This was another interesting day looking for fungi at Ferndale Park at Chatswood and then continuing down Swaines Creek to the Lane Cove River and some more photography of Ospreys. It was really the repeat of a trip I had done on 27 June. But this time conditions were different. When I started looking for fungi at Ferndale Park the weather was OK, but it became gloomier and then here was a major storm. Heavy rain fell for about 30 minutes – so much fell that the creek went up and I could not get across it. I needed to cross to eventually walk down to the river. I ended up walking out another track, then along some roads, then down a track that led to the far side.
Anyway, sone nice fungi was out. This included some nice waxcaps and some very fresh Cortinarius. I’ll start with the waxcaps –
After the rain had stopped, I met Peter Woodard at the park and we compared what we had both found. There did not seem to be any of the Ferndale Park green-pink waxcap out.
And now some Cortinarius –
Some of the Corals –
And some of the other fungi –
More photos of the fungi together with identifications are online here on my website.
I then continued down Swaines Creek. At the Lane Cove River, the golf course was flooded in parts. The birds enjoyed the new pools –
Further downstream, at the Osprey nest, the birds were both around.
The light was a bit gloomy for good photography though.
One of them did not seem satisfied with some bark used for the nest. It flew off with it, circled around and landed back on top of the nest with it.
The female, was calling out for the male. The male approached and it looked like the birds were mating.
Hopefully there will be some eggs soon.