Author Archives: John Mc

Spring Bird Survey Naturally, our Spring Bird Survey (21st October) was the highlight of the month in the park.   Julie’s photo above of a Grey Butcherbird (notice the hook at the end of its beak) reflects the weather – … Continue reading →

Sprinter and Sprummer One of the perks associated with being on our park’s Advisory Committee is that Whitehorse Council invites representatives from the parks and indigenous nurseries in the municipality to an annual function called the Parkland Community Forum.  Our contribution to … Continue reading →

Update on Last Month’s Pollution Events The Whitehorse Leader of 14th August carried an article about the serious diesel oil spill first reported early on Friday 28th July.  It identified the source of the spill as being a depot near … Continue reading →

Pollution Events The bad news for July was a series of water pollution events in our creek. Firstly, we believe there were two instances of house paint being dumped into a stormwater drain in Main Street on the 4th and … Continue reading →

Building on Success! Our second Working Bee for 2017 on Sunday, 11th June  was another success on a beautiful sunny winter’s morning – continuing in the moderately difficult planting situation between the Scout Hall and the bridge in Blacks Walk.   … Continue reading →

First 2017 Working Bee a Great Success! Our first Working Bee for 2017 on Saturday, 6th May was a great success having good attendance and 280 plants going in – in a moderately difficult planting situation between the Scout Hall and … Continue reading →

Bird Survey Report Our Autumn bird survey event was a success as usual – though a little more intimate than usual.  Numbers of attendees were down a little – we’re not sure why – possibly our date coinciding with the ANZAC virtual long … Continue reading →

 Bird Survey Coming Up! Keeping a look out in Kalang Park – Courtesy Ian Moodie Our 2017 Autumn Bird Survey is scheduled for a 07.30 AM start on Saturday, 22ndApril at the Scout Hall in Pakenham Street.  Our usual excellent Group Leaders, Pat and Ian have confirmed … Continue reading →

Blacks Walk Bridge Maintenance The planned maintenance of the bridge is well under way. The bridge deck has been replaced and reinforced but repainting the superstructure is still to be completed. Works in the Park around Laurel Grove North Council … Continue reading →

Creeklands Flora Our webmaster has finally gotten his act together towards gathering documentation and resources for our Flora – via a link from the Flora section of our Fauna and Flora page. There already being two excellent guides to the flora … Continue reading →

Our Compliments of the Season! The excellent spring rains have certainly livened up the park making it lush and showing off our grasses in particular.  Our photo shows a Christmas Bush in the foreground in a section of Kalang Park … Continue reading →

The Way We Were – Step by Step Based on an original idea from naturalist Alan Reid, Committee has maintained a series of photographs taken from the same point and in the same direction in the Creeklands since about 1990. … Continue reading →

Spring Bird Survey Naturally, our Spring Bird Survey (22/10) was the highlight of this month in the park.  The event was very successful considering the bleak weather forecast which came to fruition (mostly) after the event.  It was great to … Continue reading →

Park Perks! One of the perks associated with being on our park’s Advisory Committee is that Council invites representatives from the parks and both indigenous nurseries in the municipality to an annual function called the Parkland Community Forum. It is an … Continue reading →

Spring is in the Air! We’re sure you’ll agree there are signs of spring in the air.  We’ve already had one daily maximum over 20 degrees, many of the wattles are flowering and the first brood of ducklings (Pacific Black) has … Continue reading →