- I received an email from a cyclist who asked "I have no idea who to contact hoping you can get DSE or Council to barricade and remove tree just west of Burke Road".
I contacted DSE but by the time they got there to check on it, it had been moved off the path. City of Boroondara then arranged for the debris to be moved further back from the track. - One of the mysteriously appearing possum boxes has fallen off the tree and I will re-affix it soon. I didn't have a ladder when I found it.
MICROBATS
There were nine microbats in 1 tube on 25 February. All were caught and assessed (none escaped). All were Gould's Wattled bats, 8 females and 1 male. Seven of the nine assessed, were banded and all were from Burke Rd. Reserve. It is becoming clear that the Burke Rd. bats are a totally different colony to the Wilson Reserve bats.
In January eight people attended the Friday work day and weeded more of the 2008 area and the 2011 RMIT area. Two attended the Sunday work day, a hot day that was due to turn into rain. One of the RMIT students who had collected seeds from the area brought along five of the resulting river reds and these were planted into his plot.
OTHER WORK
After successfully poisoning a weed tree during the RMIT 2011 plantings, I was inspired to work on about 50 hawthorn bushes in the 2008/9 area. I have also slashed a lot of blackberries in the 2013 area and along the golf course fence.
THE NEXT COMMUNITY WORK DAYS
FRIDAY 9 MARCH 2012
9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
&
SUNDAY 25 MARCH 2012
10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Work planned for the March workdays are weeding in the 2008 and 2012 RMIT areas.
Stanley Barker,
Burke Rd. Billabong Committee of Management.
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