Author: Jonathan Tuck

26 Jul Look who’s been hanging around our Long Swamp restoration site! – Another record of an Australasian Bittern

Posted at 09:12h in Discovery Bay, Long Swamp, Long Swamp Restoration, News, Photography, Wetland Restoration by Jonathan Tuck

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[caption id="attachment_34329" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Australasian Bittern near Nobles Rocks[/caption] This curious and nationally endangered Australasian Bittern (Botaurus poiciloptilus) was snapped on our wildlife camera during NGT’s Long Swamp restoration works near Nobles Rocks. The works are funded by a Biodiversity Response Planning grant from the Victorian...

26 Jul NGT bushcare crew tackles a sandhill challenge

Posted at 09:09h in Bushcare, Discovery Bay, News, Threatened Orchids, Weeds by Jonathan Tuck

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NGT staff have been busy with a range of bushcare projects this autumn and winter. In one of these, the Glenelg Hopkins CMA called us in to work with Parks Victoria on woody weed removal at a remote spot in the Discovery Bay dune system. The...

07 Jun Photo of the week – Sunset at Lake Moniboeng, Vic

Posted at 12:14h in News, Photo of the Week by Jonathan Tuck

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Lake Moniboeng (or 'Momboeng') sits behind the sand dunes of Discovery Bay along the south-west Victorian coast and forms an important part of the Glenelg Estuary and Long Swamp Ramsar site. It's not far from NGT's Long Swamp restoration project near Nobles Rocks. NGT has...

07 Jun Grampians Triodia – revisited

Posted at 11:53h in News by Jonathan Tuck

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Mark's post describing spinifex (Triodia sp.) in the Grampians caught the attention of a few readers. Phil Robertson and Greg Müller responded to the post, also recently seeing Triodia in the Grampians with a student group. Phil wrote that they found: “...

19 Dec Photo of the week – A Christmas beetle battle, Rennick, Vic

Posted at 12:04h in News, Photo of the Week by Jonathan Tuck

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Christmas in Australia often means Christmas beetles, and a bunch of hungry Christmas beetles means a Christmas battle! Christmas beetles are from the scarab beetle family, with a various species of different colours found around Australia. These green ones are likely to be from the genus Diphucephala...

27 Nov Tiptoe through the Themeda… notes from a grassland restoration day at Woorndoo

Posted at 22:05h in News by Jonathan Tuck

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Last week, at the tail-end of peak grassland blooms, Greg, Sheryl and myself got along to Woorndoo on the Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP) for a grassland restoration info day. The grasslands of the VVP have been almost totally cleared due to their suitability for agriculture, and...

27 Nov Photo of the week – Paper Daisies on the Major Mitchell Plateau, Grampians NP

Posted at 21:59h in News, Photo of the Week by Jonathan Tuck

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Toward the end of spring, as the wildflowers are fading out on the plains, they can still be in full swing up on the cooler and moister hills. At about 900m elevation on the Major Mitchell Plateau last weekend we came across this mass flowering...

10 Oct Photo of the week: Aurora bluetail (Ischnura aurora)

Posted at 11:26h in News, Photo of the Week by Jonathan Tuck

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Photographing Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) can be a challenge at the best of times. Your best chance at seeing a range of species is in and around wetlands, and while you wade gently through the shallows, gripping your fancy camera as you try to sneak...

13 Sep Now you see it, now you don’t – Photo of the week: Marbled Gecko (Christinus marmoratus)

Posted at 01:47h in News, Photo of the Week by Jonathan Tuck

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Now you see it… This little Marbled Gecko (Christinus marmoratus) was found during monitoring of a roofing-tile grid in the Wimmera area. If you get close to one, you can pick it apart from most other geckos in the region by the large pads on the...

20 Apr Photo of the week – Underwater at Ewens Ponds, SA

Posted at 01:30h in News, Photo of the Week by Jonathan Tuck

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Ewens Ponds is a true underwater garden and one of the aquatic highlights of South East SA. This karst rising-spring system pushes incredibly clear water through a linked chain of three sinkholes, before joining Eight Mile Creek to terminate at the ocean about 2km south. The...

Author: Jonathan Tuck

26 Jul Look who’s been hanging around our Long Swamp restoration site! – Another record of an Australasian Bittern

26 Jul NGT bushcare crew tackles a sandhill challenge

07 Jun Photo of the week – Sunset at Lake Moniboeng, Vic

07 Jun Grampians Triodia – revisited

19 Dec Photo of the week – A Christmas beetle battle, Rennick, Vic

27 Nov Tiptoe through the Themeda… notes from a grassland restoration day at Woorndoo

27 Nov Photo of the week – Paper Daisies on the Major Mitchell Plateau, Grampians NP

10 Oct Photo of the week: Aurora bluetail (Ischnura aurora)

13 Sep Now you see it, now you don’t – Photo of the week: Marbled Gecko (Christinus marmoratus)

20 Apr Photo of the week – Underwater at Ewens Ponds, SA

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