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Planting Bee – Sunday, 21st August at the Main Street Bridge
The last stage of the Main Street Bridge Maintenance project is to plant around the new handrails including their side “flairs” and approaches to soften them and integrate them into the park. Time: 09:00 – midday. Morning tea provided at … Continue reading
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Park News – July, 2016
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
Park News – June, 2016
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
Planting Bee – Sunday, 3rd July
Our third working bee for this year is to be this coming Sunday (3rd July, 2016) morning in Blacks Walk on the north side of the Garie Street bridge starting at 9AM. We’ll mostly be planting with some weeding around native grasses if we have … Continue reading
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Planting Bee – Sunday, 5th June
Our second working bee for this year is to be this coming Sunday (5th June, 2016) morning in Furness Park on the north side of the bridge starting at 9AM. We’ll mostly be planting with a bit of weeding where necessary. We’d love to … Continue reading
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Park News – May, 2016
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
Planting Bee – Saturday, 14th May
Our first working bee for the year is this coming Saturday (14th May, 2016) morning at the end of Furness Street starting at 9AM. We’ll mostly be planting. Time: 09:00 – midday. Location: Enter the park at the end of Furness … Continue reading
Park News – April, 2016
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
Bird Count – Autumn, 2016
Results The results of our Autumn Bird Count conducted on Saturday 23rd April, 2016 are tabulated here Bird Count results – Autumn 2016 and a few shots of birds we found on the day are sprinkled through this report. There was a good turnout … Continue reading
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Park News – March, 2016
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
Frog Photo Scoop!
Despite there sometimes being an abundance of frog calls at the Waratah Wetlands, several Friends have complained that they’ve never ever seen a frog there! Sometimes it seems there must be a thousand frogs calling – but when you consider … Continue reading
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Park News – February, 2016
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
Kalang Oval Pavilion Officially Opened
Update April 2016: The external (unisex/disabled) toilet at the Kalang Pavilion has been opened as a public toilet on a trial basis for 12 months during daylight hours. This is the only public facility in the entire Blackburn Creeklands. It is … Continue reading
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Unusual Sighting
One of our friends has sent us this documentary evidence, captured on her mobile phone, of an unusual sighting in the park on Friday: In her words: On our morning walk we heard and enormous racket from rainbow lorikeets – … Continue reading
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More Main Street Bridge Maintenance [updated 8/4/2016]
Update 9/6/2016: Installation has commenced! Some of the posts for the new railings were installed on both sides of the bridge today – see below: Update 8/4/2016: Council has authorized the contractor to go ahead on the revised railing design … Continue reading
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What butterfly is that ?
We’ve added a new page to the website which might help you identify butterflies you see in the park. Please visit: https://blackburncreeklands.wordpress.com/fauna-and-flora/our-butterflies/ for details.
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New Whitehorse Cycling Strategy
We recently received the poster above from Council inviting community input into its new New Whitehorse Cycling Strategy. The Whitehorse Council Transport Team says: Whitehorse Council is preparing a new Cycling Strategy to guide education, infrastructure and advocacy actions over the … Continue reading
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