A trip to Mt Beckworth near Clunes on Saturday was rewarded with Wax-lips, Nodding Greenhoods and Golden Moth orchids and several species of small flora that are often overlooked.
Scarlet sundews are about to flower and there is a carpet of thousands of pale sundews, with many of the scented sundews well and truly finished and turning black. The highlight was probably seeing a pair of musk lorikeets emerging from their nesting hollow. It was a pleasant surprise to see so much water in the dams.
Brachyscome sp.
Millotia tenuifolia var. tenuifolia Soft Millotia
Siloxerus multiflora Small Wrinklewort
Levenhookia dubia Hairy Stylewort
Millotia muelleri Common Bow-flower
Brachsycome perpusilla Rayless Daisy
Drosera glanduligera Scarlet Sundew
A Golden Moth orchid trapped by a sundew
Thysanotus patersonii Twining Fringe-lily
A jaw bone in a field of sundews
A Musk Lorikeet emerging for a hollow
Oxalis perennans Grassland Wood-sorrel
Drosera aberrans Scented Sundew
Wurmbea dioica Common Early Nancy
A hole in the granite with a selection of waterplants
Dam near on of the picnic areas
Diuris chryseopsis – Golden Moths
The Field Naturalist Ballarat 