Excursion to Chauncy Vale, 3 Mar 2007
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This half-grown Bennets Wallaby holding a Silver Wattle shrub stopped chewing to watch us go by. GF |
We sighted several of these distinctive little moths. KB |
Dung beetle about to bury three pellets of wallaby dung. GF |
A very delicate looking Coprinus aff. plicatilis, 20mm across. GF |
Bisporella citrina growing on a log; 3 to 5mm high. GF |
Early stage of Fuligo septica slime mould growing from a crack in a log. Granules about 1mm. GF |
This 80mm mushroom could be a Limacella sp. GF |
Laccaria sp., about 30mm diameter. GF |
A wolf spider waiting very patiently. GF |
A White's Skink, Egernia whitii, emerging from its burrow. GF |
Mountain Dragon lizard. QMK |
A fresh-water leech from Guvy's Lagoon, attached by its sucker at the left. It can also swim freely. The small fresh-water snail is Gyraulus meridionalis. GF |
Mite. KB |
A micro-garden. QMK |
Eriochilus cucullatus orchid. KB |
A spikey young Coprosma. QMK |
At Eve's Bath where Browns Caves Creek has cut a smooth channel in the bedrock. GF |
Photos by Kevin Bonham, Geoff Fenton, Qug McKendrick King |