Mount Misery | Still Not Miserable
Tas Field Nats ascend upon Mount Misery What a marvellous Sunday was spent wandering the tracks at Mount Misery with an equally marvellous group of people. The Field Nats last visited Mount Misery in 2018, you can read about it…
Herbarium | Day Ten
We found this weird Stellaria up in the central plateau a while back. We didn’t really notice it was weird at first. We just kinda went ‘it’s a Stellaria, it’s probably just S. multiflora‘ and then moved along looking for…
Where Where Wedgie? | Zero Heroes
Three black cockatoos, a murder of ravens, a handful of currawongs and a dear little eastern spinebill. But alas no raptors. Never mind, no data is still useful data, and it was a good excuse to go for a wander…
Woodvine Wandering | Day Ten
Woodvine Nature Reserve Out the back of Forcett is a 377 hectare property which is managed by the Parks and Wildlife Service as a nature reserve. It was donated to the crown a little while back by the landowner, Ernie…
Aurora Australis | What The HECK
It would be negligent of me to not acknowledge the massive reaction of charged particles which recently got ejected from the sun and reacted with the various gases in the atmosphere… Or what is commonly referred to as the Aurora…
Mergin Maps | Data Collecting for the Win
Do you data? I love collecting data. Some might say I have a bit of a strange relationship with timing, counting, plotting and collecting information in relation to things I do. Don’t get me wrong, I can do a task…
Mount Cameron | Field Nats and Granite
Easter spent the right way I have written about the Tas Field Nats Club before, a couple of times (here and here), and now I am writing about them again. This time in relation to the Easter Camp at Mount…
Lake Belcher Track | With No Lake
The Day Ten Project Recently I switched to a nine day fortnight at work, leaving the tenth day for exploring and botanising. Today I decided to wander out past Wombat Moor along the Lake Belcher Track up at Mount Field…
Photographing Nature | Nicely
What constitutes the perfect nature photo? Is it the detail and the sharpness? The composition? The balance of colour and light or the way they interact? Perhaps it is all those things and no doubt you will come up with…
Happy (serrated tussock) Days | The Four Legged Fonz
Those who know me, know I am not really much of a dog person. When I encounter dogs of any shape or size, I tend to immediately protect my throat, in fear they will go straight for it. When I…