I went to the Back
Creek TSR (Captains flat Rd) on the way home from a workshop near
Braidwood.
I was very
surprised to find almost every Common everlasting daisy (Chrysocephalum
apiculatum) in flower and lots of Pale everlastings daisies (Helichrysum
rutidolepis- I think) in flower in the damper patches. Also a few examples of
Mauve Burr-daisy (Calotis glandulosa), a threatened species, Hoary Sunrays and
curved riceflower Pimelia (P.curviflora) in flower and a couple of Billy Buttons
(Craspedia variabilis) just finished. Lots
of noisy miners and Aust Ravens.
The site looked
fantastic and so ‘late’ in the year. There were also many insects of midge size
flying around. I think this helps back-up my
suggestion that this year is a ‘late’ year because we basically missed spring
due to the sudden change to hot weather and no rain. Now birds are breeding and
plants are flowering, that would normally do so in Spring.
I watched ‘Pursuit of Happyness’ on the
weekend- in that movie he says he ‘had a very stupid moment’. Well I had one of
those. Also in The Big Twitch, he also had a ‘stupid moment’ deciding to drive
in the Outback after dark. In my case,
I decided to leave at dusk to maximise my time at the TSR. Afterwards, I wound my
way through Tallaganda on a wet dirt Rd to Captains flat. Not a very good
idea, dodging swamp wallabies. But since I missed them all and didn’t drive off
a cliff I can say in hindsight ‘it was all worth it’!
Benj
