Lots to do today so we wasted no time to go and chat in the office and headed straight down to the arboretum to install the modified steps into the bird hide. This should make it a little more user friendly for the not so agile bird watchers. Surprise to say the least that the […]

The first really cold day of the season with a biting wind. Good thing though that it put a stop to the horse flies and that one needs to keep working to stay warm. The aim was to clear the track behind the toilet on the main picnic site of blue gum branches and, even

Sunday was the morning for the trail run. Sheena had come out and marked the route and about thirty runners got their instructions and did either the 9km or the 5km loop. We had given strict instruction to include part of the Nymph trail past the Lilly Pond to get more feet on that trail

It so happened that this weekend we had both the Fovs monthly meeting and the Free Spirit trail training run so we took the opportunity to get some feet on the new trail and get some feedback on it. Saturday we started the walk from the office and took the southern section towards the Forest

After the usual morning tasks such as hacking and looking after the nursery we went and planted some more indigenous trees to replace the pines. Jenny has donated a lot of trees for that purpose and, if they all take, there will be quite a forest there in the future. Rob set about digging some

It was still necessary to do some more work on the Nymph trail and try to convince Sisanie (we have always called him Pottaman but apparently that was wrong) to mow the remaining sections. While on the trail we noticed the Dodda was flowering. We also continued cleaning the pine tree up.

As promised I took a few pics of the bird hide. Still a work in progress by the looks of it as Neil has added a curtain to block out the backlight from the door. It is certainly lovely to sit there and enjoy the view even if you are not a birder like myself

I see it is nearly a month ago since I last blogged, since then quite a few things have happened. Not least of those is the building of a bird hide at the edge of the Arboretum. I’m ashamed that I have not yet taken a photo of the structure, an omission which will surely

Wednesday was a typical bergwind day so we found it more advisable to go the day after. This turned out to be a very good decision as it was ideal for working. Armed with the brush cutter sporting a brand new blade we tackled the section from the power line to the Lilly Pond with

At our last group meeting we started on the Nymph trail which is really an extension of the Forest Walk. As it turned out we discovered that the Forest Walk originally was a bit longer so we started clearing that bit first. It was difficult to find the original path as it was very overgrown