GWANGEL MORRON – season of honeybees
Mid March to early June
ACTIVITY CALENDAR
Please note some changes of dates from the summer newsletter.
April 5 Sunday: Park Heritage Day at Brim Springs See inside for more information.
April 4 – 9 Mt William Creek walk. See last issue or the website www.platypus.org.au for more information. You can walk all the way from Kalymna Falls to Dadswells Bridge, or just one or two days. Register with Victoria on 5358 4410 or 0409 556 526.
May 9 Saturday: Celebration of 25 years of our Friends’ Group. Parks Victoria will host a dinner and present us with a digital photo frame. See inside for more details.
This day was to have been a working bee, now postponed to June 28.
June 27 Saturday 10 am: Red Gum Walk working bee. Spraying weeds, installing the new signs etc. See inside for more on the RGW. Contact person: Margo: 5356 4524.
July 18 Saturday 10 am: Fungi Frolic. Where? Somewhere in the Zumsteins area, to be decided according to rainfall. Contact Ewen: 5383 6294
Also of interest: Grampians Fire and Fauna Monitoring Victorian National Parks Association’s NatureWatch programme. Members of FOGG are invited to join the monitoring work. It would be great if we could join in with the visitors to look at our small mammals and birds. (I have been out on several of the previous small mammal surveys and they have been very enjoyable indeed. Ed)
“2009 is set to be an exciting year for NatureWatch. We are running a new project working with Deakin University School of Life and Environmental Sciences and Parks Victoria to carry out monitoring of small mammals in the Grampians National Park. There is also potential bird monitoring opportunities for those who have very good bird identification skills. This monitoring will run in May and June/July and then again in Spring.”
Monitoring Dates (including full training):
• Monday 18th-Thurs 21st May,
• Thurs 21st – Sun 24th May,
• Thurs 28th-Sun 31st May,
• Mon 29th June-Thurs 2nd July
Accommodation costs apply. Bookings are essential. Further questions or for a booking form contact Caitlin Griffith: 03 9347 5188 or email