I and my neighbour (Dr. Janet Wollaston) visited the patch of large duck orchids just down the track where we live.
The duck orchids were still flowering and we found another 'patch' of orchids (in flower) west of the patch I reported (and photographed) on 26 October.
The two 'patches' of duck orchids were on the south side of the 'firebreak' between the BVSC 300 metre wide buffer strip (burnt in a çontrol burn' about 4 months ago) and the south boundary of Bournda NP. They may have been the result of the fact that the adjacent bush was recently burnt.
Yeah, Max and I went for a walk in there 2 or 3 weeks ago and saw a couple of flying ducks, but they were growing in an unburnt bit of "median strip" in the track, not in the burnt area. There was nothing much coming back in the burnt area except bracken at that time. But its also possible that smoke from the fire has encouraged the orchids to come up near the burn, rather than in it. I'm assuming this is where yours are, since you say south of the firebreak.
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