Monthly Meeting:  Friday 12th May, 7.30 pm, Uniting Church Fellowship Room, Lyttleton St

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Speaker: Lisa Cox “Coliban Water Biodiversity Strategy”

Lisa is an Environmental Specialist – Projects with Coliban Region Water.  She will explain how Coliban Water addresses its aims ‘to protect the upper section of the Coliban River and its long-term water supply, while boosting habitat connectivity, sustainable land use practices, and building cultural and lifestyle value across the region.’ The talk will follow …

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Roadside Clean-up: Monday 15th May, 9am

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Help keep our stretch of the Pyrenees Highway clean

Meet: 9am near Tait’s Decorative Iron, corner of Willy Milly Rd and Pyrenees Highway, Castlemaine.   Bring: Gloves, water, sturdy footwear. Garbage bags and safety vests supplied. Contact: Geoff Harris (mob 0418 392 183) if you can help with the clean-up.

“Fryerstown Grevillea search”: Saturday 20th May 1.30pm

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Leader: Euan Moore

Meet: at the Octopus (Duke St, opposite the Castle Motel) for a 1.30pm sharp departure. Bring: Sturdy walking shoes, water, afternoon tea. After a very successful search for the Fryerstown Grevillea (Grevillea obtecta) in the Fryers Ridge area last month, this month we will repeat our search in a section of Porcupine Ridge.  This Grevillea …

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Monthly Meeting:  Friday 14th April, 7.30 pm, Uniting Church Fellowship Room, Lyttleton St

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Speaker: Ben Kurek, “Diversity of our local huntsman spiders”

Ben is an amateur arachnologist and nature lover specialising in Sparassidae (Huntsman spiders) of Australia.  He is a member of the Entomological Society of Victoria and is their spider specialist. Ben is currently working on a field guide for huntsman spiders of Australia. His talk, delivered by zoom to a live audience at the Uniting …

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Excursion: Saturday April 15th,10.30am, “Autumn Orchids”

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Leader: Cathrine Harboe-Ree

Our April excursion will be a combined Castlemaine Field Naturalists Club and Australasian Native Orchid Society visit to several sites in the Maldon-Muckleford area in search of autumn orchids. Meet: Note 10.30am start. Instead of our usual meeting place, we will meet at in the Downes Rd car park adjacent to the Botanical Gardens playground. We plan …

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

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

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

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Leaders: Rosemary and Peter Turner

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

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

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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