Grey teal welcome next generation

Grey teal welcome next generation

The grey teal recently had four babies and they are quite easily seen. Four is a good number of babies, but they can have up to 14. Their nests are built in tree hollows or on the ground and consist of decaying wood or leaf litter scraped up to form a bowl. The...
Grey teal welcome next generation

It’s not slime and it’s not mould

Slime moulds are interesting things. They are not animals, plants or fungi; they are single-celled organisms. Most of the time the individual organisms are off doing their own thing and we can’t see them. But when conditions are right they crowd together and the...
Grey teal welcome next generation

A few clicks could earn us $1,000

The Friends of Queens Park Bushland have the chance of a $1,000 grant, but we need your help to secure it. Bankwest list 20 groups each month and the 3 groups with the highest number of votes by the last Friday of the month receive $1,000. We are up for voting until...
Grey teal welcome next generation

Creepy crawly cockroaches

We have at least eleven species of cockroach in our bushland. It is likely that there are many more species we are yet to see. While most people will recoil at the mention of cockroaches, Perth has only two troublesome species and both of those are introduced. There...
Grey teal welcome next generation

Fungi are fantastic

              Now that we’ve had some good rainfall totals, fungi have popped up just about everywhere. Different fungi species prefer to grow in different places – some grow out of the ground, others on dead wood and...