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Monthly General Meeting, Friday 14th November, 2025 at 7.30pm

Uniting Church Chapel, Lyttleton St. With backgrounds in computer programming and a passion for recording bird observations, Richard and Margaret Alcorn developed the world’s first on-line bird atlassing system called Eremaea Birds, launched in 2003. This proved very successful and after 10 years it was merged with eBird, a global database managed by the Cornell […]

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Speaker: Richard Alcorn (Geelong Field Naturalists Club), "eBird Data Explorations". Combined meeting with Birdlife Castlemaine District.

Excursion: Saturday 15th November, 2025 at 9.30am, “Bird and wildflower walk”, Maldon Historic Reserve

Visiting Geelong Field Naturalists Richard and Margaret Alcorn will join us for a walk along Sinclair’s Lane and down the track alongside the Maldon railway line to the trestle bridge.  A morning walk to favour bird sightings. This is an excellent area for a wide diversity of bird species and a chance to enjoy some

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Leader: Euan Moore

Roadside Clean-up: Monday 17th November, 2025 at 9am

Join us for the last of our four checks this year of a section of the Pyrenees Highway, West of Castlemaine from the top of McKenzie Hill to Woodmans Road. Many hands make light work as we enjoy a pleasant walk along some interesting roadside bush and do our bit for the community.  Meet: 9am

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Help keep our stretch of the Pyrenees Highway clean!

The Great Southern Bioblitz 2025 Starts Tonight!

At midnight tonight, local time, the general public around the Southern Hemisphere will join scientists for a four day intensive data collection event to gather critical information needed by scientists to better understand biodiversity, namely the hugely complex intertwined ecosystems of plants, creatures and other life forms, and the roles each of them play in

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Join the fun - Observe, Photograph, Identify

Wednesday Wildflower Wander, 22nd October 2025 at 4pm, Walmer State Forest

Our fourth and final September/October late afternoon wander to explore our beautiful local wildflower areas will be on Wednesday 22nd October in the Walmer State Forest.  A chance to see the rare Goldfields Grevillea as well as many other treasures.  Meet: In the Car Park north of the Railway Goods Shed in Kennedy St, ready

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Leader: Geraldine Harris

Great Southern BioBlitz, 24-27 October, 2025

We’re now well into spring and so wonderful to see the new growth and increasing activity in bushlands and gardens after so many months of challenging conditions. Trees, shrubs and other understorey plants are putting out new leaves and foliage, and canopies are becoming denser. Birds are calling and nesting. Frogs are croaking. Thankfully insects

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Are you ready? Your chance to make a difference!

Wednesday Wildflower Wander, 8th October 4pm, 2025, Sinclairs Lane, Muckleford

Our Wednesday Wildflower Wanders will continue this week with a visit to the Muckleford Forest.  In addition to a magnificent show of different wildflowers including several orchids, we hope to see the rare Grevillea micrantha. Meet: in the Car Park north of the Railway Goods Shed in Kennedy St ready to car-pool and leave at

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Leaders: Judy and Philip Hopley

Monthly Meeting:  Friday 10th October 2025, 7.30pm, Uniting Church Hall Lyttleton St., Castlemaine

Drawing on a biography she is translating, club member Cathrine Harboe-Ree will talk about the extraordinary efforts the Norwegian field naturalist and polar explorer Johan Koren made to study fauna in north-eastern Siberia in the years 1909-1919. Koren survived shipwrecks and other maritime disasters, winters as cold as minus 65 Celsius, frostbite and isolation. He

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Speaker: Cathrine Harboe-Ree “A field naturalist in Siberia”

Excursion: Saturday 11th October 2025, 1.30pm,“Creating a wetland environment”, Chewton.

The Mount Alexander region is generally quite dry, but Chewton residents Mikael and Helle Hirsch have transformed a dry, weedy paddock of about one hectare into a biodiverse wetland in a remarkably short period of time. Drawing on the expertise of local ecologist Karl Just and others, and making use of a natural spring supplemented

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Leader: Cathrine Harboe-Ree