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Well I suppose it was inevitable. The night after a perfectly clear night we get a cloudy beginning to the Full Lunar Eclipse. After a few hours of watching the moon through light cloud, the clouds dispersed and the totality was viewed in a completely clear sky (Took some shots with the SLR and will post them if they turn out). It was good viewing with a mild night and a few flying foxes screeching in the flowering swamp mahoganies, adding to the effect as we sat chatting in the back yard watching just another astronomical phenomena.

Today's wildlife brushes included a scrub turkey scuttling across the road near the top of Cudgera Creek Road on the way home from a ride and a family of yellow tailed black cockatoos, 12 in all, coming in to roost just across the road in a tree sticking above the canopy before sunset. Quite a noisy affair, the dominant bird seemed to be calling the other members in to roost and these were answering before they flew in.