I find this topic mildly amusing because I’m finding it hard to get motivated right now, not because it’s winter, but because it’s summer and everything is so dry, not to mention it’s hot. Of course, it doesn’t help that most of the trails I typically walk on are closed due to fires in the park (even many that are unaffected)… I think about the only thing that’s keeping me going out regularly is the fear that if I once let myself break the habit, I’ll never get back into it. :-) But observations are way down because there’s relatively little around.
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Hot and wildfires here too. But February is disa month.
Missed my turn this year.
We have a different Disa (D bracteata), albeit earlier in the season (spring rather than summer) - but here it’s a weed and people are going around actively pulling them out! Please tell me it’s not going extinct there? That would be a horrible irony.
Oh, and sorry to hear about your fires too - seems to have been a bad year all around.
http://redlist.sanbi.org/species.php?species=2759-185
That bracteata is okay.
But the Pride of Table Mountain red one gets poached. Our site shows less plants each year. They like damp, along streams, or shady cliffs. Someone, did some tidying along a dam wall on top of the mountain. Now. And casually ripped out the local population of disas.
Tragic - particularly if well-intended. As for poaching, that’s horrible in quite a different way.
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Winter is a toughie where I live because when I go to work, it’s dark. When I get back from work, it’s dark. I’ll get a few stray photos of raccoons and invasive plants, and that’s about it.
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