Month | Day | Monthly Meeting Speaker – topic | Day | Excursion Leader – topic | Day | Other event |
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Feb | Fri 11th | Euan Moore “Wild Taiwan” | Sat 12th | “Mt Alexander Cockatoo Rocks, Leanganook picnic ground” | Mon 14th | Roadside Clean-up |
Mar | Fri 11th | AGM; Geraldine & Geoff Harris “Exploring Outback Queensland’s National Parks” | Sat 12th | “Crusoe Reservoir – morning bird and plant walk” | 25-28th | Autumn SEANA – Portland FNC |
Apr | Fri 8th | Ian Higgins “The route ahead: from rarity to ….” | Sat 9th | Ian Higgins “Campbells Creek Landcare Restoration work” | Fri 15th | Good Friday |
May | Fri 13th | Peter Jacobs (Invasive Species Council) “Feral deer, managing and monitoring” | Sat 14th | “Seeding Victoria’s seed bank and the La Gerche walk, Creswick” | Mon 16th | Roadside clean-up |
Jun | Fri 10th | Dr Scarlett Howard (Deakin University) “Understanding the behaviours of native and introduced bees” | Sat 11th | Cassia Read “Moss Foray”, Clinkers Hill Reserve | ||
Jul | Fri 8th | Dr Melinda Waterman (Uni of Wollongong) “The Old-growth Moss Forests of Antarctica” | Sat 9th | Muckleford Forest and the Red, White and Blue mine | ||
Aug | Fri 12th | Tanya Loos “Window strike: when birds hit windows”. Combined meeting with Birdlife Castlemaine District | Sat 13th | Eureka Reef walk | Mon 15th | Roadside clean-up |
Sept | Fri 9th | Nick Carter (Deakin University) “Powerful Owl ecology – comparison of rural and forested environments” | Sat 10th | Julie Radford “Orchid search in the Castlemaine region” | 30th Sept – 2nd Oct; Weds 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th | Springtime SEANA, Peninsular FNC; Wednesday Wildflower Wanders |
Oct | Fri 14th | Georgie Custance (Threatened Species Conservancy) “Grevillea obtecta project and app” | Sat 15th | Georgie Custance “Grevillea obtecta project and app” | 28th-31st | Great Southern Bioblitz |
Nov | Fri 11th | Dr Christina McCowan (Uni Melbourne) “Mycobacterium ulcerans (Buruli ulcer) in our native mammals in the wild” | Sat 12th | TBA | Mon 14th | Roadside clean-up |
Dec | Fri 9th | Members’ night | Tues 13th | Picnic |