Field Nats

Monthly Meeting and AGM:  Friday 10th March, 7.30 pm, Uniting Church Fellowship Room, Lyttleton St

Annual General Meeting: The 2023 AGM will be held before the usual monthly meeting observations and talk.  The AGM agenda will include the Annual Report for 2022, the Treasurer’s Report, and the election of office bearers and committee members for 2023. All positions on the committee will be open, so you are encouraged to consider […]

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Speaker: John Lewis “The Southern Australian Marine Flora – Diversity and Change”

Excursion: Saturday March 11th,1.30pm, “Tullaroop Reservoir”

Meet: at the Octopus (Duke St, opposite the Castle Motel) at 1.30pm sharp or at the Tullaroop Reservoir picnic ground at the dam wall at 2pm. Watch out for raptors as you drive across the Moolort Plains to the reservoir! After gathering at the picnic ground, we will take a short drive to where we

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Leaders: Rosemary and Peter Turner

Monthly Meeting:  Friday 10th February, 7.30 pm, Uniting Church Fellowship Room, Lyttleton St

Rescheduled from last October when floods prevented our speaker travelling here. Learn how to look after this unique and rare plant found only in our backyard. Georgie Custance, an ecologist from the Threatened Species Conservancy (TSC), will talk about a locally endemic plant, the Fryerstown Grevillea (Grevillea obtecta). Although locally common in small areas, it

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Speaker: Georgie Custance “Monitoring Fryerstown Grevillea, a threatened species in our region”

Excursion: Saturday 11th February, 9.00am “The Grevillea obtecta project, Fryers Ridge”

Rescheduled from last October when floods prevented our leader travelling here. Enjoy a morning walk in the bush to see some local populations of the Fryerstown Grevillea (Grevillea obtecta) as well as the many other native plants that are in this area. During the walk, Georgie will demonstrate how to use ProofSafe to record your

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  Leader: Georgie Custance

Monthly Meeting:  Friday 9th December, 7.30 pm, Uniting Church Fellowship Room, Lyttleton St

Your turn! A chance for you to share your interesting nature sightings and stories from the year. You can show photos, a video or a short power-point presentation, recite a poem or sing a song. An informal but informative and entertaining evening. Please email your photos to Euan Moore at calamanthus5@bigpond.com by noon on the

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Members Night!

Restoring the wonderful wetlands of northern Victoria

Newstead Landcare Group are hosting a special presentation by Damien Cook,Co-Director and Restoration Ecologist at Wetland Revival Trust. Wednesday 16 November 2022 from 7.30 – 8.30 pm followed by a cuppa at Newstead Community Centre, 9 Lyons St, Newstead All are welcome. Entry is by donation to Wetland Revival Trust to aid purchase of Wirra-Lo

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Hosted by Newstead Landcare Group

Excursion: Saturday 12th November, 1.30 pm
“Fryers Ridge”

It has been a wonderful season for the wildflowers in our area.  With Fryers Ridge being somewhat higher and cooler than other areas we explored during the September Wildflower Wanders, this walk will give us the chance to enjoy the later flowering species under the guidance of our expert member Richard Piesse.  Meet: 1.30 pm

Excursion: Saturday 12th November, 1.30 pm
“Fryers Ridge”
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Leader:  Richard Piesse

Monthly Meeting:  Friday 11th November, 7.30 pm, Uniting Church Chapel (note change of room for this month), Lyttleton St

Mycobacterium ulcerans is a bacterium causing ulcerative skin disease (Buruli ulcer) in humans and animals, mainly in tropical regions, particularly in West Africa. However, the organism was first isolated and described in Gippsland, Victoria, and became known here as Bairnsdale ulcer. Clinical disease continues to occur in some coastal regions as far west as Barwon

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Speaker: Dr Christina McCowan (University of Melbourne) “Mycobacterium ulcerans (Buruli ulcer) in our native mammals in the wild”