It’s that time of year – the natural world here in Western Australia has started to step up a gear and  it is time to get out and see it and more importantly photograph it.

I was recently reading a book on Western Australian orchids and I discovered within it mention of a few species that are found in the Wheatbelt, where I live, that I had never heard of before let alone seen. After a bit more research and a consultation with Florabase and Atlas of Living Australia I was all set to head off to Kweda.

 

 

 

 

It was nice to get out and about again, but after seeing a couple of road signs I wasn’t so sure I’d made the right decision. Kweda Reserve is located on the corner of an intersection of two dirt roads and  apart from the reserve the only other feature of note was a mobile phone tower. Getting out of the car it seemed as if the bottom end of the reserve once played host to a railway siding. The tracks were long gone only the embankments and a few bridges over creek lines remained. There was quite a bit of water about thanks to the late heavy rains and I was quite surprised as the genus of orchids I was looking for tend to favour drier sandy soils rather than the heavy wet clay that was at Kweda. There were a lot of birds and dragonflies about and I saw a bob tailed lizard happily grazing on some mushrooms.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Did I find what I was looking for? No. But, I did find a couple of species I’d not photographed before so it was worth the effort. I’m also hoping to visit again, and the nearby Lake Mears, looking for wildlife.

 

The title for this blog entry came from the song by Misty In Roots.