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25.01.2022 It makes dull post for 'the gram' but hey! I am proud to have been part of the team that published this (hopefully) fascinating article in this high-impact journal

25.01.2022 Good weather for ducks! In this case some Plumed Whistling Ducks in the rain in northern Victoria. The bulk of this species population is in the tropical north of Australia but since the 1950s they have spread south and have successfully colonised Victoria and the NSW Riverina area.

25.01.2022 Some of the locals were very happy to see us at the boat ramp this lunchtime Specially this little cutie!

25.01.2022 *Sound on* to hear the cute begging noises that this young Royal Spoonbill just cannot help making, (even while his beak is mostly underwater) while he manages quite well to feed himself ! This is just down the Barwon River from the Connewarre State Game Reserve where these birds bred successfully this year along with thousands of other waterfowl. Countless volunteer hours and real-dollarsfrom @fieldandgameaustralia and @geelongfieldandgame have been poured into the managem...ent of this amazing wetland for decades, creating the very infrastructure that controls the water and creates the habitat. This little fellow owes his very existance to these #surprisingconservationists #weeatducks #duckspotting

24.01.2022 Nobody values wetlands more than duck hunters. But gee, its hard-work staying positive. What makes ducks so different to fish?

23.01.2022 The "tinny with tentacles" was in action on the Gunbower Creek this week #reposted

23.01.2022 Interesting discussion provoking article. Respected researchers in the conservation space are now questioning the "more parks is better" philosophy. #thedeerpeople

23.01.2022 Active little cuties arent they! #Hirudinidae

23.01.2022 New endangered species found at Gunbower

22.01.2022 Excited to kick-off a new research project this week. Evaluating the effects of a range of watering strategies on the productivity of some wetlands in the Gunbower Forest. Particularly focused on how that productivity links through to waterbird and native fish communities. #Northcentral_cma

21.01.2022 Summer seasonal workers program. FWC's latest intern gets to grips with the transport section. He's a keen driver and will work for cookies

21.01.2022 I can't help myself. Not here to look for fish but...found a stream FULL of Galaxids in Croajingalong Nat. Park. I wish I had a net!These were the only few I could film with my phone but everywhere I looked they were packed in like...well, sardines!

17.01.2022 If you care about the Barwon River and its wetlands go to the link below and drop a pin on the map where you can leave a brief description of what's important to you and why. This process is gathering information to using questions such as: What's important to you?... What's getting better? What needs improving in how we manage use? What's your vision for 2050? Unfortunately I couldn't make it to the workshop today; but, I have had my say at : https://barwon.mysocialpinpoint.com.au/barwon-consult

17.01.2022 Today's office location put on Million-star accomodation and a room with a view. #panorama #sandgetseverywhere #nightmoves

16.01.2022 Juvenile carp being consumed by a leech (Hirudinidae) that we found along with the small fish in a fyke net from a #Gunbower Forest wetland. Charming creatures! #waterbugblitzpics #instreambugplitzpics

16.01.2022 Hope to see some discussion about what's working and what's not in watering and managing use at the lower Barwon wetlands and Lake Connewarre. Who's going?

16.01.2022 Lots of talk today on the news about mental illness and its increasing cost on society and the individual. Here is my fave quote from Edward Abbey, the noted environmentalist and author. I feel as if he was speaking to me, and a lot of you... One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am a reluctant enthusiasta part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough t...o fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it’s still here. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much; I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will outlive the bastards. See more

16.01.2022 Spoonbill Saturday! Who else is seeing waterbirds on their travels? The rain along the Victorian coast has been great for boosting waterfowl numbers. These beautiful Royal Spoonbills (Platalea regia) were in a mixed flock of around 100 with some Yellow Billed Spoonbills (Platalea flavipes, not pictured). They were feeding avidly in a flooded cow paddock adjacent to Swan Bay, part of the Port Phillip & Bellarine peninsular site listed under the international Ramsar conservati...on treaty. #spoonbillsaturday #CorangamiteCMA #parksvictoria #Ramsar See more

15.01.2022 It was a pleasure to support Geelong branch of Field and Game Australia trapping and banding ducks tonight with Professor Marcel Klaassen from Deakin University and some of his amazing students. We were excited to find two recaptures from 1 and 2-years ago. Birds were measured, weighed and swabbed and bled for later analysis as part of an ongoing research program. #fieldandgameaustralia #DeakinUniversity

15.01.2022 Gunbower Wetland Productivity: Last year I was leading a team describing and comparing the ecological productivity of three wetlands in the Gunbower Forest. This was a fascinating project to be involved in for me; great country to be working in and hopefully, produced interesting findings and science-based recommendations for wetland managers. For those interested the final report is now a public document and can be downloaded and read from here: https://bit.ly/36qDVny.

15.01.2022 In 50 litres of water from Little Gunbower wetland there is so much life! This swarm of zooplankton was busy building an ecosystem today. The fish and waterbirds and white-bellied fish eagles in this place are the beneficiaries of all the hard workas is anyone of us that enjoys a day in a wetland. #Northcentral_cma #environmentalwater #W4TE

13.01.2022 Happy Froggy Friday : the Gunbower forest is froggin fantastic! We constantly heard and finally 'spotted' some Spotted Marsh Frogs (Limnodynastes tasmaniensis) today (top row). Also found 'signs' of some Eastern Sign-bearing froglets (Crinia parinsignifera)(bottom row) @NorthCentral_cma #W4TE #GunbowerForest #ReedyLagoon

12.01.2022 Happy WORLD WETLAND DAY 2020! Wetlands are many things to many people. Here are some of mine. Lets make sure they stay special. #WorldWetlandDay

11.01.2022 The Gunbower Forest wetlands are waking up as the winter watering of selected wetlands gets the plants growing and the birds courting and nesting. The frogs were loving it and the Red-bellied black snakes were also out and about. It was a pleasure to be starting the Gunbower Wetland Productivity Study this week. This monitoring project will evaluate which of the selected wetlands has the most productive response to watering. Useful information in times when water is scarce! Check back for future updates. #NorthCentralCMA #CMAsGetItDone #FWC

11.01.2022 Here's a simple invention that could also be really useful for fox control at urban reserve sites to protect pet dogs that are being walked, and State Game Reserves where working dogs are used #SwanBay #EdwardsPoint #ConnewarreSGR #BarwonRiver https://www.abc.net.au//fox-baiting-tool-to-help-/11245228

10.01.2022 Happy World Wetlands Day! May your waters be full of fish and your skies full of ducks! If La Niña has her way that wish may come true in Eastern Australia in 2021 #WorldWetlandsDay

09.01.2022 Today's office location put on Million-star accomodation and a room with a view. #panorama #panorasplit #sandgetseverywhere #nightmoves @ Cape Howe

08.01.2022 I spy a shoal of galaxid minnows. If I had a net I could tell you which ones

08.01.2022 I'm proud that my business is part of this mighty conservation network. Thatlittle dot in Australia is me! Fisheries and Wetlands Consulting.

07.01.2022 Black wing stilt (Himantopus himantopus), fishes in the evening light

06.01.2022 The dark green marshes are lit by a galaxy of yellow stars. The prosaically named, "Erect marshflower" doesn't seem to do this plant justice. Nor does, Liparophyllum exaltatum, depending on whether you're a poet or a scientist. PS. Spot the hover fly?

06.01.2022 Happy to be running the annual fish-monitoring on the Gunbower Island waterways this year, with an extra component, implanting Murray Cod with acoustic "pinger" tags. These will enable the @northcentral_cma to track how these fish move in response to work constructing two fishways at #Koondrook and #Cohuna weirs. Murray cod and Golden perch were also implanted with microchips that automatically register passage through fishways. This weeks team also included staff from @natureglenelgtrust and our work-placement student from @deakinuniversity @kye_esp

04.01.2022 Congratulations to the Tasmanian Inland Fisheries Service Carp Management team. The re-opening of Lake Sorell to the public marks a great milestone in efforts to eradicate this pest-fish from the island State. So close. I bet you can smell Victory! ... #fishingtasmania https://www.ifs.tas.gov.au///lake-sorell-re-opens-tomorrow

03.01.2022 A walk along almost any stretch of the Murray River bank will show you where and why people have been living and camping here for thousands of years. I've seen goannas (Lace monitors) and Wallaroo at this site. This shell midden also demonstrates some of the bounty of the river. Weathering out from around 25cm of sandy topsoil. How long does it take for the riverine forest to make 25 cm of topsoil? I dont know, not long - but I'm guessing that line of River mussel shells mark...s the transition from the Holocene to Anthropocene ages. In times marked below that 25cm the river people would have been regularly camped and lived where I'm now camping. Eating the bounty of the river and seasoning it with what grew around them. The shells still remain heaped up where they were discarded for 30m along a high point in the river bank. Today the availble seasonings include Ruby saltbush and Oldman saltbush but things may have changed. Thanks to massive irrigation agriculture and land clearing we can now grow what we like here in #Mildura. Its fair to say I wouldnt be here without it; but in doing so, we have salted the ground. The Blackbox forest is dying along much of this reach. No doubt we have lost diversity. Salinity interception schemes are holding back the losses but its hard to be optimistic about a landscape such as this. We need to do more. What will it look like when another 25cm of topsoil has accumulated? #oldmansaltbush #rubysaltbush #macropusrobusta #madefromwildfood #bushtucker #ChaffeyBend #MalleeCMA #milduraruralcitycouncil See more

02.01.2022 A great initiative to help re-connect indigenous youth with their country. More people valueing healthy wetlands for more reasons. Well done again to #thesurprisingconservationists, Field and Game Australia. https://www.fieldandgame.com.au//indigenous-hunting-initia#

02.01.2022 If you look closely enough there is always something new to see on Gunbower Island. Like the tiny Glomerula Pigweed growing as understorey in the mini forest that is the wetland herbfield. Or the Common Gum Tree stink bug nymph hiding (appropriately?) on a Sneezeweed stem. Or the intriguing tiny silk webs in almost every crack in the wetland clay-paneach one attended by a spider and bejeweled with trapped condensed water vapour on its underside. It occurs to me that the spiders are slowing the rate of evapourative water-loss from the soil and so helping the thirsty herbs. But why? Ask the spiders @northcentral_cma #gunbowerstateforest #waterfornature

02.01.2022 Carp kill at Hattah Lakes and watering in a drought. There has been much negative comment on social media recently about Carp dying as lakes dry up; and about the wisdom of watering lakes and wetlands in the middle of a drought. I have some experience of working on these issues in #theHattahLakes in NW Victoria having completed several research projects on fish populations and their movements around that complicated system of ephemeral lakes, floodplains, and creeks connect...Continue reading

02.01.2022 Fun publicising some recent research today as the culmination of one of 19 research projects undertaken by the National Carp Control Plan funded by the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation. It's been satisfying to finish this work, but its the next chapter when the story really gets interesting for Carp control in Australia! Several regional media outlets responded today to this release. Has anyone seen the story anywhere? If you do please give me a heads-up. I don't read newspapers #FRDC #clearerwaters #LaTrobeUniversity #centreforfreshwaterecosytems