We walked along the dirt road extension of Great Western Road next to the Show-grounds followed by a walk through Esme Lahey Park (separate Report). See the Map in the detailed report below. We met at the entrance to the dirt road heading south from the bitumen at corner of Main Western Rd and Bartle Rd (on right at the corner if heading from North Tamborine past show-grounds). This is a quiet dead-end dirt road with some regeneration work with bird activity in early morning. There is also a cleared strip under power lines right through to where Main Western Road bitumen begins again at Whites Rd.
Report
This short strech of road is a good place to get some quick early morning birding with their activity in the bush lining the road. Perhaps also in late afternoon with the setting sun on the western escarpment.
As you walk down the road, on the right at the entrance is a very early small Landcare project. It has recently had some weed clearing. More recent weed clearing work on the right appears a hundred metres further down with what looks like some very old vehicle chasis/components exposed. This area is getting regenerated by self sewn native plants amongst more established natives like the giant stinging tree. However, we did notice a wide selection of invasive weeds shooting along the road edge.
The road finishes at some private properties so respect their privacy by not walking into their area.
Part way down the road, you can see Power/telephone line poles running south through a cleared easment (most likely the gazetted but unopened Main Western Road section. This continues to join up with the sealed southern section of Main Western Road.
For more details of plants see the report by Elizabeth in the Species tab.
Gallery
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- 2014-05-30 MainWestRdExt- Native Grape in fruit
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Nature Walk to Main Western Rd Extension on 30 May 2014 - Native Grape (Cissus hypoglauca) in fruit
- 2014-05-30 MainWestRdExt
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Nature Walk to Main Western Rd Extension on 30 May 2014
- 2014-05-30 MainWestRdExt - Giant Stinging Tree
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Nature Walk to Main Western Rd Extension on 30 May 2014 - Giant Stinging Tree (Dendrocnide excelsa)
- 2014-05-30 MainWestRdExt - Walking group
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Our Group setting off on Nature Walk down Main Western Rd Extension on 30 May 2014
- 2014-05-30 MainWestRdExt
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- 2014-05-30 MainWestRdExt - Exotic Tobacco and Ginger
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Nature Walk to Main Western Rd Extension on 30 May 2014 - Exotic Tobacco and Ginger trying to take advantage of recent clearing
- 2014-05-30 MainWestRdExt - Foam bark
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Nature Walk to Main Western Rd Extension on 30 May 2014 - Foam bark (Jagera pseudorhus)
- 2014-05-30 MainWestRdExt - Weeds & Bleeding Heart
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Nature Walk to Main Western Rd Extension on 30 May 2014 - Weeds & Bleeding Heart (Homalanthus populifolius)
- 2014-05-30 MainWestRdExt - Kangaroo Apple
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Nature Walk to Main Western Rd Extension on 30 May 2014 - Kangaroo Apple (Solanum aviculare)
- 2014-05-30 MainWestRdExt - Flowers & fruit of Kangaroo Apple
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Nature Walk to Main Western Rd Extension on 30 May 2014 - Flowers & fruit of Kangaroo Apple
- 2014-05-30 MainWestRdExt - Flowers & fruit of Kangaroo Apple
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Nature Walk to Main Western Rd Extension on 30 May 2014 - Flowers & fruit of Kangaroo Apple
- 2014-05-30 MainWestRdExt - Dwarf Panic Grass flowering
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Nature Walk to Main Western Rd Extension on 30 May 2014 - Dwarf Panic Grass (Panicum pygmaeum) flowering
- 2014-05-30 MainWestRdExt - A Giant Devil’s Fig problem!
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Nature Walk to Main Western Rd Extension on 30 May 2014 - A Giant Devil’s Fig (Solanum chrysotrichum) problem!
- 2014-05-30 MainWestRdExt - Tallow-wood and friends
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Nature Walk to Main Western Rd Extension on 30 May 2014 - Tallow-wood (Eucalyptus microcorys) and friends
- 2014-05-30 MainWestRdExt - Native Ginger
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Nature Walk to Main Western Rd Extension on 30 May 2014 - Native Ginger (Alpinia caerulea)
- 2014-05-30 MainWestRdExt - Cunjevoi and Bleeding Heart
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Nature Walk to Main Western Rd Extension on 30 May 2014 - Cunjevoi (Alocasia brisbanensis) and Bleeding Heart
- 2014-05-30 MainWestRdExt - Cunjevoi and Bleeding Heart
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Nature Walk to Main Western Rd Extension on 30 May 2014 - Cunjevoi (Alocasia brisbanensis) and Bleeding Heart
- 2014-05-30 MainWestRdExt - Madeira Vine a serious weed
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Nature Walk to Main Western Rd Extension on 30 May 2014 - Madeira Vine (Anredera cordifolia) – a serious weed
- 2014-05-30 MainWestRdExt - Shining Grape
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Nature Walk to Main Western Rd Extension on 30 May 2014 - Shining Grape (Tetrastigma nitens)
- 2014-05-30 MainWestRdExt
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- 2014-05-30 MainWestRdExt - Burls at the base of a Brush Box
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Nature Walk to Main Western Rd Extension on 30 May 2014 - Burls at the base of a Brush Box
- 2014-05-30 MainWestRdExt - White Apple or Hairy Walnut
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Nature Walk to Main Western Rd Extension on 30 May 2014 - White Apple (Endiandra virens) or Hairy Walnut (E. pubens)
- 2014-05-30 MainWestRdExt - Grey Gum
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Nature Walk to Main Western Rd Extension on 30 May 2014 - Grey Gum (Eucalyptus biturbinata)
- 2014-05-30 MainWestRdExt - Bush Lily
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Nature Walk to Main Western Rd Extension on 30 May 2014 - Bush Lily (Tripladenia cunninghamii)
- 2014-05-30 MainWestRdExt - Flowers of Bush Lily
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Nature Walk to Main Western Rd Extension on 30 May 2014 - Flowers of Bush Lily
- 2014-05-30 MainWestRdExt - Perhaps Pixie’s Parasol
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Nature Walk to Main Western Rd Extension on 30 May 2014 - Perhaps Pixie’s Parasol (Mycena interrupta)
- 2014-05-30 MainWestRdExt - Perhaps Pixie’s Parasol
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Nature Walk to Main Western Rd Extension on 30 May 2014 - Perhaps Pixie’s Parasol (Mycena interrupta)
- 2014-05-30 MainWestRdExt - Fallen log with Cordilyne in front & Cycad behind
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Nature Walk to Main Western Rd Extension on 30 May 2014 - Fallen log with Cordilyne in front & Cycad behind
- 2014-05-30 MainWestRdExt - Possibly a Cortinarius sp., a eucalypt mycorrhizal fungus
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Nature Walk to Main Western Rd Extension on 30 May 2014 - Possibly a Cortinarius sp., a eucalypt mycorrhizal fungus
- 2014-05-30 MainWestRdExt - Cycad
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Nature Walk to Main Western Rd Extension on 30 May 2014 - Cycad (Lepidozamia peroffskyana)
- 2014-05-30 MainWestRdExt - Madeira Winter Cherry
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Nature Walk to Main Western Rd Extension on 30 May 2014 - Madeira Winter Cherry (Solanum pseudocapsicum), a pan-tropical minor weed
- 2014-05-30 MainWestRdExt - Velcro & Croften Weeds
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Nature Walk to Main Western Rd Extension on 30 May 2014 - Velcro (Desmodium uncinatum) & Croften (Ageratina adenophora) Weeds
- 2014-05-30 MainWestRdExt - Flowers of Velcro Weed
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Nature Walk to Main Western Rd Extension on 30 May 2014 - Flowers of Velcro Weed
- 2014-05-30 MainWestRdExt - Pam-lily probably
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Nature Walk to Main Western Rd Extension on 30 May 2014 - Pam-lily probably (Cordilyne petiolaris)
- 2014-05-30 MainWestRdExt - Pam-lily probably
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Nature Walk to Main Western Rd Extension on 30 May 2014 - Pam-lily probably (Cordilyne petiolaris)
- 2014-05-30 MainWestRdExt - Why it’s called Velcro Weed
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Nature Walk to Main Western Rd Extension on 30 May 2014 - Why it’s called Velcro Weed – pods & leaves
- 2014-05-30 MainWestRdExt - Cockspur Thorn
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Nature Walk to Main Western Rd Extension on 30 May 2014 - Cockspur Thorn (Maclura cochinchinensis)
- 2014-05-30 MainWestRdExt
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- 2014-05-30 MainWestRdExt - Stinging Tree
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Nature Walk to Main Western Rd Extension on 30 May 2014 - Stinging Tree (Dendrocnide excelsa)
- 2014-05-30 MainWestRdExt
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- Description: Nature Walk to Main Western Rd Extension on 30 May 2014
Map
Entrance to the dirt road heading south from the bitumen at corner of Main Western Rd and Bartle Rd (on right at the corner if heading from North Tamborine past show-grounds). This is a quiet dead-end dirt road with some regeneration work with bird activity in early morning. There is also a cleared strip under power lines right through to where Main Western Road bitumen begins again at Whites Rd.
WARNING: GPS positioning technology and GPS device quality have accuracy variances so that tracks may appear to stray from the actual location by many metres. This may imply traversal of private properties in suburban areas. It is our policy not to enter private properties without permission and we trust that any tracks indicating same are solely due to those inaccuracies. Any user of these tracks should absolutely refrain from entering private property without permission.
Species
Plants List
Report by Elizabeth: The nature walk through the patch of forest on the main roads easement opposite the Showgrounds gave us a good opportunity to show newcomers not only most of the worst weeds on Tamborine Mountain, but also many good specimens of common native plants.
The weeds we saw were blue Morning Glory, the fleshy Madeira Vine, sticky Velcroe Weed, prickly Solanum, white sappy Moth Vine, hairy Tobacco Weed, Crofton Weed, bright orange-flowering Black-eyed Susan, and the attractive red and yellow flowers of the Exotic Ginger.
Among the native trees were Bleeding Heart Homolanthus nutans, Native Tamarind Diploglottis australis, Flame Tree Brachychiton acerifolius, Murrogun Cryptocarya microneura with its white mid-vein, Brittlewood Claoxylon australe, Brown Beech Pennantia cunninghamii with its pit-like domatia on lateral veins, Rosewood Dysoxylon fraserianum with its domatia under the main veins, Foambark Jagera psordorhus, a small Blue Quandong Elaeocarpus grandis, Scentless Rosewood Synoum glandulosum with its red tips, a beautiful 30m specimen of a Giant Stinging Tree Dendrocnide excelsa (so often the leaves of these trees are peppered with holes made by insects), Wild Quince Guioa semiglauca, Ribbonwood Euroschinus falcatus clearly showing the unequal-sided leaves, Brush Box Lophostemon confertus, the eucalypts Spotted Gum Eucalyptus maculata (unexpectedly) and the more common Eucalyptus salignus, and lastly the Zamia Lepidozamia peroffskyana.
There were a number of shrubs – Cordyline petiolaris, Callicarpa pedunculata, Coffee Bush Breynia oblongifolia, and the herbs or groundcovers – white-flowering Aneilema acuminatum, pretty pink Tripladenia cunninghamii, and blue Lobelia trigonocaulis, and numerous ferns, plus the vines Cissus hypoglauca, Cissus Antarctica, Scrambling Lily Geitonoplesium cymosum and Native Raspberry Rubus rosifolius.
Birds
| Common Name | Scientific Name |
| Spotted Pardalote | Pardalotus punctatus |
| Rainbow Lorikeet | Trichoglossus haematodus |
| Pied Currawong | Strepera graculina |
| Lewin's Honeyeater | Meliphaga lewinii |
| Yellow-Faced Honeyeater | Lichenostomus chrysops |
| Scaly-Breasted Lorikeet | Trichoglossus chlorolepidotus |
| Large-Billed Scrubwren | Sericornis magnirostris |
| Eastern Whipbird | Psophodes olivaceus |
| Striated Thornbill | Acanthiza lineata |
| Eastern Spinebill | Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris |
| Silvereye | Zosterops lateralis |
| White-Naped Honeyeater | Melithreptus lunatus |
| Pied (Grey) Fantail | Rhipidura albiscapa alisteri |
| Laughing Kookaburr | Dacelo novaeguineae |
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