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Friends of Jirdarup Bushland

Locality: East Victoria Park, Western Australia

Address: Kent St East Victoria Park, WA, Australia

Website: http://www.friendsofjirdarupbushland.org.au

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25.01.2022 Read all about it! Our competition is in the Southern Gazette! Now is your chance to capture the beauty of Jirdarup Bushland, and win amazing prizes! $3,000 cash/prize pool! See the attached poster for more details or check out our new website: www.friendsofjirdarupbushland.org.au ... Special thanks go to all of our wonderful sponsors and supporters of the competition. Some of them are: Waldecks Garden Centre Bentley Victoria Park Rotary Beaver Tree Services Perth NRM Pets and Vets WA Connect Victoria Park Inc BirdLife Western Australia Victoria Park Centre for the Arts A huge thanks to James Audcent (www.jamesaudcent.com/ ) for our great website. Entries are now open! We look forward to seeing your images of Jirdarup!

25.01.2022 Heres just a few smiling faces (or picture in lieu ;-) ) of the hundreds of folks that are Friends of Jirdarup Bushland - champion weeders, waterers, supporters, fund-raisers, promoters, planters, and event running champions among them! (Not in this photo? Ill be doing some more mosaics of the Friends over the next couple of weeks - so keep your eyes open! ) Want to get involved? Were weeding this Sunday 27th Sept. 9-11. Meet at the Etwell St entrance. Questions or R...SVPs to me (Fiona) please ( [email protected] ). Thanks! Weve not yet organised dates for October but to get on the Friends mailing list or to find out future dates (we always email our mailing list folks with those) drop Klaus an email ([email protected]). Photo credits: too many to mention!

24.01.2022 Submit your photos of Jirdarup (including Kensington Bushland and George Street Reserve) for a chance to win the $500 cash prize that Perth NRM are generously sponsoring for the winners of the landscape category in our competition. There's runner up cash prizes too! Submit before 31 August and be in the draw for an early bird prize too! Over $3,000 in prizes! See the attached poster for more details or check out our great new website (with thanks to James Audcent (www.jam...esaudcent.com/ ): www.friendsofjirdarupbushland.org.au Special thanks go to all of our wonderful sponsors and supporters of the competition. Landscapes of Jirdarup - these quick snaps taken in Kensington Bushland and George Street Reserve this week show some of the lovely bushland we have! Photo credits: Fiona - Saturday 15th August Wildflower Society of Western Australia Inc. - Events WA Naturalists' Club #perthfestivals #perthwhatson #Perthtodo #Perthnow #Perthhapennings #Photography #JustGoShoot #InstaGood #InstaPhoto #Camera

24.01.2022 We'll be at Vic Park Markets tomorrow. Come and see us to learn about our competition (lots of $500 cash prizes to be won) and how you can get involved with the bushland. Can't make it? Check out our great new website instead - www.friendsofjirdarupbushland.org.au Thanks to Victoria Park Rotary for their support of our competition. Support local business at this Farmers Market and come talk to us too!... A huge thanks to James Audcent (www.jamesaudcent.com) for our great website.

23.01.2022 You've heard of POP-UP SHOPS, well how about POP-UP WEEDING?! I'll be weeding in the Bushland Thursday 20th 1.30 to 3 - so if you want to be in the Bushland enjoying the almost-spring flowers while weeding with me, then come and join in. Can't make those dates but want to get involved? Join us this Sunday 23rd 10-12, or Sept. 5th and 6th 10-12. If joining in Thursday 20th's pop-up weeding meet me at the bird waterer. RSVps/questions to [email protected] and see my other post for more details (what to bring etc.) You'll take away satisfaction, knowing you're making a difference to the wonderful Bushland and the critters that call it home. Photo credit: Robert

23.01.2022 You never know when you might see something new in Kensington Bushland! Recently weve had a couple of sightings of the Painted button quail - and its not been recorded in KB before. Theres a Victoria Park Vet Clinic Fauna Award up for grabs in our competition - a $500 cash prize! When your need your own animals looked after check out our lovely sponsors Pets and Vets WA on Albany Highway, East Vic Park. The pictures of the Painted button quail are by Steve Spragg (ta...ken back in April) and the other critters are by Robert Audcent. $3,000 of prizes to be won! To find out more about competition check out our website www.friendsofjirdarupbushland.org.au - thanks James (www.jamesaudcent.com)

23.01.2022 Check out the changes over 4 years at GSR!! Want to take some flora shots for the Images of Jirdarup competition? Want to get close up to the plants? Then check out the George Street Reserve (GSR) section of the Jirdarup Bushland Precinct, where there are no fences. Please just look where you are walking (for your safety as well as looking after the plants) and also make sure your footwear is clean - were dieback-free and need to stay that way so the plants keep thrivin...g (helps to feed the black cockatoos). Thanks! George Street Reserve has grown so amazingly - check out these shots covering a four-year period of the Town of Victoria Park revegetation program! The quickest way to access GSR is to park on Anketell Street (see map). The aerial photo for the map was taken years ago, before the revegetation efforts were changing the whole look of the place! (In future look out for the roll out of the Sandpit revegetation!!) For more information about the photo competition please visit our website: www.friendsofjirdarupbushland.org.au Good luck! Photo credits: Robert Audcent & Fiona Audcent-Ross

23.01.2022 Here are photos of Jirdarup Bushland - taken by Kat Wray of Red Eclectic in 2018 and used here courtesy of the Town of Victoria Park. Visit our new website (https://www.friendsofjirdarupbushland.org.au/) for more information on our photo competition with loads of cash prizes, including the $500 first prize for the Perth NRM Landscape/Habitat category. Lots of otherprizes too, thanks to our lovely sponsors, including GINGA Creative Art and Movement - Providing guidance and training for a range of creative movement in the form of Yoga, Kung fu, Self-Defence, Latin Dancing, Visual Arts and Self Esteem (check out the GINGA image for more details).

22.01.2022 Did you see the wonderful news signs in the Bushland at our celebration event? If not, come and visit the Bushland to see all four signs for yourself: birds, wildflowers, trees, and reptiles. Nature Play WA and the Town of Victoria Park have also just released the Kensington Bushland Play trail, Check it out too!! https://www.natureplaywa.org.au/kensington Check out the captions of the images here to find out a bit more about the new signage. ... SO many organisations and individuals were involved in the development (design & content) and construction of the signs. Thank you to everyone involved, especially Kat Wray from Red Eclectic who led the wonderful design work! A special shout out to Stephen (better known, of course, as Bushy) of Town of Victoria Park is also needed, to recognise his huge efforts in making the collaborative signage such a successful project! The Friends loved being involved - thank you! www.fojb.org.au

21.01.2022 Jirdarup - lots of ways to get involved to help preserve Jirdarup Bushland! Photo credits: Robert Audcent, Fiona and Vicki

21.01.2022 The orchids are out! (and lots of other lovely plants too) Here's a few shots taken yesterday, while I was doing some weeding. Hope you can visit the Bushland soon to see them in person. Want to do your bit for the Bushland? Then join us weeding this Sunday, August 23rd 10-12. Cant make it? Then save the date(s) for September 5th and/or 6th, as well be weeding those mornings too. Ditto Sunday Sept. 13th. See the separate weeding post for more information or email me, Fiona ([email protected])

20.01.2022 "Don't just take photos. Capture moments. Tell a story." Georgina Steytler (see Georgina Steytler Photography) Xinyang Zhao's, Birth in the dying acres, ... and winner of the Perth NRM Landscape/Habitat 1st prize does just that! Fiona Photo credit: Vicki

20.01.2022 Want to help out with weeding tomorrow (Sunday 26th 10-12)? We'll be in the George Street Reserve area of the Bushland precinct - so the meeting place is different from normal (see the big star on the map). Cant make tomorrow, but want to get involved? Then save the dates for Saturday 8th August (well be weeding near the entrance, bird waterer, and Christmas Tree areas) and Sunday 23rd August (areas tbc). RSVPs and questions to Fiona ([email protected]) or send us ...a PM on this page. NEXT WEEDING: SUNDAY 26th JULY - 10 - 12 BRING: a hat, gloves, enclosed shoes, long trousers, water, sunscreen and 1-2 hours of your time. Weve got trowels you can use, or bring your own, if you prefer. MEETING POINT: Just this once, well be meeting in the George Street Reserve part of Jirdarup - see the big star on the map (NB Ill be parking in Anketell Street to save some energy for weeding).

20.01.2022 Join us for our really BIG spring event to celebrate Jirdarup Bushland, its new interpretive signage and two brand new bird waterers! See posters for details. There will be activities for the kids, everyone can learn more about local organisations and programs, enjoy guided walks, music and more! Book your FREE ticket using this link: https://www.trybooking.com/book/event?eid=651485 See you all on the 19th!

19.01.2022 This stunning photograph showcases the wonderful wildlife we have right on our doorsteps and have a duty to protect in every way we can. The Pets and Vets WA Fauna Award 1st prize Teaching the Young One by Christine Chester ... Fiona Photo credit: Vicki

18.01.2022 Today the Friends had the pleasure of taking two different groups around the Bushland - the photography class from Kent Street Senior High School and, earlier, Connect Victoria Park Inc. Lovely to show more folks their precious local bushland :-)

18.01.2022 A beautful closeup of a banksia! Jirdarup's precious black cockatoos would approve of this winning photograph! The Waldecks Garden Centre Bentley Flora Award 1st prize, Ain’t Life Grand(is), by Alison Higgins... Fiona Photo credit: Vicki

18.01.2022 Two more days to vote for the People's Choice! Voters go into a draw to win a $100 voucher courtesy of Camera Electronic, so you could be a winner too, just by voting. We'll be tallying up all the votes after Thursday to find out who is the winner of the $500 Victoria Park Rotary People's Choice first prize! There's a $100 second prize up for grabs too! The Friends are so grateful to all of our sponsors, including Julian Leach of Verse Property, without our sponsors we coul...dn't put on this great exhibition that celebrates all things Jirdarup! I see on the Verse FB page that Julian got to appreciate even more of WA's wonderful plant diversity last month - he did the "bucket list of many" Cape to Cape track! The "Images of Jirdarup 2020" exhibition's last day is Wednesday 25th Nov. - so get in quick to see the wide variety of photos (and maybe purchase a gift for yourself or a loved one?). Photo is of Leon setting up the Kent Street Gallery-Victoria Park Centre for the Arts display and was taken by Vicki.

18.01.2022 Seen our article on the restoration of Kent Street Sandpit that's in the Urban Bushland Council WA Inc's newsletter? It's hot off the press! The restoration and opening up of the previously locked Sandpit site by Town of Victoria Park will be a wonderful boon to the community - and community involvement in the restoration will be significant, with the Friends group playing a pivotal role (e.g. planting, weeding, watering, and events). It's great to read about all the differ...ent ways lots of folks around Perth are doing great things looking after the precious urban bushland at our doorsteps! Here's the link where you can access their Winter 2020 news and lots more: https://www.bushlandperth.org.au/reso/urban-bush-telegraph/ See more

16.01.2022 THE BUSHLAND NEEDS YOU THIS SUNDAY, August 23rd. Cant make it? Then save the date(s) for September 5th and/or 6th, as well be weeding those mornings too. Ditto Sunday Sept. 13th. The forecast is good for weeding this Sunday morning, August 23rd 10-12. Come for an hour or two - it all helps! No experience is required - just a willingness to make a positive difference. Come and enjoy being in the Bushland as more and more things start flowering.... Meet at the Etwell Street entrance of Kensington Bushland (i.e. near the bird waterer at 10). Bring your own gloves, hat, closed shoes, sunscreen, water bottle and, if desired, your own trowel. We have bags to put the weeds in and some weeding tools (if you want to use one). Please RSVP (or your questions) to Fiona on [email protected] (or pm this FB page) We look forward to seeing you in the Bushland sometime soon! Photo credits: all Robert's I believe (taken in earlier years - but this year's orchids are just starting to appear, I'm told) Check out our Orchids photos folder: https://www.facebook.com/pg/Jirdarup/photos/?tab=album&album_id=802404773254939

16.01.2022 Rex, the gorgeous Baudins Black Cockatoo from Kaarakin Black Cockatoo Conservation Centre, will be putting in a special appearance at tomorrows celebration at Jirdarup! The forecast looks less than ideal but the 2pm-4pm celebration is still on!! Weve got some contingencies (e.g. marquees /clubrooms) and add your umbrella & wet weather gear to the things to bring (not forgetting your binoculars and camera*). Cant make it? Then please cancel your booking on Trybooking htt...ps://www.trybooking.com/BLBTD - as we do have others waiting to get tickets! You need to sign in on arrival, so please allow time for this. Arrive a little earlier to ensure you dont miss anything! At 2pm sharp, we will commence with the formalities, including a smoking ceremony, which will be followed by guided walks by experts and an aboriginal-inspired afternoon tea. There will be information stalls and kids activities for a fun afternoon. Some parking is available at the Harold Rossiter Clubroom, or alternatively park on Rathay St. and walk across the oval to the Bushland. The Friends and Town of Victoria Park look forward to seeing you as we celebrate our bushland in spring! * PS. photo competition entries need to be in very soon!! See www.fojb.org.au for more details. Photo: Rex - detail of a photo on Kaarakin Black Cockatoo Conservation Centre

16.01.2022 Great to see more trees getting planted! The Friends are BIG believers in the importance of wildlife corridors and positive action to help with our drying climate.

16.01.2022 The Friends of Jirdarup Bushland are proud to present our very first movie, courtesy of the Town of Victoria Park and their Urban Forest Strategy team (https://www.victoriapark.wa.gov.au///Urban-Forest-Strategy). The movie was filmed on the recent Jirdarup planting day as part of a program for Gardening Australia. Well keep you posted on when the program will be aired. UPCOMING EVENTS: WEEDING - Next sessions are 9-11am on Sunday 13th and 27th Sept. Contact Fiona ([email protected] ) to RSVP or if youve any questions. CELEBRATE JIRDARUP SPRING EVENT, 19 September 2020, 2-4pm (next weekend!!). Got your free ticket yet? Guided walks, live music, kids' activities and more! See the new interpretive signs and bird waterer! For more information and To register: TryBooking https://www.trybooking.com/BLBTD Thanks go to Town of Victoria Park and Foundation for National Parks & Wildlife for our new bird waterers. Watch out for a separate FB post soon on the fabulous signs now in the Bushland - a fantastic collaboration between lots of people. IMAGES OF JIRDARUP 2020' PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION, with $3,000 worth of cash prizes (entries close 30 Sept.) - go to www.fojb.org.au for more details. Our competition is possible due to many wonderful sponsors, including our eight prize sponsors: Pets and Vets WA - Fauna Award Perth NRM - Landscape/habitat Award Waldecks Garden Centre Bentley - Flora Award Beaver Tree Services - Junior <18 years Award Victoria Park Rotary - Peoples Choice Award Connect Victoria Park Inc Hawaiian's Park Centre BirdLife Western Australia - for the runners up prizes WANT TO GET INVOLVED? Want to know about upcoming events you can attend? want to help make them happen? want to care for the very special Jirdarup Bushland? Get onto our mailing list! (email Klaus - [email protected]). #LoveVicPark Vic Park Urban Foresters #GreeningVicPark Vic Park Trees

15.01.2022 The junior category had the second highest number of entries (after flora with the highest number), so special congratulations to all of our junior category finalists! The Beaver Tree Services Junior Award 1st prize winner Sav Noble, Kent Street Senior High School, stands beside his captivating Foney Fungi entry. The beautiful Yellow Joy by Ching Yi Lu, Wesley College Perth, received the second prize of the category (sponsored by Hawaiian's Park Centre). ... Fiona Photo credits: Stacey Tylor and Fiona

14.01.2022 Is our photo competition bringing out the artist in you? or the storyteller? Click on the photo to find out more about this photo, one of my all-time Kensington Bushland favourites (taken by Robert Audcent). See our poster for more details on our comp. or check out: www.friendsofjirdarupbushland.org.au. ... Thanks to our growing list of sponsors who are making the competition possible, like White Frame Como. White Frame have recently moved but theres no change in the great ways they support the art in our community. Theyre a major sponsor in the City of South Perth Emerging Artist Award this year (and have been a major sponsor for years). A huge thanks also to James Audcent (www.jamesaudcent.com/ ) for our great new website.

13.01.2022 Want to weed among the orchids? Well, thats what some of our fantastic weeders were doing this weekend! Heres some pictures I took afterwards. The Spring weather is making our beautiful native plants burst into flower. Got some good photos? Dont forget to get your entries in for a chance to win the $500 cash Waldecks Garden Centre Bentley - Flora Award prize for example! (more details of the $3K+ prizes at www.fojb.org.au). When youre checking out the many fantastic n...ative plants coming into flower at Waldecks Garden Centre Bentley dont forget to say thanks to the staff for their support of the photo competition and Jirdarup. Our next major weeding session is Sunday 13th 9-11 am (note the earlier start time - 24 degrees max. forecast!) and well be weeding in the Mistletoe Tree crossroads area. The next big session after that is on Sunday 27th Sept. Questions or RSVPs to me (Fiona) please ( [email protected] ). Thanks! Photo credits: Fiona on Sunday 6th Sept. (very windy so not optimal for closeup shots - very blustery conditions so my red hat kept flying!)

13.01.2022 Save the date! 2-4pm Saturday 19th September - for the biggest event of the year at Jirdarup! More details soon!Save the date! 2-4pm Saturday 19th September - for the biggest event of the year at Jirdarup! More details soon!

11.01.2022 Heres some shots of whats flowering now in the bushland :-) Later in the season one of our wonderful competition sponsors will be busy collecting seeds, like theyve done annually since 2006. Tranen Revegetation Systems (https://www.tranen.com.au/) were recently awarded their 900th revegetation project! One of these projects has been the seed collection program at KB for the Town of Victoria Park. All the seed collected has gone into the KB seedbank and is only used in restoration activities around the site. (or the wonderful ToVP plant give away for residents - spreading a little bit of Jirdarup in the neighbourhood!). Tranen have also been involved with the George Street Revegation project. Photo credits: Fiona - taken Saturday 15th August

11.01.2022 And the winners are: FAUNA The Pets and Vets WA Fauna Award 1st prize = #34 Teaching the Young One by Christine Chester The second prize (sponsored by BirdLife Western Australia) = #45 The Sentinel by Emma Jones... FLORA The Waldecks Garden Centre Bentley Flora Award 1st prize = #28 Ain’t Life Grand(is) by Alison Higgins The second prize (sponsored by Connect Victoria Park Inc) = #26 The Herd by Mark de Cruz LANDSCAPE/HABITAT The Perth NRM Landscape/Habitat 1st prize = #51 Birth in the dying acres by Xinyang Zhao The second prize (sponsored by Hawaiian's Park Centre) = #59 Winter Morning by Jon Young JUNIOR The Beaver Tree Services Junior Award 1st prize = #7 Foney Fungi by Sav Noble, Kent St SHS The second prize (sponsored by Hawaiian's Park Centre) = #10 Yellow Joy by Ching Yi Lu, Wesley College PEOPLE'S CHOICE The Victoria Park Rotary people’s Choice 1st prize = #59 Winter Morning by Jon Young The second prize (sponsored by Connect Victoria Park Inc) #37 Afternoon Yawn (tawny frogmouth juvenile with adult in daytime roost) by Kerry Whitworth VOTER’S PRIZE The lucky People’s Choice Voter’s Prize (a $100 gift voucher from Camera Electronic) went to Flora Johnston. Congratulations to all of the winners! Thank you to our sponsors for making these great prizes possible! Most of all, thank you for helping to share with the wider community just how special the Jirdaup Bushland Precinct is for us all. Here's a few shots from Awards Night - great fun and the food from Flowers&flour was delicious!! Thanks also go to our special guest presenters for their assistance. I'll put up some posts of the winners later tonight and there will be some more to look forward to tomorrow as well. Enjoy! Fiona Photo credits: Vicki, Laura and Justin

11.01.2022 Entered your photos of Jirdarup Bushland yet? Get those cameras or phones out! Or look at photos youve already got - photos taken in Jirdarup (including Kensington Bushland and George Street Reserve) in the past also can be entered! But youll need to act quickly - the entry deadline of 30th of September is looming! You can find all the rules on our fabulous new website www.fojb.org.au. DATES FOR YOUR DIARY - The public exhibition of the winners AND the best of the re...st runs Friday 6th to Wednesday 25th November 2020 in the Kent Street Gallery-Victoria Park Centre for the Arts. We look forward seeing your pictures in the exhibition! FAME and FORTUNE? As well as the $500 cash first prizes (for Fauna, Flora, Habitat/Landscape, Junior and The Peoples Choice categories) and $100 second prizes, courtesy of our wonderful sponsors, your photos could go on public display!! The winners AND the best of the rest photographs will grace the Gallery walls in November! The $10 entry fee (for three photos) goes towards the costs of printing and mounting the winners and the best of the rest. Could that you include YOUR PHOTO(S)? Photo credit: Robert Audcent Photography Website design: www.jamesaudcent.com Town of Victoria Park Perth NRM Waldecks Garden Centre Bentley Pets and Vets WA Victoria Park Rotary Beaver Tree Services Hawaiian's Park Centre BirdLife Western Australia Connect Victoria Park Inc

10.01.2022 The friendly folks at Waldecks Garden Centre Bentley are sponsors of the $500 cash prize for the best photo entered in the flora category of our competition - so get your cameras out and get your best photos entered! I took some quick shots today (8th) after weeding finished to show you some of the lovely spring plants that are flowering in Kensington Bushland right now. $3,000 of prizes to be won! Youll find our valued sponsor Waldecks Garden Centre Bentley on Manning Road, Bentley and they have a new facade (see photo by Steve), providing easy access to their massive range of bagged top soils, soil conditioners and mulches. To find out more about competition check out our website www.fojb.org.au - thanks James [www.jamesaudcent.com]

10.01.2022 GET THOSE ENTRIES IN TO WIN THE CASH! (and/or get your photo(s) EXHIBITED at Kent Street Art Gallery!) Not long now to take and submit your wonderful photos of Jirdarup's flora, fauna, and landscape/habitat! There's also the under 18 category with a $500 cash first prize, and "The People's Choice" award too. For more information check out our website: www.fojb.org.au... The competition wouldn't be possible without our wonderful sponsors, so please thank them when you see them! One of our recent sponsors is Flowers&flour You'll find their baked treats/flowers/catering at 13/964 Albany Highway, E Vic Park, but check out them out online too (web/FB/Instagram). Their high teas look amazing and their cooking classes tempt too (preserves, crepes, ... making you hungry yet?). Photo: Robert Audcent (one of the judges)

09.01.2022 Got a spare hour or two this Saturday morning? (or Sunday 23rd August?) The forecast is good for weeding this Saturday morning, 8th August 10-12. We'll be weeding around the plants we planted a year ago, around the entrance area, the bird waterer and the Christmas Tree crossroads. Some spring flowers from previous years are here to inspire you (and to remind you to enter our photo competition with loads of great cash prizes!).... Come for an hour or two this Saturday - it all helps! Bring your own gloves, hat, closed shoes, sunscreen, water bottle and, if desired, your own trowel. We have bags to put the weeds in and some trowels (if you want to use one). Any RSVPs or questions to Fiona ([email protected]). No experience is required - just a willingness to make a positive difference! Meet at the Etwell Street entrance of Kensington Bushland (i.e. near the bid waterer at 10). Can't make the 8th? then join us on Sunday 23rd 10-12. We look forward to seeing you in the Bushland sometime soon!

08.01.2022 ENJOY THE BUSHLAND UP CLOSE and WEED IT! Vicki took this shot today during our mini "Pop up weeding". Are you free this Sunday, August 23rd 10-12 to join in with our weeding? The forecast is reasonably good - come for an hour or two - it all helps!... Cant make it? Then save the date(s) for September 5th and/or 6th, as well be weeding those mornings too. Ditto Sunday Sept. 13th. No experience is required - just a willingness to make a positive difference. Come and enjoy being in the Bushland as more and more things start flowering. Lots of orchids today! Meet at the Etwell Street entrance of Kensington Bushland (i.e. near the bird waterer at 10). Bring your own gloves, hat, closed shoes, sunscreen, water bottle and, if desired, your own trowel. We have bags to put the weeds in and some weeding tools (if you want to use one). Please RSVP (or your questions) to Fiona on [email protected] (or pm this FB page) We look forward to seeing you in the Bushland sometime soon! Photo credit:Vicki

08.01.2022 Whether you buy one or more copies for yourself or others (Father's Day? Christmas??) you'll definitely be helping Kaarakin Black Cockatoo Conservation Centre in their wonderful care of WA's precious black cockatoos.

07.01.2022 Jirdarup means Place of Birds in the Nyoongar language. At Jirdarup Bushlands Spring celebration (got your free ticket yet?) youll see the two new bird watering stations that are now getting installed. These are funded by the Town of Victoria Park and a grant to the Friends from the Foundation for National Parks & Wildlife. The structures were designed and manufactured locally with the combined efforts of ToVP staff and Kel Steel (one of our valued photo competition sp...onsors!). They are a new and improved version of the original prototype. The design is a practical, low maintenance, and safe solution to supplying regular fresh water for our precious native birds, including the endangered Carnabys and Forest Red-Tailed Black Cockatoos that roost and feed in the area. See the photo captions for more details. As well as an invaluable and reliable water source for our birds, the structures are sure to be popular with bird watchers, helping to raise awareness of Jirdarup Bushland as a precious wildlife haven. Theyre a wonderful addition to Jirdarup, our Place of Birds. Credits: Foundation for National Parks & Wildlife (Community Conservation Grant) Concept design by Gregor Wilson (ToVP) Project manager: Stephen Szydlowski (Team Leader Natural Areas ToVP) Manufactured by Kel Steel Construction Wrought iron signs by Martin Jaine Sculptures Ornithologic advice by Ron Johnston, Western Australian Museum Photos: Vicki, Stephen, Robert and others

07.01.2022 WEDNESDAY 25th - last day - last chance to see the exhibition! ... and to buy a lovely print (still some available at around the $50 mark when I was there on Sunday). Also, some prices have been reduced by the photographers - so get in quick! Here are the beautiful photos that won a second prize in our competition. Congratulations to these winners! I hope to have time to get even more photos up in the next few days. Sorry for the delays - I’m rather busy as I’m just days... away from submitting my PhD thesis (it’s on star formation in galaxies). The Images of Jirarup competition wouldn’t be possible without the support of our sponsors, like Galactic Cooperative; this socially responsible, worker-owned coop helps all sorts of organisations with innovative solutions to science, engineering, repairs and maintenance, technology, sustainablitity and workplace wellbeing and more. Find out more at Galactic Cooperative. Thank you to our sponsors for all their support! And special thanks to Perth Pro Lab for the beautiful printing and mounting of the photos! Post and photo credits: Fiona - and the lovely shot of the Town of Victoria Park's Kent Street Gallery-Victoria Park Centre for the Arts is by one of the finalists, Melanie Moore (her photo is the beautifully lit gum trees cradling the moon). Thanks for sending your photo of the Awards Night to us!

07.01.2022 What does a crow want with an empty coffee cup?!? Yesterday morning I spotted a crow flying up to a tree with a coffee cup In Kensington Bushland. Sorry I'm not a wildlife photographer, but see if you can see it in the two shots of the tree. I then happened to fluke a shot of it seconds later, flying off with the cup. I wonder what it's going to do with it? Thankfully litter is not normally a problem in our bushland. Maybe the crows are tidying up!! Photos by Fiona Saturday 15th August. BirdLife Western Australia (one of our lovely sponsors of our photo competition!)

07.01.2022 Thank you to EVERYONE who played their part today to make the spring celebration of Jirdarup such a great success! Despite the weather keeping some folks indoors, understandably, we still had a good turnout to celebrate the Bushland and its new signs and bird waterers. Thankfully it also stayed dry for all the expert-guided tours. Want to make sure youre kept informed of future events at Jirdarup? - then get onto our mailing list (email Klaus: [email protected]). I bo...ught some Kaarakin Black Cockatoo Conservation Centre calendars and magnets as lovely souvenirs and gifts. Missed out? Then check out https://blackcockatoorecovery.com/shop/ Heres some photos of the feathered star of the afternoon - Rex the Baudins Black Cockatoo (Zanda baudinii) from Kaarakin Black Cockatoo Conservation Centre. She tried nibbling the prop (the calendar) at one point! Gorgeous bird!! (Photos by Fiona)

06.01.2022 This winning photograph, Winter Morning by Jon Young, looks a bit like a Turner painting! It's our Victoria Park Rotary People’s Choice 1st prize winner AND LANDSCAPE/HABITAT second prize winner (sponsored by Hawaiian's Park Centre) ... Photo credit: Vicki

06.01.2022 Support the efforts to help our wonderful black cockatoos and Kaarakin Black Cockatoo Conservation Centre by buying one of their lovely calendars. It's such a great cause that we're proud to be one of the sponsors of the calendars!

05.01.2022 Got your FREE ticket for next Saturday afternoon yet? Lots of guided walks, activities for the kids, live music, see the wonderful new signs and bird waterer, and more. See the poster for more details. Might be an idea to bring BINOCULARS, if possible, to spot the many birds and flowers in the bushand too. The link to book your free ticket(s) : https://www.trybooking.com/book/event?eid=651485

03.01.2022 Hurray!!! The FIVE Lucky Winners of our Early Bird prizes in our photo competition (see www.fojb.org.au for details) have been drawn! Courtesy of our Supporting Sponsor Bunnings East Victoria Park, these five entrants each win a $20 Bunnings Gift Card: Lesley Macauley Audrey Eszenyi (Junior Photographer, Aged 12) Melanie Dobby Moore... Peter Haines Fiona Plain The gift cards will be sent via snail mail to the lucky winners! In the photo you can see Jenna Grant (Bunnings East Victoria Park - second from left) drawing the prize winners from a Bunnings hat. Friends of Jirdarup Bushlands Vicki Caulfield, Julie Bain, and Laura Jung are looking on. Good luck in the competition - the closing date is 30 September! Dont forget to tell all your friends about it! Its for a good cause - to maintain the health and beauty of our precious Jirdarup Bushland, a biodiversity hotspot in the middle of Perth.

03.01.2022 Entered the photo competition yet? Only 28 days left! https://www.friendsofjirdarupbushland.org.au/ Our competition is possible due in no insignificant part to the generous financial support received by government and political leaders mentioned here. The Town of Victoria Park has always been the stalwart financial supporter of FoJB, and we work hand in glove with the Natural Areas team. The Council, led by Karen Vernon, Mayor of Victoria Park , are leading the way with hi...gh priority greening initiatives for the Town. The Urban Forestry Strategy (https://www.victoriapark.wa.gov.au///Urban-Forest-Strategy) is one such example. Over and above the Town, we recognise the amazing assistance and financial support received from: The Hon. Kate Doust MLC Member for South Metropolitan (Labor Party) Hon Kate Doust MLC Senator Sue Lines Deputy President of the Senate (Labor Party) Senator Sue Lines The Hon. Tim Clifford MLC Member for East Metropolitan (Greens) Tim Clifford MLC Mr Ryan Chorley (Liberal for South Perth) Ryan Chorley - Liberal for South Perth WAs Treasurer, the Hon. Ben Wyatt MLA, has also contributed a twin pack of fine Parliamentary wines which will be sold by auction later in November. Thank you! Photo credit: Robert Audcent (taken Nov. 2019)

02.01.2022 Congratulations to all the winners and finalists! Thanks to everyone who supported the competition in so many ways!

01.01.2022 Hurry, there's not much time left to catch the earlybird offer! Just a reminder that all AUGUST entries into our photo competition will automatically go into a draw for a chance to win one of FIVE $20 Bunnings Gift vouchers! (Courtesy of our Supporting Sponsor Bunnings East Victoria Park). Taken any great photos of the Bushland in the past year or so? Then enter! $3,000 cash prize pool! Its only $10 to enter up to three photos. The $10 entry fee goes towards the costs ...we have of printing and mounting all the winners (including the best of the rest) that will grace the walls of Kent Street Gallery-Victoria Park Centre for the Arts To see all the details and enter please visit our website www.fojb.org.au - soon! Thanks to our category sponsors theres 5 lots of $500 1st place prizes: Perth NRM - Landscape/habitat Award Beaver Tree Services - Junior <18 years Award Waldecks Garden Centre Bentley - Flora Award Pets and Vets WA - Fauna Award Victoria Park Rotary - Peoples Choice Award Thanks to the sponsors, there are other prizes too: Hawaiian's Park Centre Connect Victoria Park Inc BirdLife Western Australia See our wonderful new website for more details www.fojb.org.au Thanks to James Audcent (www.jamesaudcent.com/ ) for our website! Good luck in the competition! Photos are by Robert Audcent (some in 2016, not that long after the devastating fire, hence the burnt branches)

01.01.2022 Kent Street Senior High School visited the Kent Street Gallery-Victoria Park Centre for the Arts on Friday to check out the Images of Jirdarup competition. No wonder - they had FIVE finalists in the competition!! and Sav took out the Beaver Tree Services Junior category first prize! We hope you're all very proud of your achievements - there were a lot of entries in the junior category!! Early on in the competition Vicki, Bree, Robert and I had the pleasure of giving one of... the Kent St SHS Photography classes a guided tour of Jirdarup Bushland. Thanks goes to their teacher Stacey Tylor for organising the excursion. Well done everyone! Keep up with all that great photography! ... and enjoying the wonderful inspriration that Jirdarup Bushland can provide! The Friends love to see the Town of Victoria Park community enjoying their Bushland! Fiona Photo credits: Stacey Tylor and Vicki

01.01.2022 Thanks Karen Vernon, Mayor of Victoria Park! The photos are fabulous (I couldn't resist either!) LAST DAY WEDS!! Fiona

01.01.2022 Want to see the winners? Well, the exhibition closes this Wednesday afternoon - so get to Kent Street Gallery-Victoria Park Centre for the Arts before you miss out on seeing all the gorgeous photos in person. Later on today we'll get the details (and a few more pics) of the winners up on here! Meantime, here's a shot of the gallery with Jon Young's photo (starred) - winner of both first prize Victoria Park Rotary People's Choice and second prize Hawaiian's Park Centre Lands...cape categories! Congratulations Jon! and to all our other award winners! And to ALL of our finalists (their 60 photos were selected from around 830!). Thank you goes to ALL those who entered and supported the Images of Jirdarup 2020 competition, showcasing Jirarup Bushland like never before! This photo is of one of our fabulous judges, and winner of the international Bird Photographer of the Year - Porfolio Award, Georgina Steytler Photography giving a wonderful talk to finalists last week. Thanks Georgina! Fiona Photo credit: Vicki

01.01.2022 Lots of us enjoyed (and learnt lots too!) Kit's Talk and Walk held at Jirdarup Bushland last year (Sept.). Want to learn more or missed out last time? Then check out the workshops being held later this month.

01.01.2022 The early birds catch the worm (or in the case of these Kensington Bushland residents bee or dragonfly!) Hurry, all AUGUST entries into our photo competition will automatically go into a draw for a chance to win one of FIVE $20 Bunnings Gift vouchers! (Courtesy of our Supporting Sponsor Bunnings East Victoria Park). The clock is ticking! Theres now only some of August and September left to get your entries into our Images of Jirdarup 2020 photography competition!... The names of the winners of the early bird Bunnings vouchers will be drawn at random from the August entries and published here on Friday 4th September. To enter, and to view all the details, visit our website www.fojb.org.au asap. Good luck to all entrants! Note: Max one gift voucher per entrant allowed. (KB Photo credits: Robert Audcent, except for the Painted button quail, which is by Steve Spragg - until this year the quail hadn't been recorded in the Bushland before.)