Cascades

Common Prettymouth Calostoma fuscum.  A stalked puffball.

An Earthstar puffball Geastrum sp.

Soft Tree Fern Dicksonia antarctica

Stony Creek

Little Basket Shell Corbicula sp. possibly Corbicula australis.

A great day for tracks. Wombat Vombatus ursinus

Fox Vulpes vulpes

The weir near Casuarina Sands

Stony Creek

Mushrooms!

Canberra just had a good couple of days of rain, so now there are mushrooms. All these were growing near Pines Pinus radiata and other European trees by Lake Burley Griffin.

These are some kind of Bolete, I'm going with Weeping Bolete Suillus granulatus- speckled stem, no ring on stem, colour of flesh light yellow to white.

This particular mushroom had a resident fly that would not move off whilst being photographed. It did seem a little edgy though, and after a while it flew at me in a defensive attack. Its likely to be a male fly from the heleomyzidae family, defending his mushroom against other males.

Shaggy Ink Cap Coprinus comatus.

Fly Agaric Amanita muscaria.  These are well known around Canberra.

Death Caps Amanita phalloides. They were large and shone a beautiful brass gold in the sun and were quite attractive.

There was a smaller one:

And an older specimen approx. 15 cm across the cap:

The membranous skirt

White flesh inside.

Here they are looking innocent enough from a distance.

The mushrooms were also growing out of an obvious white cup-like vulva at the base.

Lookout Knoll

Lookout Knoll in the rain

A couple of Scribbly Gums Eucalyptus rossii were doing this great red-and-white thing in the rain.

That very tiny white speck on the further slope in the picture is a deer. Given she was very white coloured, I'm guessing Fallow Deer.