Casuarina walk

 It has been a while since I did the Casuarina Walk and thought there might be some interesting wattle s along there.  That wasn't the case but it was a pleasant stroll.  I only did half the walk as it was the gullies I was mainly interested in

Here is an Allocasuarina verticillata, regrowing from a lignotuber.  It is going to be a long while before they are providing food for Glossy Black-Cockatoos.

Throughout the area covered by my walk the vegetation has regrown dramatically.  Most of it is Acacia, mainly A. longifolia or A. terminalis, with a wise range of species in the understorey.

The next few photos cover members of the family Fabaceae.  Quite a few specimens of Indigofera australis along the track.

Glycine clandestina is not really clandestine, but quite obvious climbing over other foliage!

The most obvious of the family is Hardenbergia violacea climbing over everything with very showy flowers

The other obvious climber in some areas is Kennedia rubicunda.  Aound the Betka area it if the dominant foliage climbing several metres up tree trunks.  It has grown dramatically as years of seeds in the ground were stimulated by the 2019-20 fire to germinate.  Last year it didn't flower greatly but the signs are that it will do so this year. 

I found a few open flowers: they are much larger than those of Kennedia prostrata a ground-hugging species.

There was a fair amount of bird call and a few were bold enough to be seen.  Golden Whistler male is shown: he was attracting a female but she didn't hang around for a photo.

Several White-throated Treecreepers were heard and one actually stayed the right side of the tree trunk to be snapped.