by Tanya | Nov 6, 2017 | dry forests, flowering, peas, Uncategorized
This year the various pea species in the region are putting on a wonderful show. The Large leaf bush peas in my local forest are covered in huge, healthy looking yellow and orange flowers. The peas are a very important plant group in our local forest – and surpass...
by Tanya | Jul 8, 2016 | Deer, Exotic animals, Uncategorized
A few nights ago, I spotted a family group of deer on the roadside as I drove to Daylesford. There was a female deer, a male with small horns, and a young deer. The adults crossed the road towards Leitches Creek Bushland Reserve while the young deer stared at me with...
by Tanya | Mar 14, 2016 | birds, breeding behaviour, Diamond firetail, dry forests, Uncategorized
I most often write about the flora and fauna of the wetter, more higher elevations of the Wombat Forest and surrounds. The forests around Daylesford, Porcupine Ridge, Glenlyon have tall messmates and candlebarks, silver wattles and blackwood, and birds such as...
by Tanya | Jan 22, 2016 | beetles, insects, Jewel beetles, Uncategorized, wattles
What better way to bring in the beginning of 2016 than a beetle-spotting walk? My dogs are fairly old now, so they do not mind if a slow walk along our dirt road involves the examination of eucalypt and wattle regrowth. One never knows what delights may be observed...
by Tanya | Dec 31, 2015 | Flora, Hyacinth Orchid, Orchids, Uncategorized
Hyacinth Orchids are so unlike the rest of the wildflowers in these dry forests. They reach up out of the leaf litter or barren roadside gravel in a showy and shocking display of flashy pink. We have two kinds here – the more common Rosy Hyacinth Orchid which is...
by Tanya | Dec 15, 2015 | birds, changing range, cuckoo, Uncategorized
Sometimes it is very obvious when the bird you can hear calling is new to the area. In the last couple of weeks a number of Daylesford residents were treated to an extremely loud ‘tee-looo tee-loo’ call – somewhat like a repetitive peacock call. Fiona McIntyre...
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