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Helen Robertson
@helenrobertson.bsky.social
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On Peerapper country - Zoologist, Fungi Enthusiast living with 2 Border Collies, 3 Jerseys & a Light Sussex flock! Bushwalking, gardening, sustainable living, mycology, photography.
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Helen Robertson @helenrobertson.bsky.social · 3d
This is Tasmania in mid spring lol...yesterday at Cradle Mountain
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Helen Robertson @helenrobertson.bsky.social · 6d
They were stunning and each seemed to have quite a different personality....definitely helped by the hairdos of kangaroo fern lol....
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Helen Robertson @helenrobertson.bsky.social · 7d
Something erratic from the west of Tasmania :)
My grandsons pretending to hold up an interesting perched erratic. A boulder left on top of another larger one by the glacier that made them both... A close up look at the conglomerate all the erratics were made of. Generally reddish background rock with many lumps of red, white and grey quartz within. This towering erratic had meter wide scrape marks from the glacier that left it here. It was twisted and scoured by the ice. An extraordinary shape that looked like it should fall over. A plaque explaining how the erratic are formed
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Helen Robertson @helenrobertson.bsky.social · Sep 13
We also found some nice slime moulds - apologies...I do not yet have a slime mould book to be able to ID them
This one's common name is salmon spawn... and with its bright orange globes it's easy to see why! This dark pink one had several stages along a log. It starts white, then orange, then this dark pink and lastly a dark brown as it matures! Clusters of yellow blobs on stalks make this an interesting slime mould. Lots of delicate white stalks of a commonly found slime mould starting to mature
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Helen Robertson @helenrobertson.bsky.social · Sep 13
...and some more:
More lovely fibe, white gills on this fresh new Hohenbuehelia atrocoerulea Two perfect pink Mycena vinacea (they smell like cucumber!) Perfect in pink... a lovely Clitocybe Little pins ... fresh Vibrissea dura. The caps will turn light brown as they age.
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Helen Robertson @helenrobertson.bsky.social · Sep 13
Some nice fungi finds from yesterday's forest scramble in the Dip River Forest Reserve.
Gorgeous delicate white bells hanging in the green moss... Chromocyphella muscicola Pseudomerulius curtisii has a whitish upper surface but underneath these lovely orange wrinkled gills. Dark bottle green glossy bunched cups of Claussenomyces australis growing on a fallen stick. Glorious red-orange gills of the pretty fan fungus Anthracophyllum archeri - always a good find!
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Helen Robertson @helenrobertson.bsky.social · Sep 8
Last season I saved seeds from my 'green dragon' broccoli and my red cabbages.
This year I have a few green dragon broccoli, a couple of red cabbages and lots of cabboli... or should that be broccages?
The chunky, pink veined, cabbage/broccoli cross. Prolific bearer and very yummy! One of the baby red cabbages...looking like it should! The green dragon broccoli plant looking as it should. Slender side shoots of broccoli.
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Helen Robertson @helenrobertson.bsky.social · Aug 19
Stunning!!
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Christine Milne @christinemilne.bsky.social · Aug 19
Imagine having a Productivity Summit with the theme of Resilence and failing to address first up the impact on Australian life, community, landscape and infrastructure of existential twin crises of global heating and biodiversity collapse. Instead it’ll be Env is a handbrake on ‘jobs and growth’.
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Helen Robertson @helenrobertson.bsky.social · Aug 17
Love the Lobster Falls walk...and you found some lovelies too!
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Helen Robertson @helenrobertson.bsky.social · Aug 17
Waterfall wetness....
Second cascade at Liffey Falls...ferns in foreground Water cascading over rocks First cascade at Liffey Falls... a bit obstructed by overhanging trees... Second cascade at Liffey Falls...looking like it's falling down a set of stairs
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Helen Robertson @helenrobertson.bsky.social · Aug 12
Lazy rainy afternoon... sitting with a pot of French Earl Grey tea... perfect to settle in the 11 barrow loads of mulch I spread around the garden earlier today!
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Helen Robertson @helenrobertson.bsky.social · Aug 8
Oh wow!!
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Helen Robertson @helenrobertson.bsky.social · Aug 8
Oh...you are right!! Hahaha.... I'm so used to finding the others!
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Helen Robertson @helenrobertson.bsky.social · Aug 8
Then we got back to the car to find this handsome chap chastising his reflections!
Gorgeous Scarlet Robin came and sat on the rear vision mirror... so close! Kept flying at his reflections in the car windows.... Was that a movement inside the car?? Side view...such a handsome fellow!
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Helen Robertson @helenrobertson.bsky.social · Aug 8
We stopped at Hellyer Gorge on the way home...may have found more fungi hahaha
Beautiful fuzzy brown top of this Stereum illudens A cluster of horse hoof brackets - looking like rather rough horse hooves! BeautHerecium looking like a piece of coral growing on the bark. Big pagoda fungus - very spectacular! These must be quite long lived... sausage ones a couple of months ago!
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Helen Robertson @helenrobertson.bsky.social · Aug 8
Road trip to Waratah and surrounds...
The town of Waratah and in front the waterfall cascades down the rockface. A closer view of the waterfall - lots of noise needs to be imagined! A Pademelon with YAH on our way down to the waterfall. Fungi part of this pale green rock lichen fruiting in pretty pink discs
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Helen Robertson @helenrobertson.bsky.social · Aug 6
Too cool hey!!
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Helen Robertson @helenrobertson.bsky.social · Jul 29
Hahaha...you wouldn't have put it near your mouth...it stank...the sponge had been dead for couple days...
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Helen Robertson @helenrobertson.bsky.social · Jul 29
It really is... every beach walk I find something incredible!
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Helen Robertson @helenrobertson.bsky.social · Jul 29
I was astounded lol....
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Helen Robertson @helenrobertson.bsky.social · Jul 28
How cool is this decorated scallop I found on the beach this morning?
All perfectly normal from this angle... the beautiful pink and dark red colours of the inside of the shell... But on the outside of the shell a multi branched bright orange sponge gives the scallop a rather punk look!
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Helen Robertson @helenrobertson.bsky.social · Jul 23
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Helen Robertson @helenrobertson.bsky.social · Jul 23
It was pumping for sure!
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Helen Robertson @helenrobertson.bsky.social · Jul 23
Here's some waterfall joy for your day :)
Dip Falls, NWTas.
The top of the falls... dark tannin stained water churning to creamy white as it plunges over the basalt columns of the ancient solidified lava flow that once set the river on fire. From further away the whole shawl of the top falls is seen cascading over the sloping columns of basalt Looking down directly over the bottom falls as the water plunges down over the vertical columns of the first lava flow. Huge tree trunks jammed at the bottom foam spraying over the river banks.
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