Category Archives: Monthly Park Web News

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 →

Working Bee Reports Our Sunday, 3rd July working bee achieved very similar results to the June working bee.  267 plants went in just north of the Garie Street bridge in Blacks Walk on either side of the track.  The weather was … Continue reading →

Working Bee Report On Sunday, 5th June, ten participants did a great job planting 269  plants in several areas to the north of the Furness Park bridge.  Friend Geoff deserves a special mention for manning the pump and tirelessly carrying buckets of water … Continue reading →

Working Bee Report – the Saturday Experiment Seventeen participants planted 513 plants ranging from eucalypts to grasses on Saturday, 14th May.  Mary, our working bee coordinator, had to go home twice for more plants!   We planted up an area to … Continue reading →

Autumn Bird Count Report Our Autumn and Spring Bird Counts have been regular and much anticipated special events since 2012.  This year’s Autumn survey was conducted last Saturday morning (23/4) on a great day for bird-watching – except that the overcast conditions dulled … Continue reading →

Happy Easter! We trust all our Friends had a nice Easter – the school holidays, Easter and the start of the Aussie Rules football season all in alignment this year. Bird Survey Coming Up! Our 2016 Autumn Bird Survey is … Continue reading →

Kalang Pavilion Officially Opened 12/2/2016 The new pavilion at Kalang Oval was officially opened by the Mayor, Cr Daw, on 12th February, 2016.  The photo above shows the Mayor (Councillor Daw at right) with our current local ward councillors Andrew Munroe and Denise Massoud. … Continue reading →

Happy New Year! We wish all our Friends all the best for 2016! Our Projects for 2016 As advised in a “STOP PRESS” article in December’s news, we’ve been awarded a significant grant from Melbourne Water for two new revegetation … Continue reading →

Happy Holidays! We wish all our Friends and your families a safe and happy holiday period – and all the best for 2016! 2015 Highlights and Thanks!  Also, a big THANK YOU! to all our Friends who worked with us to make 2015 … Continue reading →

Melbourne Water Maintenance Melbourne Water’s woody weed removal work on the northern side of the creek between Main Street and the Laurel Grove bridge has been completed.  The main target was some Monterey Pines growing along the bank – there … Continue reading →