… with a taste for garlic. Even the honeyeaters are part-Italian around here!
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Category Archives: Nature and Environment
Saturday 4th March 2017
9.00am – 3.00pm
Corner of High & Forest Streets, Woodend
FREE ENTRY
The Macedon Ranges Sustainable Living Festival is located in the scenic Macedon Ranges, and is one of the region’s most popular and important events. The festival attracts strong support from businesses, community groups and government representatives and is hosted by the local NFP Macedon Ranges Sustainability Group (MRSG). The festival is now in its 8th year, and showcases ideas, products, and practical solutions to inspire visitors to enjoy living more sustainably.
For the first time the Macedon Ranges Sustainable Living Festival will be run in conjunction with the Woodend Community Farmers’ Market, another established initiative of the MRSG. This well-loved event draws patrons from all over the Macedon Ranges and beyond, who come to revel in the relaxed country atmosphere and stock their larders with mountains of high quality, local produce.
The take-home message from this is, as the real-estate people say, “build it and they will come”. Nest boxes work, and provide valuable habitat. Natural hollows take so long to form, so it is worthwhile to build the odd little house for our marsupial and avian friends. This nest box has been up several years now, but within a month of installation, it had been occupied by gliders.
I captured this infra-red footage of a brush-tailed phascogale and a sugar glider visiting the same nest box on my property last weekend…
First the phascogale…
Now the glider, on the previous night…
I don’t know what was going on there: was the phascogale preying on the glider’s young?
Please restrict your contributions to items that can be completely consumed by fire and will not produce toxic fumes.
What you have done is very irresponsible. Use your tip tickets. Now go and pick it up and do the right thing. If anyone sees you picking it up, just say, “Oh, I realised it wouldn’t burn, so I thought I should just take it down the tip”. Then you will be a hero.
”Our local, Loddon River Powerful Owls have raised two youngsters again this season. Last year was a mystery – the birds were about but no young were seen. We are so lucky to have this incredible predator breeding successfully so close to town. The possums must be running scared at the moment!”
See photos at Geoff Park’s Natural Newstead blog: http://geoffpark.wordpress.com/
It’s not the brief of yandoit.net to advertise for Aldi, but this may be of interest to wildlife-lovers. Aldi is offering a motion-sensing wildlife camera with infra-red LED lighting for night use – might just catch that elusive phascogale: $129 on special from 10th September.
