The day started off for me with a keeper in the Bowls Club car park.
A pair of Eastern Spinebills were gathering insects from the foliage of one of the trees. It probably means they were feeding babies as spinebills are fairly dedicated nectar eaters usually and they feed their young insects for the protein. I think there was a nest in a bush beside the railway line.
On to Forest Rd picnic ground where a patient Bill was waiting. We decided to check the car park/picnic ground area first and ticked yellow robins, Eastern Whipbirds (call and a glimpse), blue wrens, scrubbies, a lyrebird (call), etc.
A scan under a stand of acacias produced this as yet identified fungus.
While scruffing around on the ground, checking camera settings, etc, we disturbed this bloke…
Most Lace Monitors I have seen are nearly always near picnic grounds. This small one seemed to be on lean times, it had plenty of loose skin.
We left the goanna in peace and began the walk to the falls. Along the way we heard more lyrebirds but there wasn’t a lot of interesting fungi. Here’s a couple of regulars…
Parks or someone has continued the track down to the falls with some very convenient rock steps, but the cascades are nearly invisible due to overgrown scrub – here’s a shot of a small section from several years ago…
Along the way we saw some nice examples of Scaevola sp.
The walk back down the road was largely uninteresting except Bill decided to pick up rubbish and soon had his hands full.
Lunch back at the cars got a little exciting when the often-overlooked species, Large-billed Scrubwren, appeared very briefly for some rapid camera work.
An unusual, or at least a not usually seen bird capped the day off nicely.
We returned to Labertouche via Teatree Tr to discover that the Bunyip River Rd, a good haunt for all sorts of stuff, has finally been reopened after the last fires. More exploring!
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