Flooding

Due to the drought they have reduced stock holdings to near nil on one and to minimal holdings on the other. Now the 30000 kangaroos will have all the feed to themselves except for what the 1500 feral goats eat.

Still better position than this time last year when even the dams were running out. Now they have water and they will get feed but it may well be 2 years before they have any income to speak of.

Kevin J

Thats if the pigs leave any for them by what you have reported here it will be a good hunting hogs season next year bring it on i better get the dogs beefed up the pigs r tougher up noth.Thanks for the info i will now be keeping an eye on the weather up the
cheers rusty

Good report Kev, thanks.

G

It is handy being there when it happens ;))

My old man got caught Friday night in the rain around Dalby, there was 3" of water over the road so he pulled over to let the rain ease. He said that other cars just kept going, they probably only had a few kms to do, he had 300km to go LOL

He also got drenched in Charleville on Monday night. So I don't know if it was me or him that the rain was following. I had rain from Sydney all the way through to Banana, but none on the trip back.

Cheers Kev

I agree,

Emu's have an uncanny way of predicting good seasons.
Another animal of note was the number of Ecidnas that were about. I reckon that I saw close to a dozen both dead and alive in SW QLD. Just don't run them over you get flat tyres LOL

Kev

so you ran over one Kev??? Or have you learnt from before!!!!

Not personal experience, but Mum's LOL

She thought it was a dead carcass on the road till it moved at the last minute and she hit it and did a back tyre due to the spines ha ha
She was driving Dad's work car (Holden Adventurer) at the time so it didn't cost them for the tyre.

Kev

Have spent the past two months in the Charleville area and we have been watching the buildup of emu chicks. Most have only 4/6 chicks but they do form creches where one female will watch over two or more broods. The other two indicators of possible 'wet' conditions were the numbers of water hens which appeared from absolutely no where after some rain in August. Nothing to see 100 or so at every waterhole. Also the ants were very active and shifting their nests to the top of posts where they had not been in June/July because the fence had not been there.

The following are extracts from the Bureau of Meteorology – Flood Warnings today
Warrego River.

At 8.30am the Warrego River at Charleville was 4.22 metres and rising causing minor flooding. This level is near the level of the old bridge at Charleville.
Further rises are expected at Charleville during this morning with a peak near 4.6 metres expected during the next few hours causing only minor flooding.

Minor to moderate flooding continues in the Langlo and Ward Rivers. At 8.30am the Ward River at Binnowee was 4.91 metres

The level at Cunnamulla Bridge is likely to reach the moderate flood level of 7.0 metres during next week with higher levels possible depending on further rainfall.


Paroo River

Downstream at Eulo the level at 6am was 3.55 metres and rising with moderate flooding. This level is about 0.55 metres above the approaches to the Paroo River Bridge at Eulo.

Flood levels at Eulo are expected to continue to rise with major flooding expected to develop during today and extend into the weekend.

Moderate to major flooding will extend downstream to Hungerford early next week.

The highest rainfall totals for the last 5 days include Humeburn 122mm, Quilpeta 181mm, Cowley Station 85mm and Eulo 135mm.

I believe there will be a decent flow down the system and with the forcast of more rain to come

Kevin J

Wondered about the emu numbers I saw last week, thanks for the insight.
And saw as many ecidnas in 7 days as I usually see in 12mths.