After this beautiful rain the forest will be refreshed. Come for a quick morning walk (Sunday 4th October) and check out the wildflowers – but don’t forget to put your clock forward first thing!! We will meet at 10am on Sinclair’s Lane.

SUNDAY 4th OCTOBER, 10am, WILDFLOWER WALK. The wildflowers are out and we are having our annual wildflower walk in the forest. Meet on Sinclairs Lane (before the train line). Here is a map to help you. Every walker gets a free copy of the new butterfly guide.

Thanks to everyone who came out to take part in the supplementary planting of the 2021 habitat corridor. It’s doing very well and we are looking forward to finding a new property to plant a corridor on in the coming years.

As mentioned, the small Landcare planting is happening in the habitat corridor on Sunday. It starts at 10am and we’ll stop at midday for a vegan BBQ. Come and see how it’s grown after five years, and what is needed to keep it going. You’ll find us on the Muckleford School Road, near the Muckleford Bush Reserve.

If anyone you know has a potential east/west corridor of this size, we’d love to plan for another large connectivity project. Bring them along, let us know.

Let’s get together and do a small planting on
Sunday 27th September, 10am to 12 noon
Muckleford School Road

We received 100 plants from Connecting Country, which we are using to address specific gaps in the habitat corridor established in 2021. Let’s get together to plant, to see how the 3,000 plants are doing in the corridor, learn about effective planting techniques, and enjoy a vegan BBQ.

Please RSVP to Beth via email or phone Beth on 0431219980

Here are three dates for your diaries. Let’s get together, get out in the sunshine, and do some activities with Muckleford Landcare:

1. Small planting activity at the habitat corridor on the Muckleford School Road: going over good planting techniques (the three ‘ps’), and adding some extra plants – Sunday 27th September, 10am-12 noon
2. Wildflower walk: this year is going to be good! – Sunday 4th October, 10am-12 noon
3. Dams workshop: learn from experts on how to make major or minor alterations to dams for both wildlife and for better land management – Sunday 25th October 10am-12 noon

Join us at the Walmer South Nature Conservation Reserve
this Sunday 31st May at 10am for our annual nest box monitoring.

The reserve is on the Muckleford-Walmer Road (you will see the banner and cars). Please wear long pants and good walking shoes, bring your own water. It will be cold and dreary but we will warm up with our vigorous walking over a couple of hours.

After the monitoring we will be having a vegetarian BBQ. Please RSVP to the secretary, Beth Mellick.

SUNDAY 31ST MAY 2026, 10am to 12 noon
Walmer South Nature Conservation Reserve
Muckleford-Walmer Road

Join one of the two teams of monitors for our annual nest box monitoring program. We are monitoring fauna boxes, particularly looking at the prevalence of Brush-tailed phascogales.

If our equipment doesn’t fail us, we will monitor 74 boxes in two hours in our two teams. It’s a good workout as we walk a great deal- you’ll need covered shoes, long pants, and your own water.

Committee member Chris is planning a vegetarian BBQ after our monitoring, and you are welcome to join us. RSVP to the club secretary, Beth Mellick

Tickets are available now for a fantastic lineup of events as part of the Castlemaine State Festival. Engage in workshops and insightful talks about birds that you may find interesting, and you can purchase all tickets here – https://castlemainefestival.com.au/event/life-with-birds-workshops-walks/2026-03-21/

Will you be involved in our next habitat restoration project? We are looking for people who want to plant, to restore, to protect native habitat, particularly if there are habitat ‘gaps’ on your property.

Fill in the Expression of Interest form here.

Following on from our AGM and Committee Meeting, we are planning for a habitat connectivity project next year.

We are looking for landholders who are interested in a planting project. It could be on your property, your neighbour’s property, or someone you know who would like to participate.

To design a strategic restoration project, we can consider a few options:

-protecting or enhancing remnant riparian vegetation
-expanding or introducing riparian vegetation
-introducing habitat corridors across paddocks
-linking habitat corridors through more than one property
-linking habitat corridors to bushland

Here is the Expression of Interest form

Please email the EOI to us (or email if you can’t print and scan the form)

We also welcome back the committee who were voted in again:

-President: Neville Cooper
-Vice President: Richard Mann
-Secretary: Beth Mellick
-Treasurer: Eleanor Wright
-Ordinary Committee Members: Chris Mackenzie, Michael Billington, Brona Murray, David Mallard, Andrew Brown

MCLG 2025 AGM and November Committee Meeting Minutes