2025
Month | Day | Monthly Meeting Speaker – topic | Day | Excursion Leader – topic | Day | Other Event |
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Feb | Fri 14th | John Walter (Malmsbury Landcare), “Our native pollinators – honey bees and beyond” | Sat 15th | 3pm. Tribute to Richard Piesse, Tea Rooms, Castlemaine Botanical Gardens. All welcome. | Mon 17th | Roadside Clean-up |
Mar | Fri 14th | AGM; Christine Kilmartin, “Castlemaine Landcare Group – early days, ongoing work and project visions” | Sat 15th | Christine Kilmartin. “A walk along Leanganook Track to view the CLG work to rehabilitate this riparian strip.” | ||
Apr | Fri 11th | Steve Williams “Life cycles of moths”. With a moth sheet survey during the evening. | Sat 12th | Red, white and blue mine. “Photographing flowers, grasses and insects for effective iNaturalist identification”. | Fri18th Fri25th | Good Friday ANZAC Day |
May | Fri 9th | Sat 10th | Mon 12th | Roadside clean-up | ||
Jun | Fri 13th | Sat 14th | Cathrine Harboe-Ree & Rosemary Turner. “Street trees of Castlemaine, part 2”. | |||
Jul | Fri 11th | Sat 12th | Fungi search. | |||
Aug | Fri 8th | Dr Linden Ashcroft, Bureau of Meteorology, “What will climate change bring to Castlemaine weather? “ | Sat 9th | Mon 11th | Roadside clean-up | |
Sept | Fri 12th | CFNC weekend, Wedderburn | Sat 13th– Sun 14h | CFNC weekend, Wedderburn | Weds 10, 24 | Wednesday Wildflower Wanders |
Oct | Fri 10th | Anna Murphy, Senior Threatened Species Officer, DCCEEW. “Saving plants from extinction”. | Sat 11th | Weds 8, 22 17-19 24-27 | Wednesday Wildflower Wanders Ballarat, Springtime SEANA Great Southern Bioblitz | |
Nov | Fri 14th | Margaret & Richard Alcorn, “Charting changes in bird populations”. Combined Birdlife Castlemaine & District meeting. | Sat 15th | Mon 17th | Roadside clean-up | |
Dec | Fri 12th | Members’ night | Tues 16th | 5pm. Picnic, Castlemaine Botanical Gardens | Dec 6, 7 | Challenge Bird Count |