More Sydney Waterfalls – Moores Creek, Oxford Falls and Frenchs Creek – 31 March 2022

Posted on April 5, 2022 by Dave Noble

Wet weather was again forecast, so Bob and myself decided to do another local waterfall trip. This time we first visited  a series of waterfalls in Moores Creek at Roseville. Then we headed to Oxford Falls, but a storm hit before we could get out of the car so we drove to a sports run at Belrose to have lunch in a dry area. Before returning to Oxford Falls we checked out Oxford Cascades. Then to Oxford Falls and we finished looking gat some waterfalls in French Creek at Belrose.

Oxford Falls

Moores Creek – The Little Digger Track

We walked down Moores Creek at Roseville, along the Little Digger Track. Along the way we viewed a nice series of waterfalls. Continue reading →

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Sydney Olympic Park – Birds and Fungi – 30 March 2022

Posted on April 5, 2022 by Dave Noble

This was an afternoon trip to Sydney Olympic Park. I first went to Woo-la-ra to photograph the stinkhorns again that I had seen on my previous visit.

These stinkhorns are Pseudocolus fuciformis. Here are some more photos – Continue reading →

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Hawthorne Canal Birds – 29 March 2022

Posted on April 4, 2022 by Dave Noble

The Hawthorne Canal has been an interesting place to photograph birds recently. On my previous visit, I had photographed a Sacred Kingfisher. I saw it again this time, and I also saw a Brown Goshawk.

This was an afternoon visit after some rain earlier in the day. Continue reading →

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Back to Long Reef – 28 March 2022

Posted on April 4, 2022 by Dave Noble

The week before I had been to Long Reef and had a very good day photographing the birds. I was keen not go again, and this time was joined by Valerie and Sue. This time we had low tide around 1 pm so that allowed us to get a late start and arrive around 10:30 am, have a look around and then walk out onto the rock platform.

As well as some other bird photographers, the headland was a busy place with two school groups on excursion. The students, despite their number, did not disturb either the migratory birds, the resident birds or visitors like the Common Noddy I had seen on the earlier visit. Continue reading →

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Birds and Fungi at Oatley Park – 27 March 2022

Posted on April 1, 2022 by Dave Noble

I had been to Oatley Park recently, and it was fairy soon for a repeat visit, but there was trackwork on many of the railway lines to other places, so that limited my options somewhat. So it was a bus to Sydenham and then a train to Oatley and then the walk to the park. The weather forecast was also not the best, but during the major period of rain, I stopped for lunch in one of the picnic shelters.

I entered via the lower entrance and then walked around the headland track. Here are some photos – Continue reading →

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Fungi at Bola Creek – 26 March 2022

Posted on April 1, 2022 by Dave Noble

I was on a field activity of The Sydney Fungal Studies Group at Bola Creek in Royal National Park. The weather in the run-up had been very wet and there was some discussion about whether we wold be able to go ahead. Already it had been postponed from the previous Saturday. We did decide to go ahead, and it was very worthwhile.

Clavulinopsis fusiformis

The ground was very sodden from the rain, and Bola Creek was very high – making a crossing on the Wollumurra Track impossible. But there was still plenty of ground to explore for fungi. A lot of what we found was under logs or close to the base of trees – more protected area that were not waterlogged. Continue reading →

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A Quick Visit to Sydney Olympic Park – 25 March 2022

Posted on March 29, 2022 by Dave Noble

I decided in the afternoon to make a visit to Sydney Olympic Park to look for some interesting fungi that others had seen there. I had a rough idea of the location, and it look worth taking a bike and riding there from North Strathfield Station. This would allow me to check out Mason Park Wetlands and The Waterbird Refuge at Bicentennial Park first.

Pseudocolus fuciformis

I did not see too may birds at Mason Park wetlands, so I continued on to the Waterbird Refuge. Here was a Great Egret – Continue reading →

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Heritage Walk – 24 March 2022

Posted on March 29, 2022 by Dave Noble

The weather forecast was not the best. It seemed like it would not be worthwhile heading up the Blue Mountains for our usual Thursday walk, so Bob and myself decided to stay closer to Sydney and do some shorter walks concentrating on searching for some Aboriginal heritage sites.

Our first stop was to check out a small cave I had heard about recently that was supposed to have some Aboriginal hand stencils. Continue reading →

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Birds at Barton Park and Sydney Park – 23 March 2022

Posted on March 29, 2022 by Dave Noble

I visited two places during the day – first going to Barton Park, then catching a bus up the road to finish at Sydney Park.

It turned out to be a relatively quiet day. Continue reading →

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Birdwood Gully – Fungi, Orchids and Birds – 22 March 2022

Posted on March 26, 2022 by Dave Noble

The trains to the Blue Mountains were running again – at least to Springwood. So I decided that a trip up to look for fungi would be in order. However the normal mountains express trains were not running from the city, but from Penrith, so I had to catch slower trains to Penrith then catch the V set at Penrith for Springwood. And, the 4 minutes waiting time at Penrith changed to 30 minutes as the suburban train was a little late. So it turned out to be slow trip. But it was nice to be in the mountain’s bush again.

The fungi was not very abundant given the recent very good rainfall. I think rainforest areas have become a bit leached and the fungi is not as plentiful as that in parks and road verges. Continue reading →

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