Stony Creek Views

A stand of Scribbly Gums Eucalyptus rossii with Murrumbidgee River in view.

The Scribbly's with Mt McDonald behind

The next stand along the track are the Red Stringybarks Eucalyptus macrorhyncha

Clear delineation between Nature Reserve and farmland. Recovering Grass Trees Xanthorrhoea australis in the foreground.

Common Browns Heteronympha merope were everywhere today. This is a female.

This once enormous tree now just a thin strip of outer shell, still standing.

View to Mt Dowling and into NSW

Mt McDonald

Cough Bush Cassinia quinquefaria

Cassinia spp

Red Stringybark flower Eucalyptus macrorhyncha

Dead Cristmas Beetles signalling the end of summer Anoplognathus spp

Silver Wattle pod Acacia dealbata

Chalcopterus Beetle Chalcopteroides spp

The Scribbly Gums were so yellow today Eucalyptus rossii

Pretty Scribbly Gum/ Red Stringybark forest

Forster Hill

Donkey Orchid Diuris sulphurea

Narrow-leafed Pomaderris Pomaderris angustifolia

Wooly-head Pomaderris Pomaderris eriocephala

A parent tree surrounded by a circle of seeded offspring. What was once a lone paddock tree is now a stand due to being fenced off.  The trees are all Red Stringybark Eucalyptus macrorhyncha.

Its a family thing

The parent tree is burned but alive, surrounded by about 80 - 100 kids.

Bulbine lillies are everywhere Bulbine bulbosa

Views to Bullen Range and beyond from Forster Hill

A male Caper White butterfly Belenois java

Two Sticks Hill

Blackwood Acacia melanoxylon is in flower now

Last year's seeds and the flowers together

Red Stringybark buds and fruit Eucalyptus macrorhyncha 

Bear's Ears Cymbonotus spp

Hard to see, but the cleared area under the powerlines was a vast field of Early Nancys Wurmbea dioica

Site of the old Sherwood Homestead.  The homestead is long gone but the daffodils remain. In a sea of violets.

Closeups of some of the flowers. The daffodils are the variety Rip Van Winkle, first planted here at the homestead about 100 years ago.

 

View to Mt Dowling from the Sherwood grave site

Two Sticks Hill, its the one on the left

Rocky things on Two Sticks Hill.

Views from the Two Sticks Hill saddle into Brindabella National Park NSW