Outing Report - "Bindarrabi" Camp, Koreelah NSW, 20-22 April 2018

It was an enthusiastic band of campers and day-trippers who met at a favourite spot for our annual April camp. Showers a couple of days prior brought out a variety of fungi, brightened the mossy rocks to a brilliant green, and adorned the lacy grey-green lichen covering the tree trunks with tiny drops of moisture. The banks beside the track down to the creek pools were lush with maidenhair ferns and large arching branches of the soft bracken Calochlaena dubia. Tiny terrestrial orchids were observed and photographed. 

 One of the walks was to the top of Koreelah Gorge with its picturesque scenery and nearby heath vegetation.

Koreelah Creek way below

Looking west

At the top of the gorge

Another walk was along the Grey Gum Track. The flora members were kept busy identifying the trees, understory and wildflowers.  Colonies of the lovely mauve flowers of one of the Plectranthus mixed with bright yellow Bulbine vagans drew our attention. A frog was disturbed amongst the litter on the trail and was photographed and identified as a Great Barred Frog.  

On the Grey Gum Track

Great Barred Frog, Mixophyes fasciolatus

Up Close and Personal with Fungi

The orchid enthusiasts found and photographed a number of the tiny terrestrial orchids but not all were as easy to see.

The tiny orchid
at the point
of the lens.

Photographing the orchids

The wonderful camp facilities - bell tents for those who did not have their own accommodation, (the upper class in the club opted for this), the large, well set up camp kitchen, hot showers and clean eco toilets as well as the variety of habitats and wonderful scenery on this property, and good company  – made for a very comfortable and enjoyable few days.  

Below are some Leaf Litter Landscapes from the Bindarrabi Camp

Bulbine Lily, Bulbine vagans

Adapted from the FFNC Inc newsletter    
                 

‘Bindarrabi’  Species Lists

Bird List – - 50 Birds

Aust. Wood Duck, Pacific Black Duck, Aust. Grebe, Bar-shouldered Dove, Glossy Black Cockatoo, Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo, Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, Rainbow Lorikeet, Aust. King Parrot, Crimson Rosella, Eastern Rosella, Southern Boobook, Laughing Kookaburra, White-throated Treecreeper, Red-browed Treecreeper, Green Catbird, Satin Bowerbird, Variegated Fairy Wren, White-browed Scrubwren, Brown Gerygone, White-throated Gerygone, Striated Thornbill, Brown Thornbill, Spotted Pardalote, Striated Pardalote, Eastern Spinebill, Lewin’s Honeyeater, Yellow-faced Honeyeater, Bell Miner, Noisy Miner, White-throated Honeyeater, Noisy Friarbird, Little Friarbird, Eastern Whipbird, Grey Shrike-thrush, Dusky Woodswallow, Grey Butcherbird, Aust. Magpie, Pied Currawong, Grey Fantail, Willie Wagtail, Restless Flycatcher, Paradise Riflebird, Rose Robin, Eastern Yellow Robin, Welcome Swallow, Mistletoebird, Red-browed Finch, Chestnut-breasted Mannikin, Aust. Pipit.      

Butterfly-Moth List -  12 Butterflies  - 1 Moth

Orchard Swallowtail, Greenish Grassdart, Common Grass Yellow, Cabbage White, Lemon Migrant, Lesser Wanderer, Wanderer, Glasswing, Meadow Argus, Wonder Brown, Brown Ringlet, Common Grass-blue, Granny’s Cloak Moth  

   

Frog – Great Barred Frog (Mixophyes fasciolatus)

Marsupials – Red-neck Wallaby (Macropus rufogriseus), Red-neck Pademelon (Thylogale thetis)

Terrestrial Orchids

Painted Fingers (Petalochilus pictus), Large Mosquito Orchid or Pixie Caps (Acianthus fornicatus), Dark Mosquito Orchid (Acianthus exsertus), small Mosquito Orchid (Acianthus pusillus), Fringed Helmet Orchid (Corysanthes fimbriata), Forest Wasp Orchid (Chiloglottis sphyrnoides), Nodding Greenhood (Peterostylis nutans) and another unidentified Greenhood.