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Bird Week Walk at Cheltenham Park

Cheltenham Park Flora and Fauna Reserve is a significant area of remnant indigenous vegetation, including some orchids. It's home for wildlife including several species of microbats and birds, and it's part of over 90ha of green space together with the adjoining golf courses. It has been a botanical park since 1951 and the Friends group and Bayside council have worked to enhance the vegetation and have conducted several controlled burns to encourage local species to germinate and grow and to minimise weeds.

Join Friends of Native Wildlife to celebrate National Bird Week and explore the park looking for birds.

Enter from Park Road, meet near the playground.

Please bring binoculars if you have them, sunscreen, insect repellent and water. Please wear good shoes, hat and sunglasses.

Free for FoNW members.

Sat 26 Oct 2024 9:00am to 10:30am
Cheltenham Park Flora and Fauna Reserve, CHELTENHAM VIC
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The Little Wattlebird

Little Wattlebirds are the first to wake and last to roost in our neighbourhood. Their unique range of calls are varied, loud and constant, with some of the stranger, harsh grating noises very unbirdlike. A Japanese visitor enquired about the strange noisy animals that woke him on his first morning in Australia. Upon being shown a Little Wattlebird in full voice he could not believe a bird, especially one that small, was responsible.

Frogs are back!

Our Frog Watch in Sandringham Golf Course and some other locations was loud, the busiest for the year.

6 to 8 brown tree frogs
20+ spotted marsh frogs
10+ common froglets
20+ eastern banjo frogs (pobblebonks)

Sign up for next month's Frog Watch. Limited numbers for these events.

Eastern Banjo Frog (Pobblebonk)

Out of the Woodwork

Woodworkers

 

Rob was overwhelmed by the support when a call went out on our member newsletter.

There was an immediate response to help make a large number of bird boxes to support an order from a group wishing to enhance habitat in people’s gardens. We had more offers of time and talent than boxes pre-cut ready to assemble and paint.

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