Greg Kerr surveys waterbirds Lake Hawdon North near Robe in SA Structure recently installed on the inflow creek at Stipiturus Conservation Park. A block was installed across the eroding drain to lift and redirect flows into the natural creek meander (yellow dashed line) while allowing med/high...
It's been a busy spring so far, with lots of activity underway, including lots of planting!- At Mt Burr Swamp we've had some nursery vollies planting out Gahnia clarkei at Mt Burr Swamp to sustain local rare butterflies while we are re-establishing riparian zone vegetation...
We've had many wonderful visitors to our reserves and out and about lately: Firstly (below top left), a group from Hamilton Field Naturalists Club and our SW volunteer group out at Walker Swamp for tree planting, but it was too wet & windy! NGT's Ayesha...
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...
Lots of fish action in Mildura this month! First up - about 1000 Olive Perchlet (also known as Agassiz's Glassfish) were released into a surrogate breeding dam on the 4th of June in Mildura, Victoria. This small native fish species is endangered in NSW, and...
Scott from NGT met up with local TAFE students studying conservation and ecosystem management to learn how to use fyke and seine nets to survey threatened small-bodied fish at the Ornamental Lake in Mildura. We detected Southern Purple-spotted Gudgeons in both seine net hauls and...
NGT's Tassie team Bec and Justine have been out and about at Long Point, Tasmania doing some water level monitoring in the saltmarsh. They saw some beautiful regenerating samphires (Salicornia species) - aren't the colours spectacular, and it sure looks muddy! Meet Vicki, who is in...
NGT's Senior Wetland Ecologist Ayesha Burdett shared photos from some wetland restoration events in Victoria this month. She and Lisa McIntyre (NGT Partnerships and Community Coordinator) attended a Farm Dam Field Day organised by Panyyabyr Landcare Group to talk about water quality and catchment health,...
Flame Sedge-skipper Southern Boobook Owl chick Brolgas at Mt Burr Swamp Swamp Daisy-bush (Olearia glandulosa) Swamp Mazus (Mazus pumilio) Southern Grass-dart Bryan snapped some cool critters and rare plants whilst out and about this month: The first two were during surveys of vegetation (The Claypans) inside a OneFortyOne forestry site, where he...
NGT's Bec Sheldon and Ben Taylor were lucky enough to work amongst some rather spectacular scenery in Tasmania recently, whilst undertaking some water level monitoring at Apsley Marshes. Access can be difficult here, but kayaks serve a dual purpose as useful floating gear holders. What...
