Happy Wombat Hazelnuts

Happy Wombat Hazelnuts Here at Happy Wombat Hazelnuts we grow and sell amongst other things....hazelnuts!

16/06/2026

Pruning day and the Lyrebird wasn't far away. Volume up.

Clear dark night with plenty of stars visible. The Milky Way is bright and it's a good night to see 'Emu in the Sky'. Wi...
14/06/2026

Clear dark night with plenty of stars visible. The Milky Way is bright and it's a good night to see 'Emu in the Sky'. Winter time the emu is upright culturally representing the male sitting on eggs.




Hazelnut pruning time is well underway. While waiting for the frosty ground and trees to dry out a bit, its bike run tim...
09/06/2026

Hazelnut pruning time is well underway. While waiting for the frosty ground and trees to dry out a bit, its bike run time for Bess and a chance to photograph some winter birds.




Batch 2 showing the different moth species recorded on our farm as part of the Bogong Watch Citizen Science project. Al...
07/06/2026

Batch 2 showing the different moth species recorded on our farm as part of the Bogong Watch Citizen Science project. All were attracted into the bug lantern. Some quite large, others quite small.
Never knew how 'fluffy' moths were until we took more notice with this project.



For 3 months we have been officially involved in the Bogong watch project with the allocation of a bug lantern. There w...
07/06/2026

For 3 months we have been officially involved in the Bogong watch project with the allocation of a bug lantern. There were only 50 people selected from over 400 applicants so we felt very privileged to be selected as part of the citizen science project.

We have found this project to be so informative about local moth movements and diversity that we have extended our involvement in the project. We will continue to have our lantern on at night to see what we may attract in the coming winter months including anymore Bogong Moth activity. Who knows?

We will do a separate post on Bogong moths, but for now here is a selection from the 50+ different moth species that we have had recorded on the farm. There are 2 batches. Photos start with a Bogong Moth and then a whole lot of different species, hopefully with no duplicates.

Here's Batch 1 of 2 where so many moths look like a Bogong moth and of similar size.





For anyone interested in Greater Gliders, we have located a pair and been doing the odd video when we can over the last ...
03/06/2026

For anyone interested in Greater Gliders, we have located a pair and been doing the odd video when we can over the last few weeks.

Craig first spotted the eyes peering out of an unassuming tree hollow, but it was only when we went back for another look that we realised that there were two! It just goes to show you can't assume that a tree does not have anything living in it because of the way it looks on the outside. See the last photo for that!

Enjoy these brief videos of black morphs emerging from their tree hollow, doing a lot of scratching, even a p**p, feeding and gliding. It's hard to video at the best of times as an amateur but we've done our best with the thermal scope and trying to follow their movements when they do glide.





02/06/2026

Lyrebirds don't mind the wet and cold. Their mimicry is crisp and clear.

Anyone know what the bird is at the 15 sec mark or is it the lyrebird? Volume up

Still lots of different types of fungi around- colours, shapes and where it's growing out from. Not too shabby looking u...
31/05/2026

Still lots of different types of fungi around- colours, shapes and where it's growing out from.
Not too shabby looking up into the tree canopy either.




30 years ago when we planted local eucalypt tree species, little did we know they would become critical sites to instal ...
29/05/2026

30 years ago when we planted local eucalypt tree species, little did we know they would become critical sites to instal Greater Glider nest boxes.

The foliage growth shown in the photos is only from the last 6 years following the 2019/20 black summer bushfire. The trees took the brunt of the roaring flame intensity burning directly from the softwood pine forest across the road. So many old hollow bearing eucalyptus trees were lost including arboreal residents who could not escape to safety.

Through a Batlow focused Greater Glider monitoring and recovery program coordinated by Cherie White at , we now have additional nest boxes. This will help increase their accomodation options for safe breeding and survival.

On nest box installation day this week, Bess (as usual) turned up for the obligatory photo then left it to the experts, Mikayla and Liam.

Down the track we hope to bring you updates on nest box usage by Greater Gliders and other arboreal animals.




24/05/2026

Some cool mammatus cloud drifting slowly over the orchard today while pruning.




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