by admin | Jul 26, 2013 | News
Although it is not yet spring, the wildflowers have started blooming in the bushland. The most noticeable is the Hibbertia hypericoides, commonly called buttercups. It was called buttercups because it reminded the early explorers of the yellow buttercups in their...
by admin | Jul 2, 2013 | News
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...
by admin | Jun 15, 2013 | News
During May 2013 we took down a nest box for repairs and found the bottom of the box covered in bones and parts of invertebrates. It looks like a bird has been roosting in the nest box and regurgitating the undigestible parts of its meals. We are now in the process of...
by admin | May 15, 2013 | News
Children from the YMCA East Cannington Early Learning Centre helped the Friends of Queens Park Bushland revegetate an area of bush on 15 May 2013. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed planting and watering seedlings grown by the Friends group. The children will water the...
by admin | Mar 29, 2013 | News
Work is being undertaken at the main lake near Station Street to restore it to full function. As stormwater enters the lake it is slowed by the sudden widening of the water body. Slowing of the flow was designed to allow sediment and nutrients to be deposited as the...
by admin | Feb 10, 2013 | News
We had a very good sighting of Lesser long-eared bats on our last night stalk, as you can see from the picture above. While we have seen bats previously, they were flying across the last light of a setting sun and couldn’t be identified. The bats pictured were...
