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Winter is a great time for getting outdoors and exploring the different types of fungi in your region. Whether it’s in pine plantation, native bush, open paddocks, or even in your own backyard, you’ll see mushrooms popping up everywhere. On a recent fungi photography hunt,...
The weather has been a little crazy this summer and has definitely affected the life at Kurrawonga. The recent heavy summer rains have led to an explosion of the fungi world including one large ghost mushroom colony. Sadly, the hot days very early in the...
Introducing Kurrawonga’s two-tailed resident! As a self-defence strategy to distract predators, most lizards can drop their tails when hit or stressed. The dropped tail will continue wriggling to catch the predator’s attention and allow for the lizard’s speedy escape. This self-amputation mechanism is also known...
Saturday 8th June – Our fungi journey began on a beautiful morning in the local Bolwarra bushland in Victoria. Nicole and I joined the Portland Field Naturalists on a fungi survey led by fungi expert and mycologist, Dr Sapphire McMullan-Fisher. Sapphire introduced us to a wide...
As you will have noticed if you’ve been outdoors in the past couple of months, it’s fungi season! For most of the year, we barely cast a thought toward fungi, but when the cooler and wetter weather triggers many species to start fruiting (producing mushrooms)...