As perhaps THE icon site for Canberra it is surprising how few people
survey Black Mountain, with the exception being Con and those who visit
ANBG.
Field Nats have a walk there on Sunday (7th Dec) at 2:30-5pm and all
welcome. Black mountain is intended to be a faster and more difficult
walk than normal and is not suitable for people with walking
difficulties, but it is worth it. Some interesting birds are described
below.
I visited the West side on 11/11/08, starting from the new carpark off
William Hovell/Rani Rd where a speckled warbler was feeding and hopping
up towards Belconnen Way. Entering the reserve the other side of the
tunnel there is a good patch of secondary grassland in flower with lots
of scaly buttons, Tricoryne lilies and paper daisies, plus Hibbertia and
everlasting daisies (both spp).
Heading into stringybark forest, which was very dry, I could hear pairs
of sacred kingfishers and leaden flycatches, a white throated gerygone,
noisy friarbird, ob oriole and many striated pardalotes. Interesting
plants included Joycea pallida in flower, donkey orchids, H. riparia,
Grevillea alpina, Pultenea and Helichrysum collinum (very rare).
I wont bore you with the rest but all up I saw 3 different pairs of both
sacred kingfishers and leaden flycatchers, perhaps the densest
collection of any reserve I can think of. Other interesting birds
included a grey currawong and flock of striated thornbills.
Directions: Drive along William Hovell Dr towards civic, pass Bindubi St
then turn onto the old Caswell Dr Rd just before reaching the GDE
overpass. This Black Mountain reserve car park is well signposted. The
carpark is the old Rani Rd.
Benj Whitworth
ps- OK I will bore you, there was also a wet gully with unusual species
including Mirbelia oxylobioides (egg and bacon pea), Leptospermum
multicaule, trigger plants and Brachyloma and Lomandra still in flower.
A dollarbird could be heard calling from Aranda bushland.
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