2023

MonthDayMonthly Meeting
Speaker – topic
DayExcursion
Leader – topic
DayOther Event
FebFri 10thGeorgie Custance (Threatened Species Conservancy), “Grevillea obtecta project and app”Sat 11thGeorgie Custance, “Grevillea obtecta project and app”Mon 13thRoadside Clean-up
MarFri 10thAGM; John Lewis (Marine Biologist) “The Southern Australian Marine Flora – Diversity and Change”Sat 11thRosemary & Peter Turner, “Tullaroop Reservoir – birds, plants and history walk”
AprFri 14thBen Kurek (Entomological Society of Victoria), “Diversity of our local huntsman spiders”Sat 15thCathrine Harboe-Ree and David Elliott, “Smith’s Reef, early orchids and other wildflowers”. Combined trip with ANOS.Fri 7th

28-30th
Good Friday

Autumn SEANA – Port Campbell, hosted by Timboon FNC
MayFri 12thLisa Cox, “Coliban Water’s biodiversity program”Sat 13th

Sat 20th
“Fungi & mosses on the Mount”

Grevillea obtecta search
Mon 15th

Roadside clean-up
JunFri 9thLouise Saunders, “Botanical art – increasing environmental awareness”Sat 10thKylie McLennan (Coliban Water), “McCay Reservoir”  
JulFri 14thMatt West (Uni Melb Zoology), “Protecting frogs from the chytrid fungus”Sat 15thMaldon Historic Reserve – flora surveys  
AugFri 11thTracy Lyten and Fiona Jackson (Skylos Ecology),”The Role of Detection Dogs in Conservation”Sat 12thWildflower walk in the Whipstick, Greater Bendigo National Park
SeptFri 8thJane Rusden “Birding in SA Desert Country”, combined meeting with Birdlife Castlemaine & DistrictSat 9th
Sun 10th
pm Roy Pails, “Wildlife Sanctuary, Ballarat”.
am Emily Noble, “Orchid and bird walk, Clarkesdale Bird Sanctuary”.
WedsWednesday Wildflower Wanders: Sept 6th Kalimna Park
OctFri 13thKailee Savoia (Parks Vic, Gariwerd) “Grampians/Gariwerd Ark – Landscape scale predator control”.Sat 14thBev Phillips (Maldon Urban Landcare) “Pre-1852 Eucalypts around Maldon – their importance and protection”20th-23rdSpringtime SEANA – Yarram,
Latrobe/Sale FNCs
NovFri 10thSophie Bickford (Central Victorian Biolinks Alliance), “Landscape Restoration”.Sat 11thIan Higgins “Remnant vegetation”. Excursion to a Trust for Nature property, near Campbelltown.Mon 13th

24th-27th
Roadside clean-up


Great Southern Bioblitz
DecFri 8thMembers’ nightTues 12thPicnic  

Previous Calendars: 2022