Rosella, Red Rumped Parrot, Scaly Breasted Lorikeet, Rainbow Lorikeet, Galah, Cockatoos, Noisy friarbird, Yellow-Tailed Black Cockatoo, Pipit, Willie Wagtail, Satin Flycatcher, Australian Magpie, Magpie Lark, Laughing Kookaburra, Various Crows, Brown Cuckoo Dove, Satin Bowerbird, Reb Browed Finch, Superb Fairy Wren, Variegated Fairy Wren, Eastern Yellow Robin, Turquoise Parrot, White-Winged Chough, Masked Lapwing, Banded Lapwing, Brown Quail, Wedge Tailed Eagle, Welcome Swallows, Eastern Spinebill, Channel Billed Cuckoo, Eastern Koel, Fuscous Honeyeater, Yellow Faced Honeyeater, Southern Whiteface, Black Faced Cuckoo Shrike, Drongo, Noisy Miner, Yellow-Rumped Thornbill, White Eared Honeyeater, Tawny Crowned Honeyeater, Pied Butcher Bird, Sacred Kingfisher, White Headed Pigeon, Tree Martin, Grey Fantail, Brown Gerygone, Grey Shrike-Thrush, White Bellied Cuckoo Shrike, Little Friarbird, Pheasant Coucal, Wonga Pigeon, Azure Kingfisher, Southern Emu Wren, Top Knot Pigeon, Australian Hobby, Pacific Black Duck, Little Pied Cormorant, White-Fronted Honeyeater, Jacky Winter, Fairy Martin, White Faced Heron, Peregrine Falcon, Whistling Kite, Crescent Honeyeater, New Holland Honeyeater, Collared Sparrowhawk, Silvereye, Regent Bowerbird, Australasian Figbird, Black Shouldered Kite, Eastern Barn Owl, White Plumed Honeyeater, WhiteNaped Honeyeater, Nankeen Kestrel, White Browed Scrubwren, Australian Wood Duck, Red-Backed Fairy-wren, Varied Triller,