Fairy Orchids on Grosvenor Fire Trail : September 4 2023

Monday comes around in a jiffy. Like every day I cannot recall what I did the mo ring before until I look at the photos. Wrote up some investments. Did more tidy up outside - am staying away from tidy up in the house other than my study. Now I know what went on - house stylists came in to get the house ready for open house. Everything is white. All book cases are gone - buyers use Kindle I guess. It is all coastal like the Hamptons. Irks me as we're a long way from the sea and we live next to the bush - bring back brown and green.

Jumped in the car to walk Grosvenor Street Fire Trail holing to find fairy orchids and flying duck orchids. Got luck with the former in the same area as last year

Fairy orchids are no bigger than a baby ginger nail

Super happy with the photos - caladenia alata - they are so tiny

Found a waxlip orchid on the little side track - do not think I have seen them here before

Lots of these tiny white flowers open - perfect spot for bee action

Red spider grevillea in perfect light with a track view

Lots of this large pea flower. One day I will look up ID

Leptospermum squarrosum on the way back to main trail

Pink wax flower

Different form of pea flower

Kunzea are just opening - Lots of good raw material for photos

This one is fully open

Perfect light against the setting sun for this photo

Budding sun orchid back on the main track

Found one more fairy orchid on the main trail - not seen them here

There is a turn out about 400 metres into the track. Found a bug cluster of small waxlip orchids there. I have seen them here before but not as many flowers open - 11. Caladenia glossodia is the new taxonomy

Hibbertia

Cannot remember the name of this one bit I do recall processing the spiky bits in the flower body

Found just a few flying duck orchids budding in a known spot just as the escarpment drops away

Next plant is further behind opening as it has not started sending out a flower spike. Last jear there were 25 to 30 plants - this year just a few.

One more sun orchid on the way back - thelymitra ixioides

Budding caleana major - very short on plants this year

A little spider action. Photo was hard work - the spider was stick still as it was suckling the life out of the insect - in two red ring

Sydney boronia

A few waxlips on the way back. In prior years this left hand side was the place for these

Fully open sun orchid with a few touches of punk especially on the tufts

A side by side column study

Full frontal - thelymitra ixioides

Spied this spike in the bush in about the same spot as I saw yellow leak orchids in the last two seasons

3 similar spikes- will come back. Showed those off to Sue and Angus walking this as part of their daily find orchids walk. Now I am not 100% on ID as an orchid - it seems too wide. We shall see

In the same spot Angus pointed out an orchid they had seen previously. It is not one I have seen - too late to look up ID - it is a leek orchid

First of the milkmaids in flower - hard ti decide which is the better photo

Burchadia umbrellata

An orchid spike of some sort. Hard to know - maybe a microtis as the spike looks like a sheath.

Was good to walk the track again - it is an easy level walk and lots to see

Cooked chicken curry for dinner

Trade action: Assigned early to buy AWK made havoc on cash balances. Work to do to free up capital

This report was published via Actifit app (Android | iOS). Check out the original version here on actifit.io

Daily Activity, Gardening, House Chores, Photowalking