On the first weekend of September, we had a nice spring walk, at the Southern parklands Carriageway Park, the park is bounded by Greenhill Road, Beaumont Road, South Terrace and Hutt Road. The park features a carriageway of historic elm trees, dating from the 1870's, that form a gentle arc through the centre of the Park. As a 'Trees for Life' bush care site the park is revegetated with native grass.
Meeting a little earlier than our typical meeting time, we waited and talked about the park, while we did this we noticed a mosquito on Peter's and were lucky enough to get a great photograph of a well feed female. We came across several more during the day but not many more photos. We set off shortly after and got caught in a heavy downpoor but managed to weather the storm.
a short way from the carpark we spotted a Sulphur-crested CockatooCacatua galerita high up in a river gum.
Heading off to the replanted grassland, and we saw that the grassland had been burned earlier in the season we were interested to see if we could see any effect. We noticed several fly species including hoverflies and other fly species particularly around the edge of the grassland.
The open grassland was then explored, the wet weather has encouraged some regrowth in the grasslands. Overall the number of observations increased from 232 to 267 increasing the number of species recorded in the park from 100 to 112 species, although this will probably increase as some of the invertebrates are identified., including an amazing wasp seen roasting on the grass (below).
Please check out this interesting urban park on the southern fringe of the Adelaide CBD. To find out the activities around South Australia please have a look at the update by Geoffrey Cox