It was pleasant to join Digi Dave for a day of photography in Royal National Park. We started off at Bola Creek looking to see what fungi was out, and were prepared to spend the day there if the fungi was good. But we found little, and what we did find was dry and poor quality. So we left before lunch and then spent the rest fo the day at Audley photographing birds.
Here is some of the fungi that we found at Bola Creek –
Hygrocybe aurantiopallens
Porpolomopsis lewelliniae
Hygrocybe miniata
Hygrocybe sp.
These orange waxcaps were the freshest we spotted. It was interesting to see them growing in the same spot that I have seen them several times much earlier in the fungi season.
Hygrocybe sp.
At Audley, we looked at a few areas. We first went downstream of the causeway, where we had lunch.
Laughing Kookaburras
We then headed upstream and walked up from the highest carpark. We briefly saw an Azure Kingfisher, but it was too fast for photos. Here is an Eastern Yellow Robin –
Here is a Great Cormorant –
And one of the many Sulphur-crested Cockatoos –
We then crossed over to the other side of the Hacking River and walked up though a large river flat. There were quite a few Superb Fairy-wrens –
The ground was quite wet in places, and that may have brought some worms to the surface. The local Laughing Kookaburras certainly enjoyed them –
