12 Oct 2018

Burrill Lake

Pelicans Pelecanus conspicillatus


Zebra Top Shell Austrocochlea porcata


Tapered Ark Shell Anadara trapezia


Also known as Sydney Cockle, Ark Cockle or Blood Cockle as they have red blood


Zebra Top Austrocochlea porcata


Sausage Blubber- the eggs of the Moon Snails Conuber sp. are suspended in this jelly


Tracks of a tiny Hermit Crab at home in a Mud Whelk shell Battillaria australis


Track of a Moon Snail Conuber sordidus


Silvereye Zosterops lateralis


Birds of the feeding areas:
Rainbow Lorikeet Trichoglossus molucannus
Chestnut Teal Anas castanea
Long Billed Corella Cacatua tenuirostris


A wet Rainbow


1 Oct 2018

AAWT - Day 3 - Booroomba Rocks to Honeysuckle Creek

Booroomba Rocks


Leionema Leionema lamprophyllum subs. obovatum



Lemon Bottlebrush Callistemon pallidus


Rayed Blue Candalides heathi


Alpine Star Bush- maybe -Asterolasia trymalioides


Grevillea Grevillea oxyantha subsp. oxyantha


More Booroomba Rocks




Tennent and Deadmans from Booroomba


Along the track to Honeysuckle Creek - The orange is Cherry Ballart Exocarpos cupressifomis and the yellow is Silver Wattle Acacia dealbata


Beard-heath Leucopogon sp.


Blanket Bush Bedfordia arborescens


Dagger Wattle Acacia siculiformis


Woolly Grevillea Grevillea lanigera


Coral Heath Epacris microphylla


Wedge-leaf Wattle Acacia pravissima


Honeysuckle Creek


16 Sept 2018

AAWT - Day 2 - Bushfold Flats to Booroomba Rocks

Dry open grassland at Bushfold Flats


Looking to our destination between Deadmans Hill (left) and Booroomba Rocks (centre)


Blackwood Acacia melanoxylon at Reads Hut


One of only two Cymbonotus flowers today


A very dead pig


The trap nearby


Wombat skull


Silver wattle Acacia dealbata. Not flowering as profusely as this time last year.


Ruins of Bushfold Flats hut


Very old Apple Box from the farm days Eucalyptus bridgesiana


Tiny, tiny flowers of Dwarf Cherry Exocarpos strictus


Caterpillar of Pasture Day Moth Apino callisto. The caterpillar burrows into the ground to pupate. Here is an adult moth that was prepared earlier.


One of only two Hovea heterophylla plants in flower seen today. It's been a dry year.


The beautiful wet mountain forest near Booroomba Rocks


17 Jul 2018

Booderee

Beach at Green Patch


Oysters


Rosette Barnacle Tetraclitella purpurascens


Comb Sand Star Astropecten vappa 


Red Bait Crab Plagusia chabrus


Sand Anemone Oulactis mucosa


Bristol Point


Dusky Coral Pea Kennedia rubicunda


Snakeskin Chiton Sypharochiton pelliserpentis


At Murrays Beach, looking across to Bowen Island. This place was once earmarked to become a nuclear power plant !? It never happened. May we never entertain it again.


Branches of Banksia growing right onto the sandy shore Banksia integrifolia 


Fan Shell


Blue Australwink (Periwinkles) Austrolittorina unifasciata