Subs due now 
A reminder that 2012 subs are due from 1 January - please keep your treasurer happy by paying now! 
Subs can be paid by cheque to the Club address, by Paypal (follow the links on our website 
www.tasfieldnats.org.au) or by EFT to the Club account BSB 067 102 A/c 2800 0476. 
Please identify your payment with your name and initial. 
Family $35 Single $30 Single Junior or Concession $25 
4 committee positions to fill 
Due to the retirement of four current committee members, the club will need to elect new committee 
members at the next AGM on 1 st March 2012. The positions are Secretary, Bulletin Editor and two 
general committee members. Ideally, one of the general committee members will be responsible for 
maintaining the club's website. The committee meets six times a year and the meetings are held on 
Thursday nights before the general meeting. Please volunteer for a position by contacting Michael 
Driessen (TFNC President). 
Cascades Track 
Amanda Thomson 
IJn a cool but beautiful and sunny morning on 
^"^8 th October, about 20 people including 
children and visitors met at the Cascade car park. 
Initially the track cut through a mudstone slope 
with Eucalyptus tenuiramis and E. obliqua 
downslope towards a gully. As the track continued 
the understorey became heathier with E. 
amygdalina present. We crossed an unnamed 
creek which joins Guy-Fawkes Creek in Golden 
Gully. A picturesque stone bridge constructed 
with an unsupported arch crossed the creek. It 
was dedicated to Peter Degraves (1778-1852) 
founder of Cascade Brewery in 1824. The track 
then wound its way up the hillside to the top of 
Old Farm Road where we stopped for morning tea 
before heading back to the car park along the 
road. 
TFNC members at the start of the Cascades Track. 
Photo: Michael Driessen 
Plants in flower included: native heath (Epacris 
impressa), golden pea ( Aotus ericoides), blue love 
creeper (Comesperma voluble), yellow dogwood 
(Pomederris elliptica), white flag iris (Diplarrena 
moraea) and the wattle Acacia vernicoflora ? In 
fine flower was candles ( Stackhousea monogyna). 
A number of orchids were present - the sun 
orchids (Thelymitra) not yet out and the mayflys 
(Acianthus caudatus) already finished. Orchids in 
flower were the bird orchid Chiloglottis 
triceratops), the dusky caladenia ( Caladenia 
fuscata) and the greenhoods: maroonhood 
(Pterostylis pedunculatus), black-stripe greenhood 
(Pterostylis melagramma) and green-lip 
greenhood ( Pterostylis stenochila). 
Many birds were seen or heard, they included the: 
forest raven, shining-bronze cuckoo, fantail 
cuckoo, kelp gull (tip nearby), grey fantail, striated 
pardalote, grey (clinking) currawong, green 
rosella, grey shrike-thrush, eastern spinebill, brush 
bronzewing pigeon, crescent honeyeater and a 
male golden whistler. Janet spotted a Tawny 
Frogmouth roosting in a tree! 
Grasshoppers found by Mike Driessen included: 
Tasmanian grasshopper ( Tasmaniacris 
tasmaniensis), eastern tassie hopper ( Russalpia 
albertisi), and pygmy grasshopper (Tetrigidae). 
Other observations included the brown tree frog, 
a large twiggy remnant bird's nest in the fork of a 
tree, mosses, ferns and an interesting slime mould 
Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club BULLETIN 345 January 2012 p2 
