Mt Mugga Mugga

Mt Mugga Mugga

Scribbly Gums Eucalyptus rossii

Near the summit

Golden Wattle- Australia's floral emblem- Acacia pycnantha

It smells good too

Drooping She-oak Allocasuarina verticillata

Blakely's Red Gum Eucalyptus blakelyi

Views east down to Callum Brae

An Echidna was here Tachyglossus aculeatus at a Meat Ant's nest Iridomyrmex purpureus

Spot the Crimson Rosella Platycercus elegans

Casuarina Sands

Correa reflexa in flower along the track to Bulgar Creek.  Some plants with red and yellow flowers, some light green.

Occurrence of fasciation in a stem of  Bursaria spinosa.  this is the first example I've seen in Bursaria, having previously seen fasciation only in soft weeds like Plantain Plantago lanceolata.

Plenty of dead River Oaks Casuarina cunninghamiana from the 2003 fires, still a striking sight along the river.

View south along Murrumbidgee River, cleared grazing land on left and Bullen Range on the right.

Mt Ainslie Trees

Dominant species on Mt Ainslie are Scribbly Gums Eucalyptus rossii (white trunks) and Drooping She-oak Allocasuarina verticillata (narrower black fissured trunks)

Drooping She-oak with a bad but lucky shot of a Golden Whistler Pachycephala pectoralis - taken on a pocket snapshot camera

View of Canberra from Mt Ainslie. Smoke at centre right is from a burn off on Oakey Hill

Drooping She-oak

Lots of flowering Drooping She-oak Allocasuarina verticillata on Mt Stromlo.  The female tree has small red flowers.

The female tree with new and older cones together.  Seeds are the main food of Glossy Black Cockatoos Calyptorhynchus lathami.

The male tree has golden flowers on small branches

The entire male tree has a rusty appearance when in flower. Looking west from Mt Stromlo to Brindabellas- Mt Coree on the right.