AAWT - Day 11-12 -Murrays Gap to Pockets Hut

At Murrays Gap- Triggerplants Styliduim sp.  As they are growing in bog at high altitude, they could be Alpine Triggerplant Stylidium montana, but I did not investigate the leaves.

Fairy Aprons Utrichularia dichotoma

Swamp Eyebright Euphrasia caudata

Sweet Onion Orchid  Microtis oblonga.  The labellum is very long, against the ovary, and flowers well spaced.

Heading down from the gap, Blanket Bush Bedfordia arborescens is emerging from burnt areas

Swathes of white Stellaria under black trunks looks like snow

Damp gullies of  red snow grass Poa sp

Flax and close up of the red Poa

Scrofa Hawkmoth Hippotion scrofa

Looking back to Bimberi

Yam Daisy

Oldfields Hut

My Accom

A lone cherry at Oldfields (plenty of cherry slugs though)

Christmas dinner

Copper Wire Daisy Podolepis sp.

Sticky Everlasting Ozothamnus thyrsoideus

pea

Heading along the edge of the plain

Pockets Hut and views from the plains

 

Views over Tantangara Dam in the evening

Cicadas!

Redeye Cicadas Psaltoda moerens- in profusion on 8th Dec2020.

On Cork Oaks and various other trees at the Lindsay Pryor Arboretum.

This one has recently emerged- still drying its wings

Holes where the pupae emerged from the ground.

A Common Onion Orchid Microtis unifolia- labellum is crinkly.

Growing from mulch placed around new trees.

 

A Few Nice Moths

Red-lined Geometrid Crypsiphona ocultaria

Light Brown Apple Moths mating Epiphyas postvittana

Red-lined Geometrid showing red-lined underside

Bold Phrataria Phrataria bijugata

Reeds Creek

 Old Cherry Trees at Oldfields Hut

Anchor Plant Discaria pubescens

Bitter Pea Daviesia mimosoides

Shaggy-pea Oxylobium ellipticum

Mountain Caps Caladenia alpina

Highland Golden Moths -Flowering 21st Nov20- Diuris monticola

Common Bird Orchid opening Chiloglottis valida

Black Mountain 2020

Black Mountain 14/11/20

Fringe Lilies, large and numerous this year Thysanotus tuberosus

Woolly Pointed Everlasting Coronidium oxylepis

Lydia Lichen Moth Asura lydia

The signs are old but good

Chocolate Lily Arthropodium fimbriatum

Yellow Rush Lily Tricoryne elatior

Tall Lobelia Lobelia gibbosa

Prickly Starwort Stellaria pungens

Australian Admiral Vanessa itea

Black Mountain Tower

The Gib

 The Stone Stairs 

Wallaby Weed - a daisy bush Olearia viscidula

Nodding Blue Lily Stypandra glauca

Spiny-headed Mat Rush Lomandra longifolia

Scrambling Lily Geitonoplesium cymosum

Tiger Orchids were plentiful Diuris sulphurea (late October)

Showy Isotome Isotoma axillaris

Old Mans Beard Clematis aristata

Headache Vine Clematis glycinoides

Apple Berry Billardiera scandens

Two Bag Shelter Moths, showing two pattern variations Ochrogaster lunifer

The 1930's "shelter sheds"

On the top

Trig with complimentary ladder

Mt Gibraltar is a volcanic intrusion about 150 million years old, set in wet sclerophyl forest. Known locally as "The Gib".