Location approximate, near Geehi substation. The plants in the 3rd photo are resprouting after fire.
Male Mouse Spider
After very heavy rain.
More than 1000 plants found at this location this year. I have recorded a single plant there in 2013, but not in the exact same location, so it's possible I missed the larger population then. This site did not burn in 2020, and this newly discovered population slightly compensates for the apparent complete loss of the large population on Little Bog Creek after the high intensity fire there caused considerable alteration to the bog hydrology. Maybe they will return in a drier season when the bog is not quite so full.
Lightly scattered through the Bega Swamp bog at 1090m elevation. I've seen them more abundant in previous seasons, but whether the lower numbers are a response to the early 2020 fire which burnt through the bog, or the very wet conditions this year is not apparent.
This Swamp Wallaby in Cape Conran Coastal Park picked a fungi and used its paws to eat it.
Maratus literatus ?
Looks a little different. Not sure how far the variation stretches or if there's a better fit...
Under a picnic table
Typical of scenes in the general area with large stands of flowering Incense Plant lining the roads or stretching along gullies burnt in summer 2019-20. Many over 4m in height. Beautiful scent on an overcast humid day.
Many hundreds of flowering plants in this vicinity.
Many hundreds of flowering plants in this vicinity.
Crayfish hole: Sheep Station Creek Track, Mallacoota.
Hunting frogs in man made pond .
Size ~ 900mm
At least 5 pairs in the general area
Area burnt 19th December 2019
Location very approximate, along My Youngal road, a couple of occurrence growing on a northish facing roadside cutting. It keys to collina ssp paludosa, if you accept that the calyx is basically glabrous, despite having a few scattered hairs. Calling the calyx hairy could make it the regionally extinct ssp muelleri, but it was not as hairy as that is depicted in the Flora of NSW. I've taken a specimen and will get the ID confirmed eventually. Plants were abundant in the 2 locations I saw them, but not seen anywhere else, in montane forest at 1240m elevation.
Recovering from 2019 burn
In Pygmy Possum Nest Box installed after the 2019/2020 bushfires
Building a nest.
Found beneath a piece of eucalypt. Approx 3cm
Wombat located in a fire affected area Feb 2020
Spotted just a couple of metres off the shoreline
First flowering of waratahs after fires of 19th December 2019
7 plants observed in area ~ 2 metre square in moist shaded area adjoining intermittent creek line.
Area burnt 19th December 2019
Observed in this location previously.
Regrowth following the fire of January 2019.
a surprisingly calm lyrebird feeding beside the road near Tianjara Falls, about 30km west of Nowra NSW.
Just a pair.
Pure white flowers on this plant. Growing in bushland.
First time observed in the creek line.
Four observed in approx 100m of creek line
Normally we have seen only the Yabby species.
https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Boronia~granitica
Threatened species: NSW BCA: Vulnerable; Commonwealth EPBC: Endangered
https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=10098
Workshop enclosure.
Surprised to see one out so late in the day/season as it was less than 10C and has been going below zero at night.
Burn date 8th November 2019. Better photos of the Rakali so hopefully someone can ID it.
This poor little chap must have flown into the window as he was stunned, but eventually recovered.
Male and Female .
Area burnt 19th December 2019
The first nearly all white Eastern grey joey to be seen out of the pouch on my place since the fire. Bodes well that Creamy and/or Snowy, the white males, are still around. I have seen 50/50, Dazzle's mother, and Dazzle, a joey before the fire but not immature adult.
First flowering post December 2019/January 2020 bushfires
Moderate intensity burning around car park and nearby area, and on way to waterhole. Fire impact not as pronounced around waterhole.
The fire was more recent than the Black Summer fires, most likely occurring in mid-November 2020.
The location has been generalised a bit since this is a threatened species. Most of the bog and all of the surrounding forest burnt at high intensity in Jan 2020. E. scabra has been present in high numbers at one site here, and in lower numbers at 3 other sites in past years, but post-fire, it was only present in 2 of those sites (the other 2 being currently too wet for it due to elevated seepage out of the burnt forests). Plants reduced to 114 and 30 at the 2 sites, c.f. a peak combined population of >6500 in 2016. Numbers had dropped due to drought prior to the fire, but less drastically (1200 in 2019). In the 2nd photo the open water in the background did not exist pre-fire, but has been created by consumption of reed beds and underlying peat. At least the fire has reduced the impact of feral herbivores, but probably only temporarily as there was deer scat and prints in the vicinity.
A couple of seedlings 14 months after fire burnt through much of this old growth stand of cool temperate rainforest dominated by Elaeocarpus holopetalus in Jan 2020. Many trees were dead, so a lot more light was getting through to ground level than usual. Although I only saw seedlings of Bedfordia at this location, I did also see it resprouting from the base along the road on the way out.
really tall >2.5m, flowering after Dec 19 fire
Flowering after bushfire Dec19
flowering in profusion 9 months after bushfire
So good to be finding these guys within the area burnt by bushfire in March 2019. So many out today.