More Chatswood Fungi – 10 July 2016

I went back to Chatswood to have a better look at two areas that had visited not long before – Bluegum Reserve and Ferndale Park. On the earlier trip I had done a longer loop walk down from Chatswood, down Blue Gum Creek to the Lane Cove River and then back up Swaines Creek, through Ferndale Park back to Chatswood. On this trip, I hope to check out both the creeks again and then walk up the Lane Cove River to Macquarie Park. But I found enough fungi out in the creeks that that was where I spent my time.

I started out in Blue Gum Reserve. I entered from Dulwich Road and walked along the track to the scout hall, without finding too much out. Then I continued downstream.

Blue Gum Creek

I followed an old track on the true right. It is rough going – and you do need to climb over boulders and logs in places.

On the previous trip I had followed the track and then at one point descended to the creek level. There was a lot of fungi out in that place, and from there I had continued downstream. This trip I intend to check to creek level in the upstream direction.  This tuned to to be good – I found lots of nice waxcaps out –

There was also a good variety of other fungi out –

I then returned to the scout hall, and walked the short distance to Ferndale Park. I walked down he track to the creek junction and then started exploring the other branch, then downstream, then back up slowly.

I did find a lot of nice fungi out and took quite a few photos. Here are some of the waxcaps –

And some of the other fungi –

On my way back to Chatswood Station, I walked through the Kenneth Slessor Reserve and was lucky to spot some birds nest fungi. This interesting fungi was growing amongst the wood chips next to the path.

More photos together with identification are on my website – Blue Gum Reserve and Ferndale Park.