It was a brilliant, warm sunny morning when the Fassifern Field Nats met at the Discovery Centre at Karawatha. There was a mixture of newer and long-term members; some meeting for the first time. We spent a wonderful half-hour at the Centre which is an amazing resource. Our walk started out on the Ironbark Circuit which is predominantly Ironbark and Spotted Gum that changed to predominantly Ironbark and Stringybark as we grew closer to the sandstone ridges.
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| Fungi - Amanita ochrophylloides |
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| Nats in Karawatha Forest |
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| Shepherd's Crook Orchid (Geodorum densiflorum) |
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| Orange Ringlet (Hypocysta adiante) Photo: L. Euston |
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| Carpet Python in our hosts' garden |
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| Common
Crow (Euploea core) on Monkey Rope Vine (Parsonsia straminea), also in the garden |
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| Boletellus sp. |
Birds: (also
MS) = also seen at Mildura Street: Galah, Sulphur-crested
Cockatoo, Rainbow Lorikeet, Scaly-breasted Lorikeet, Laughing Kookaburra (also
MS), Rainbow Bee-eater, White-throated Treecreeper, Spotted Pardalote, Striated
Pardalote, Noisy Miner (also MS), Scarlet Honeyeater, White-throated
Honeyeater, Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike, Golden Whistler, Grey Shrike-thrush,
Grey Butcherbird, Pied Butcherbird, Australian Magpie, Pied Currawong, Spangled
Drongo, Grey Fantail, Willie Wagtail, Torresian Crow, Magpie-lark, Eastern
Yellow Robin, Welcome Swallow,
Mistletoebird.
Butterflies: Small Grass-yellow (Eurema
smilax), Black Jezebel (Delias nigrina), Wanderer (Danaus
plexippus), Common Crow (Euploea core), Orange Ringlet (Hypocysta
adiante).
Mammals: Wallaby sp.; too
quick for identification.
Reptiles: Elegant Snake-eyed
Skink or Wall Skink (Cryptoblepharus pulcher).
Spiders: Garden Orb Weaver (Eriophora
transmarina), Golden Orb-Weaver (Nephila plumipes), Daddy Longlegs (Pholcus phalangioides).
Some
of the plants that caught our interest: Our walk started out in predominantly
Ironbark and Spotted Gum woodland and changed to predominantly Ironbark and
Stringybark as we grew closer to the sandstone ridges.
Heterodea
muelleri,
(a common ground lichen in open eucalypt forests of South East Queensland).
Flat-stem
Wattle (Acacia complanata), Black She-oak (Allocasuarina littoralis),
Soap Tree or Red Ash (Alphitonia excelsa), Smooth-barked Apple (Angophora
leiocarpa), Rough-barked Apple (Angophora woodsiana), Spotted Gum (Corymbia
maculata), Bailey's Stringybark (Eucalyptus baileyana), Tallowwood (Eucalyptus
microcorys), Needlebark Stringybark or Bastard Tallowwood (Eucalyptus
planchoniana), Grey Gum (Eucalyptus punctata), Yellow Jacket (Eucalyptus
similis), Shepherd's Crook Orchid (Geodorum densiflorum), Brush Box
(Lophostomen confertus), Swamp Box or Swamp Mahogany (Lophostemon
suaveolens), Monkey Rope Vine or Common Silkpod (Parsonsia straminea)
- flowering, Quinine Tree (Petalostigma pubescens) - fruiting.
Also
at Mildura Street, Stretton
Butterflies: Greenish Grass
Dart (Ocybadistes walker), Common Crow (Euploea core), Large
Purple Line-blue (Nacaduba berenice), Speckled Line Blue (Catopyrops
florinda).
Reptiles: Carpet Python (Morelia
spilota)
Other
Invertebrates:
Stick
Insect (possibly Anchiale austrotessulata)
Spiders: Brisbane or Brown
Huntsman (Heteropoda jugulans)
