City Nature Challenge - Not to be missed!- Lorraine Phelan
My family announced that they were going away for the weekend of the City Nature Challenge. Did I want to join them? No way, Jose!
So I had four days to myself with no commitments, no meals to prepare, no clocks to watch.
I had a wonderful time photographing (mainly plants) in the Shelford area, the Brisbane Ranges, Forrest and Stevenson’s Falls and, on Monday, the Anglesea heath. I set up the moth sheet in my back yard. Each evening I sat with my feet up while I sorted through my photos, editing and uploading. I had my reference books out all week while I admired everyone else’s uploads and tried to help with the identification when I could.
My best finds? A stunningly beautiful Red-banded Greenhood, a Smooth Solenogyne, and two Threatened plant species, Button Wrinklwort and Spiny Rice-flower, growing next to each other in the grassland.
From the first photo on iNaturalist, a Welcome Swallow uploaded by Deborah, to the last it was all fun. And exhausting.
Lorraine Phelan
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