Sue joined me for a pleasant day spent at Nurragingy Reserve at Doonside. The weather was cool at first, but later developed into a very pleasant day, and it was warm in the sun. The birds however were fairly quiet.
Here are some we saw – Continue reading
Long Reef has been a very good venue recently for photographing Ospreys and sometimes Sea Eagles.
I arrived on the lookout around 11 am and soon walked down to the lower level. The tide was low, but now starting to go up. With binoculars, I spotted an Osprey perched on a tree on the north side of the headland. I walked towards it, and spotted a second Osprey perched a bit closer – Continue reading
I attended another fungi field study with the Sydney Fungal Studies Group. This one was at Bola Creek in Royal National Park. We had a large enthusiastic group in attendance and it included some members of the Friends of Royal National Park.
Conditions were quite dry and not that much fungi was out, and a lot of what we found was not in good condition. But having a large group with a lot of people looking made it easier for some nice fungi to be spotted. Continue reading
I decided to visit Oatley Park and have a wander around to see what was out and about.
I first went to the Lime Kiln Bay Wetlands. There did not seem to be too many beds around. Continue reading
Both Bob and myself were keen to look at an Aboriginal art cave in the Wilton area on the Southern Highlands.
The cave seems to lie on crown land, near a creek, but was not easy to reach. The first way we tried to walk there involved a lot of unexpected scrub, so we chose a slightly longer route that was was a lot more open. When we reached the cave, the art was truly amazing.
The cave has been relatively well known to non-aboriginals for a long time. It was archeologically described in the early 1960’s, and photos taken then, compared to now, seem to show little deterioration in the art. But the author of that report also mentions vandalism (graffiti) done in the 1930’s. Continue reading
After two recent quite good visits to the headland, I was keen to go again and hopefully see more of the Peregrine Falcons. However, as often happens, this trip turned out to be relatively quiet, with only a distant view of an Osprey and a very fleeting fly past by a Peregrine Falcon.
Sue also came along. After we met at Maroubra Beach, we spotted a pair of Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos – Continue reading
After two good fungi trips, I decided to visit Sassafras Gully at Springwood. Hopefully there would still be some good fungi out, and It would be good to see it before it dried out too much. I walked in via the track at the end of Sassafras Gully Road and continued to the Lagoon and Glenbrook Creek. I later returned via the same track.
I was a bit disappointed with what I ended up finding. In particular I did find any examples of certain waxcaps I had been hoping to see.
Hygrocybe sp.
I spent the day in Chatswood visiting two reserves, looking for and photographing fungi. The conditions were reasonable although starting to dry out.
Here is some of the fungi I found – Continue reading
I attended a field study with the Sydney Fungal Studies Group to Coachwood Glen near Blackheath. We found a good amount of fungi, although a lot of what was there was a bit old.
Here is a selection of what was found – Continue reading
Bob and myself had a very interesting walk on the ridge north of Mt Irvine visiting three Aboriginal sites. Two were caves with ochre art, and the third was a well known site on the Tessellated Pavement.
The first site we visited was a small overhang. It did not seem a very good cave to look for art in, but it surprisingly was quite reasonable. Continue reading
