Bob and myself decided to do a walk around the Porters Pass – Colliers Causeway circuit at Blackheath. We had a cool day and it was mainly overcast. After the walk, we finished fairly early so we visited two historic Blue Mountains horse troughs.
Bob parked near the end of Burton Street, and we then walked down the track to Porters Pass. on the way, we visited Lamberts Lookout. Here we saw this Swamp Wallaby – Continue reading
Sue and myself decided to visit Malabar Headland to see how the Peregrine Falcons were going, and also to look for whales.
We met at Maroubra Beach at 9:30 and then slowly walked out into the National Park. Early on we spotted a hovering raptor. It was a Black-shouldered Kite. Continue reading
I made a short afternoon trip to see how the fungi was going at Wolli Creek Regional Park. I only checked a few areas, and was disappointed to see not very much interesting fungi out.
Gloioxanthomyces chromolimoneus
Gliophorus graminicolor Continue reading
I joined in on the monthly survey of birds along the Hawthorne Canal section of The Greenway.
As usual we started at Taverners Hill Light Rail Station. Continue reading
After the Mudlarks Bird Survey, I headed home and swapped cameras and lenses and headed to the Lane Cove River to check on the status of the Parrot Waxcaps again. After that, if there was time. I planned to pop into Ferndale Park.
I only found one of the Gliophorus psittacinus group waxcaps that was relatively large and in good condition this visit.
Nearby was this small one – Continue reading
I was up early, and walked down to the Cooks River to join the Mudlarks for their monthly bird survey. This month, the survey was the upstream loop, starting from the Lang Street Bridge.
Before setting out, we saw a Striated Heron fly in and land just upstream of the bridge. Continue reading
I once again joined Brian Everingham and other walkers from the National Parks Association of NSW for a very pleasant walk from Wattamolla along the Royal Coast Track to Little Marley and back the same way. This is one of my favourite sections of the coast in Royal National Park.
In the party was Brian, Elaine, Anne, Helga, Sue, Judy, Derek and myself.
While meeting at the carpark, I photographed this Superb Fairy-wren – Continue reading
I travelled up to the the Blue Mountains again for a trip down Sassafras Gully at Springwood to see how the fungi was going. Everything was quite wet at Coachwood Glen the day before, but Springwood had experienced less rainfall, so perhaps the fungi would be reasonable? I did find a fair bit – but the fungi was not nearly as abundant or interesting as that which I found on my previous recent visits.
On this trip, I entered via the Sassafras Gully Road track, went as far as the Glenbrook Creek junction, then went out via the Wiggins Track.
Here is some of the fungi I found – Continue reading
I joined the Sydney Fungal Studies Group for their fungal field study at Coachwood Glen on the Megalong Road near Blackheath. It had been about two years since my previous visit to the Glen, and I was a bit chocked by the changes over that period. There has been a lot of flood damage near the creek, and the track seems to have changed a bit too. In the lead up to this field study, there had been a fair bit of rain – and a lot of the ground was waterlogged. Too wet for fungi, and what fungi we found was a often a bit water damaged. But, we still found an interesting variety of fungi.
Here is a selection –
Gloioxanthomyces chromolimoneus
Slime mould Continue reading
I joined Sue for a day at Taronga Zoo. It had been a while since our last visit, and the new Reptile and Amphibian House was now finally open. We had a great day.
There were also some new baby animals to see.
We travelled to the Zoo by ferry and arrived a little after it opened at 9:30 am. We walked down towards the new Reptile and Amphibian House via the Australian animals – Continue reading
