Thirlmere Lakes National Park. 15th March 2013

It has been several years since I was here last and this time I came with different eyes.
 Going out and hoping to photograph a different range of flora around Sydney every week is a little harder than I thought when I first commenced this project. While there were plants in flower that I come across nearly every week (I don't want to keep showing the same ones) Thirlmere Lakes offered some new plants like the blue Grassland Daisy (they were everywhere) and the Autumn Bird-orchid as well as 12 different fungi.
I couldn't walk around the lakes as the main track was blocked by large puddles so most of the plants were photographed along the road. The level of the lakes themselves are very low, due to (it is thought) the long-tunnel coal mines that are nearby and there is concern that some of the rarer flora and fauna that rely on the lakes may disappear.



Brachyscome angustifolia var. angustifolia
  -  Grassland Daisy

 





Dillwynia parvifolia  -  Small Parrot-pea

 





Pimelea linifolia ssp. linifolia
 -  Slender Rice-flower

 



Glycine clandestina - Twining Glycine

 




Male flowers of Dodonaea triquetra  -  Common Hop Bush

 



Lagenophora stipitata
 -  Common Lagenifera, Blue Bottle-daisy

 




Persoonia lanceolata  -   Lance-leave Geebung

 

Fungi, part 1.

 




Styphelia laeta var. angustifolia  -  Five Corners

 



Pratia purpurascens  -  White Root.

 



I think these are moss 'spore capsules'.

 



Acacia ulicifolia  -  Prickly Moses

 




Adiantum aethiopicum  -  Common Maidenhair Fern

 



Viola hederacea  -  Native Violet, Ivy-leaved Violet

 



Stylidium graminifolium  -  Grass Triggerplant

 

 

 

 

 



Chiloglottis reflexa
  -  Autumn Bird-orchid, Short Clubbed Wasp Orchid

 



Wahlenbergia gracilis
  -  Sprawling Bluebell, Australian Bluebell.

 



Arthropodium milleflorum  -  Pale Vanilla Lily

 




Flowers of  a Hedgehog (Echidna) Grass
 -   Echinopogon sp.

 




Fungi, part 2.

 



Helichrysum sp.   Everlasting daisy.

 

 

 

Just to get a photo. 

 

FEATHERS, FUR and FANG. Some Of The Wildlife Seen Today.



Blue Skimmer  -  Orthetrum caledonicum  (Dragon Fly)

 

Brown Ringlet  -   Hypocysta metirius

 

Orb-weaver spider and lunch.

 

Black bull-ant.

 

Wombat hole.

 

The blue ant (Diamma bicolor, also known as the blue-ant or
bluebottle) is, despite its name and its appearance, not an ant
 at all, but rather a species of large solitary parasitic wasp
 sometimes known as a flower wasp. (Wikipedia)

Ambicodamus crinitus  -  Red and Black Spider



Ambicodamus crinitus  -  Red and Black Spider