Sherwood 2020

 Golden Moths Diuris chryseopsis

Sundew with insect meal Drosera sp.

Blackwood Acacia melanoxylon

Heliotrope Moth Utetheisa pulchelloides

Golden Grass Carpet Moth Anachloris subochraria

Marshall's Break

Prickly Teatree Leptospermum continentale

Some younger and some older fruit

Brittle Gum Eucalyptus mannifera

Brittle Gums with bright green Cherry Ballarts Exocarpos cupressiformis

Cherry Ballart bark with a White-spotted Jumping Spider and it's prey Sandalodes scopifer

Prickly Broom-heath Monotoca scoparia starting to flower

Common Prettymouth Calostoma fuscum

Views

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

Warks Road

Bursaria spinosa.  The little brown capsules which are so distinctive later in the year are new and green now.

Star Cudweed Euchiton spp

Cauliflower Bush Cassinia spp

There were many new Red-leaf Wattles Acacia rubida, showing the immature compound leaves and the mature large leaf, red stems and leaf edges.

Dodder or Devils Twine Cassytha pubescens

Fishbone Fern Blechum nudum 

Mt Blundell (distant), and Uriarra Hill

Condor Hut, victim of the 2003 fires.

Padovans Crossing

A white Early Nancy Wurmbea dioica. The usual purple band is not there, but there is a very faint almost tan coloured band.

My first Candles for spring Stackhousia monogyna

and first Sundews Drosera spp

Wedge-leaf Wattle Acacia pravissima

Black Wattle Acacia decurrens

Austral Indigo Indigophera australis starting to flower

Also first Echidna for spring

The view usually reserved for too-close photographers

View north to Two Sticks Hill - the twin peak in the middle

Views to the Tidbinbilla mountains

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