Lilybrook Break - 15 August 2020

Ferns sprouting out of the rock at Lilybrook Break

It was a damp looking morning but still there were twenty members happy to brave the weather. 

Admiring the old Blue Gums

A shower as we started, and a downpour at the end but inbetween was perfect, fine and warm. 

Baby Blue Eyes (Evolvulus alsinoides)

Spring wildflowers were just coming into bloom. 

Fauna species lists:

Birds: Brown Quail, Australian Wood Duck, ,Bar-shouldered Dove ,Australasian Darter, Great Cormorant, Little Black Cormorant, Little Pied Cormorant, Australian Pelican, White-faced Heron, Straw-necked Ibis, White-bellied Sea-eagle, Whistling Kite, Dusky Moorhen, Black-winged Stilt, Masked Lapwing, Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, Little Corella, Long-billed Corella, Galah, Rainbow Lorikeet, Scaly-breasted Lorikeet, Little Lorikeet, King Parrot, Pale-headed Rosella, Little Bronze-cuckoo, Pheasant Coucal, Laughing Kookaburra, Rainbow Bee-eater, Superb Fairy-wren, Red-backed Fairy-wren, White-throated Gerygone, Striated Pardalote, White-throated Honeyeater, Striped Honeyeater, Scarlet Honeyeater, Brown Honeyeater, Yellow-faced Honeyeater, Noisy Miner, Noisy Friarbird, Little Friarbird, Grey-crowned Babbler, Rufous Whistler, Olive-backed Oriole, Pied Butcherbird, Grey Butcherbird, Australian Magpie, Willie Wagtail, Torresian Crow, Magpie-lark, Golden-headed Cisticola, Tawny Grassbird, Silvereye, Welcome Swallow, Double-barred Finch.

Mammals: Eastern Grey Kangaroo

Butterflies: Common Grass-yellow (Eurema hecabe phoebus), Small Grass-yellow (Eurema smilax), Common Eggfly (Hypolimnas bolina nerina).