Category Archives: Park highlights this month

One for your diaries – the date for our next bird survey has been set for Saturday 26th October, 2013.  We will meet at the Scout Hall in Pakenham Street at 07:30, for an 8AM SHARP start – (you have … Continue reading →

Our luck continued with yet another good day for our working bee – some would say it was unseasonally warm!  National Tree Day was celebrated with several tree and shrub plantings – though most of our morning was spent weeding … Continue reading →

In celebration of 2013 being the 30th Anniversary of the Blackburn Creeklands, the archives have been opened and several historical documents and artefacts can now been published on this website for all to see.  We are very grateful to the … Continue reading →

Once again, we were blessed with a lovely morning (albeit having a frosty start) for our community Working Bee on Sunday, 7th July 2013.  Several members of the local community augmented the “usual suspects” to make substantial further progress in rehabilitating one … Continue reading →

Contrary to the rumour circulating in the community, a bunyip has NOT washed up on the creek bank near the bowling club.  Rather, this is a pile of “Wandering Trad” seasoned with some Angled Onion weed removed from a nearby … Continue reading →

Our second community Working Bee for the year was conducted on Sunday, 16th June 2013.  Several welcome regulars from the community and committee members collaborated to further rehabilitate one of the more interesting parts of the park on a beautiful sunny winter’s … Continue reading →

Depending on how you measure it, 9th May 2013 is the 30th birthday of the Blackburn Creeklands park!  A celebration was held at the Scout Hall on the 17th November 2013 from 2 – 4PM.  There were displays, old photographs for viewing, afternoon … Continue reading →

As the result of an accident,  a car crashed into the creek from Laurel Grove North on Saturday night (27th April, 2013).  The car became partially submerged in the rocky pond adjacent to the recently vandalised bridge. Police and a … Continue reading →

Our first community Working Bee for the year was conducted on Sunday, 5th May 2013 – helping to rehabilitate one of the most neglected parts of the park on the land adjacent to 60 Main Street on the northern side of … Continue reading →

The easternmost part of the park along Heath Street up to Blackburn Road has been weeded and revegetated by the Monday weeding group.   Work consisted of hand-weeding  – mostly of a bad infestation of Panic Veldt grass – and “infill” … Continue reading →

It appears vandals attempted to burn the  Laurel Grove footbridge last Friday overnight.  Fortunately, no major structural damage seemed to have occurred after assessment by Council.  One can only hope the returned karma will be swift – perhaps mum or … Continue reading →

There have been several instances of illegal mulch dumping in the park recently – the latest being truckloads of waste dumped at the eastern end of the park off Heath Street. The photo below shows two of three illegal dumpings … Continue reading →

Several sightings of a Purple Swamphen (Porphryrio melanotus) have been reported.  This bird is a known resident of the Blackburn Lake Sanctuary but has not been seen in the Creeklands until this year.  It is a large waterhen with red bill and forehead … Continue reading →