NGT Out and about – Photos from the field in July

At Mount Vandyke Restoration Reserve John photographed Tom and Andy carefully spot spraying Patterson’s Curse after the burn and direct seeding works. They were also lucky enough to find a beautiful nest of plovers eggs! Isn’t the patterning amazing?

Last month Angela our NGT nursery coordinator had a winter plant sale. Volunteer Jaz Norris was photographing a Correa reflexa in the nursery recently when this Eastern Spinebill came and landed on it! The Spinebill has been a regular visitor to the nursery recently, feeding on the winter flowers of the correas, but it surprised Bryan and Angela on Tuesday last week by feeding from the potted Kennedia prostrata (running postman). Thanks to all the people who visited the nursery for the plant sale, there were definitely some native plant enthusiasts about, it was a very successful day.  (“PS I can hear the Spinebill outside as I write this”, Angela)

Here’s NGT’s Lachlan Farrington, sharing some of NGT’s work at the recent Serra Terror event in the Grampians. The Serra Terror event is held every June long weekend and is an endurance event where participants trek/run/scramble 85km through the Grampians National Park.

Following on from last month’s photos of the construction of a new Freshwater Catfish surrogate breeding dam to breed native catfish for translocation purposes, at North West Aquaculture near Mildura, NGT’s Scott Huntley sent these photos of the Freshwater Catfish entering their new temporary home before they will be released into the wild.

NGT’s Jonathan Tuck also snapped this gorgeous picture during Orange-bellied Parrot surveys, in the dunes surrounding Swan Lake in South West Vic.