Through our work we get to experience some interesting and unusual things. I had the pleasure (or not depending on how you look at it) to stumble across a red-bellied black snake and a brown snake locked in battle (see footage here, note 25MB). I would have to give...
Last Thursday’s arrival count marked the end of the Middle Island Little Penguin breeding season and arrival counts. Nineteen Little Penguins were counted, continuing the downward trend of the last few arrival count numbers and indicating the start of the annual moult. This was confirmed...
The dry weather and the small breach we made in the Phase 1 trial structure a couple of weeks ago are working together nicely - with the channel at Nobles Rocks drying down rapidly, which should (subject to the weather continuing to do the right...
Like many features in our region, Nobles Rocks are named after a past lessee of a nearby parcel of land; a man with an unusual but memorable name - Noble Liddle. Noble was born on the 30th of Aug 1856 (one of several children to his...
This week's photo is an eastern bearded dragon (Pogona barbata), taken on the Discovery Bay Coast adjacent to Long Swamp, while hiking to White Sands. If you haven't done this portion of the Great South West Walk, be sure to add it to your list - you...
With the time fast approaching for us to do the site preparation works required to get the third phase of the restoration trial at Nobles Rocks underway, it was time for another site visit last week. The good news is that despite a very dry 6...
The latest edition of Wetlands Australia magazine was released to coincide with World Wetlands Day 2015. You can visit the Australia Government website for the edition here. This time around, NGT managed to get a couple of good news stories about our work published - you can download a pdf...
January 15-17th, 2015 A party of nine made the trek to Eaglehawk Waterhole for a two night working bee campout. On the first night while the weather was calm the crew went out spotlighting for rabbits (out on the sandy hills) throughout the property. Over 25 were seen out...
Late last year, Lachie and I took part in a wetland field day organised by the Hamilton - Coleraine Railway Line Landcare Group. A local journalist who attended the day, Katrina Weatherly, wrote a really nice article about the day that appeared in the December...
In a previous blog, I wrote about the recent Yarra pygmy perch releases we undertook out at the newly restored Pick Swamp, situated within the Piccaninnie Ponds Coastal Wetland (PPCW) complex. To refresh your memory, the fish releases took place in last October and November...
