I decided to make another visit to Birdwood Gully at Springwood to see how the fungi was going.
However I left out an important item of equipment – the camera and macro lens I use to take my fungi photos. I did have the camera and telephoto lens I use for birds photos and I had to make use of that for the fungi photos. This was less than ideal. I did not have plate to mount the camera on my tripod and then minimum focussing distance was around 1.6 metres. So most fungi photos were taken hand held at a high ISO and some taken wit the camera resting on a log or stone.
Here are the fungi photos –
Boletellus sp.
Clavulinopsis sulcata
Hygrocybe taekeri
I had also seen this rare waxcap on my previous visit but in a different location.
Hygrocybe miniata
Pseudohydnum gelatinosum
Ramaria ochracea
Hygrocybe sp. Perhaps Hygrocybe erethrocrenata –
Gomphus sp.
This had grown significantly since my previous visit.
Probably Clavaria sp.
These were growing in a different place to where I usually see them. Further upstream.
And some orchids –
Wasp Orchid – Chiloglottis seminuda
Cymbidium suave
This was growing on a tree near the Tom Hunter Track turnoff.
Now for some birds.
In the rainforest I had seen a parent Eastern Yellow Robin feeding a chick –
And here is a pair I saw downstream –
Grey Fantail
Rufous Fantail
Crimson Rosella
Red-browed Finches –
New Holland Honeyeater –
Eastern Spinebill –
Brown Thornbill –
Large-billed Scrubwren –
Golden Whistler –
White-throated Treecreeper –
Another very worthwhile trip enjoying Nature.