Dear All
Have just had two nights/3 days camping at Polblue swamp in the Tops. We
had walks with Anne Heinrichs, who wrote A Field Guide to Sub-alpine
Flora of Barrington Tops, looking for the endemics and orchids. Walked
around the swamp at Polblue Sunday and then drove to Junction Pools
Monday. Some nice finds. Bearded, Parson's Bands and Veined Doubletail
orchids and the tiny flowered Scented Onion Orchid which has a beautiful
smell and only grows in sphagnam moss swamps. And a few Fringed
Eyebright which once were so common they coloured grassland purple blue.
Lots of Flame Robins around, plus Olive Whistlers calling, Satin
Flycatchers, both Monarchs, Sitellas, Boobook and Tawny Frogmouth
calling at night, Brown Quail by day, and a group of 8 Musk Lorikeets
screeching in the tree tops. Lots of blossom in some of the gums but
never heard a Noisy Friarbird, they seem to have flown to lower
altitudes where I heard them calling along the Barrington River in the
River Oaks.
So when the heat gets to you, drive up to the Tops, cool off, and see
some nice things while you're there.
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