Category Archives: Park highlights this month

Easter Egg We trust all our Friends of the Creeklands enjoyed their Easter break including the school holidays for those still at school. In many cultures, the egg is a symbol of fertility and rebirth. More specifically, in the Christian … Continue reading →

Bunjil visits the Blackburn Creeklands For the peoples of the Kulin nation, including the local Wurundjeri people, Bunjil and Waa created the universe during the Dreaming – with a little help from their friends – some lesser spirit ancestors. Bunjil … Continue reading →

Who has been gekkering in our park ? What is gekkering ? If you turn up the sound on the video above you will hear odd sounds rather like a bird call – perhaps a distress or alarm call to … Continue reading →

Now that life is returning to sort-of normal after the festive season, kids going back to school and annual holidays over – we wish our Friends all the best for a happy and prosperous 2022! Unhappily, there’s still a fair … Continue reading →

Our Compliments of the Season! We wish all our Friends and your families a safe and happy holiday period – and all the best for 2022! What happened in 2021 ? The year 2021 proved to be another eventful year … Continue reading →

We’re Back! We are very pleased that our regular park activities are getting back to normal following Lockdowns #5 and #6. Our working bees have restarted and our usual October “Spring Bird Survey” was replaced by a Bird Walk hosted … Continue reading →

Wild Weather ! Our park was lucky to get off with relatively little damage compared to areas in our corridor nearby – particularly on the hill to the north of the park and along Pakenham Street where the wild weather … Continue reading →

September was quite a month in the Creeklands in both the fast and the slow lanes. We have had sudden heavy rains and a jolting earthquake – while our COVID-19 lockdown restrictions are being slowly eased – with schools soon … Continue reading →

Once again, we find ourselves in a long lockdown at this time of year. While the park suffers from being “over-loved” again, we’ve also had disturbing reports of vandalism, people forcing their way into revegetation areas (teenagers with parents!) and … Continue reading →

The last week of July seemed to show an uptick from our cold winter weather. It all seems to conform to Tim Entwisle’s idea that the traditional (European) four seasons in the southern half of Australia (summer, autumn, winter and spring) … Continue reading →

We were comparatively lucky in our area compared to locations further east, particularly the Dandenongs, in relation to tree losses and other storm damage during the month. We did lose a few mature trees and stags (dead trees retained for … Continue reading →

Community Working Bees At our first Community Working Bee for 18 months on Sunday, 2nd May, twenty adults and three kids enjoyed a great day’s planting along with some sorely needed weeding . Work was in the Billabong area in … Continue reading →

Happy Easter! We wish all our Friends a nice Easter break with the start of the school holidays, the promised pleasant autumn weather and the Easter festivities all in alignment. Autumn Fungi Autumn is always the best season to see … Continue reading →

Floral Emblem of Victoria The pink form of Common Heath, Epacris impressa, was proclaimed the floral emblem of Victoria in 1958. There is also a white form of the same species. According to VicFlora, it flowers all year, mainly April – … Continue reading →