Bridgetown-Greenbushes Community Landcare in Bridgetown, Western Australia | Community organisation

Bridgetown-Greenbushes Community Landcare

Locality: Bridgetown, Western Australia

Phone: +61 428 723 111

Address: 154 Hampton St 6255 Bridgetown, WA, Australia

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25.01.2022 Our final two guided Wildflower Wanders with local botanist Erica Shedley are coming up- Thursday 8th October at the Wandoo Valley Walk Trail, and Tuesday 13th October at the Old Abattoir Walk Trail starting at 9.30am and finishing with morning tea at 11.30am. Learn much more about our wonderful local wildflowers that just their names on these guided walks in some of our favorite bushland areas. Bookings are essential and the cost is $10.00, please phone the Community Landcare Office on 0428 723 111 to register.

25.01.2022 Here is a great workshop from the Blackwood Basin Group and Maroo Wildlife Refuge to be held 9.30am - 3pm on Sat 15th August at Perup, Natures Guesthouse, Tonebridge. Contact Karrie to book your place before 10th August.

25.01.2022 National Landcare Week is next week but since I'll be away from work then I'd like to recognise today the wonderful work that our Helping Hands Bushcare volunteers do throughout the year in all kinds of weather. This month we've had two community planting days- the first one was wet and muddy and today was sunny and fine- where over 700 local native seedlings were planted and tree guarded at two Shire Reserves to help provide more habitat for our local fauna. The volunteers... are a passionate bunch of people and are a real pleasure to work with so thanks everyone- you know who you are and you make my day :) A big shout out and thanks to everyone involved in LANDCARE- in the local area, across the state and the whole country, it is vital work, often unrecognised, underfunded and done on the smell of an oily rag but carried out by people who care enough to make a difference, no matter how big or small the project. LOVE YOUR WORK!! See more

24.01.2022 Cheryl is in the Community Landcare office attached to Visitors Centre

23.01.2022 Our fabulous Helping Hands Bushcare volunteers are back at work, doing their good deeds removing Blackberry, Bridal Creeper and many feral bulbs along a creekline, socially distanced of course. Thanks Mother Nature for pouring out the sunshine while we worked, complementing all of the hard work already done there by a couple of dedicated community members. The area is this years winter planting site to put habitat back where the weeds once dominated :)

23.01.2022 Great way to see possibilites on your properties

22.01.2022 A wonderful story with Bruce Pascoe and perennial native grasses :)

21.01.2022 The 2020 Aussie Backyard Bird Count by BirdLife Australia is open now from 19-25 Oct. The #AussieBirdCount is a great way to connect with the birds in your backyard no matter where your backyard happens to be a suburban backyard, a local park, a patch of forest, down by the beach, or the main street of town. Spread the word and get landcarers and the wider community counting. You can count as many times as you like over the week, we just ask that each count is completed over a 20-minute period. The data collected assists BirdLife Australia in understanding more about the birds that live where people live. For more information on how to take part, please visit the Birdlife Australia website: aussiebirdcount.org.au

21.01.2022 Helping Hands on thursday led by Cheryl Hamence CLO - WATSONIA BEING removed from strangling our native Flora - wonderful bunch of volunteers turned up - always more are helpful - great morning tea break and camaradie

21.01.2022 Our first sighting of a new potential environmental weed, identified as the Friars Cowl Lily (Arisarum vulgare) that is spreading from what was a pile of dumped garden rubbish down near a creekline. Luckily it has been seen and identified in time to dig it up to stop it spreading any further. Please keep an eye out for any further infestations and if you see it in any Shire Reserves or other bushland areas let us know at the Landcare Office on 0428 723 111 and hopefully between us all we can stop it becoming a more serious weed.

20.01.2022 Numbers are filling for a special screening @ NOON on Saturday of the movie CRY of the FORESTS" Please don't rely on rocking up on the day because the numbers may have reached the "COVID cut off" limit of 52 set by the Shire.... TEXT or RING to reserve a place 0427 611 511. Best wishes to all Richard See more

19.01.2022 Here is another great reason to be outside and have a close looking at what's visiting your garden :)

18.01.2022 Karen Riley is a Research Associate at Murdoch University and currently completing her PhD on black cockatoo movement and ecology and has asked for our help. People of Greenbushes/Nannup - do you know of any white-tailed black cockatoo roosting locations near you? We're on the look-out for roosting locations as potential release sites for rehabilitated Baudin's cockatoos that will be GPS tracked as part of Murdoch University's Black Cockatoo Conservation Management Project. ...The release is scheduled for this time next year but since roost sites tend to get used year after year, we would love to hear about any currently active sites. Roosts are areas where the birds congregate in trees to spend the night and are identifiable by lots of raucous activity at dusk and dawn. While we’re specifically looking for roost sites, information about any locations regularly used by white-tailed Black Cockatoos in the Greenbushes/Nannup area is welcome. Please contact Karen at [email protected] if you can help her See more

16.01.2022 A gorgeous spring day, great company, beautiful wildflowers and a very knowledgeable guide made our wildflower wander at the Bridgetown Jarrah Park a treat. Thanks to Erica and all of the participants, looking forward to the next one at the Wandoo Valley Walk Trail :)

16.01.2022 A wonderful bird walk was held on Saturday morning with guide Erica Shedley showing us many of the local birds found around the Blackwood River Park area. Birds spotted included the sleeping Nankeen Night Heron, the tiny Spotted Pardalote, the musical Western Gerygone and its well hidden nest, Red-eared Fire Tail Finchs, Golden Whistlers, Weebills, Red Shouldered Fairy Wrens and Red Tail Black Cockatoos and many more. The more you look and listen, the more you see and hear :)

15.01.2022 Thursday 30th August 9-12, Layman St Reserve, Bridgetown. National Tree Day is just around the corner and although there are no formal plantings this year we will be holding the second of our community revegetation plantings this Thursday with the Helping Hands Bushcare volunteers. We have around 250 local understorey seedlings to be planted and tree guarded in the buffer planting next to the Hakea Seed Orchard that was established two years ago. All tools, plants and morning tea provided, just bring your energy and good will for as long as you want on the morning. Social distancing protocols are adhered to at our planting events to keep it Covid19 safe. The yellow area on the map below shows where we will be planting :) All hands are welcome.

12.01.2022 Okay, today is a bit of a whinge: this morning the fabulous Helping Hands Bushcare volunteers continued with the manual weed control along the creekline just out of Bridgetown beside the Brockman Hwy and one of them mentioned that a family member had seen a vehicle with two men and a trailer driving on the track where we were working earlier this morning. Just up the track there is a large fresh pile of lawn clippings that no doubt these two men had dumped! The tip is open today from early in the morning and green waste is FREE to dispose of so WTF! It is NOT OK to dump garden waste in the bush, it is a sure way of spreading weeds. It is just so disrespectful to see behaviours like this when there are community members volunteering regularly to help clean weeds out of our bushland areas.Okay, rant over...

09.01.2022 It's that perfect time of year for a Wildflower Wander so join us at the Bridgetown Jarrah Park on Thursday morning, guided by local plant enthusiast and botanist Erica Shedley. Cost is $10 pp including morning tea, please book through the Landcare Office on 0428 723 111 or email [email protected] so that I bring enough cake and cups :)

09.01.2022 If you want to know what's involved in putting our local plants back into the landscape for a whole range of reasons this field trip is for you, numbers are limited so book with the Community Landcare Office now :)

05.01.2022 It's planting time again to bring some local native plants onto your property and into the garden to provide food, shelter and habitat for our native fauna. We have quite a lot of pre-loved corflute tree guards and bamboo stakes from some of our previous projects that we are happy to give away to anyone who may need them. The guards are great for protecting the new seedlings from rabbits, curious waterbirds and post planting weed control. If you would like some of these guards please contact the Community Landcare Office and we can arrange a time and place for you to collect them :)

04.01.2022 Helping Hands this Thursday 16th July, 9am-midday. Time to get some plants in the ground! Join us along the section of the Yornup Brook that we call Abbotts Creek to plant and tree guard some local riparian plant species and increase the habitat values of this tributary of the Blackwood River. The area is beside the Brockman Hwy on the left hand side not long after you go over the railway line just out of Bridgetown. Tools, plants, tree guards and morning tea will be provided, just bring your gloves and energy. Ring Cheryl on 0428 723 111 if you need any more information :)

02.01.2022 Ever wondered what that beautiful wildflower is? Here is your chance to find out, join us on a wonderful wildflower walk through the bush near the Greenbushes Golf Club followed by morning tea ... registrations are essential to keep the numbers at a Covid19 safe level :)

02.01.2022 Our fabulous Helping Hands Bushcarers have been out and about working hard in our Reserves again this month. Whipper snipping, hand weeding and raking the walk trail steps at the Layman St Reserve, weeding wild Tangier Pea, pulling Tagasaste and weeding vetch at Dorothy Scott Bushland and today, removing re-sprouting weed wattles, Watsonia and Tagasaste beside the Old Abattoir Walk Trail. Plus we're still removing lots of historic rubbish from all of the reserves that we work in. Love their work (and all of them)!