Excursion to Chauncy Vale, 3 Mar 2006
Chauncy Vale Wildlife Sanctuary is in Tasmania's Southern
Midlands and has recently been extended by the addition of Flat
Rock Reserve (pdf
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This half-grown Bennets Wallaby holding a Silver Wattle shrub stopped chewing to watch us go by.
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We sighted several of these distinctive little moths.
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Dung beetle about to bury three pellets of wallaby dung.
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A very delicate looking Coprinus aff. plicatilis, 20mm across.
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Bisporella citrina growing on a log; 3 to 5mm high.
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Early stage of Fuligo septica slime mould growing from a crack in a log. Granules about 1mm.
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This 80mm mushroom could be a Limacella sp.
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Laccaria sp., about 30mm diameter.
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A wolf spider waiting very patiently.
About 20mm body length.
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A White's Skink, Egernia whitii, emerging from its burrow.
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Mountain Dragon lizard.
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A fresh-water leech from Guvy's Lagoon, attached by its sucker at the left. It can also swim freely. The small fresh-water snail is Gyraulus meridionalis.
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Mite.
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A micro-garden.
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Eriochilus cucullatus orchid.
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A spikey young Coprosma.
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At Eve's Bath where Browns Caves Creek has cut a smooth channel in the bedrock.
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Photos by Kevin Bonham, Geoff Fenton, Qug McKendrick King