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Mona Vale Dunes Bushcare

Phone: +61 420 817 574

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24.01.2022 Tomorrow Saturday Sept 12th we'll be back, with good weather forecast. Meet at end of Golf Ave 8.30. BYO gardening gloves and morning tea. We work until 11.30, but any time you can spare is fantastic, thanks. Flowering now: Coastal Teatree Leptospermum laevigatum, like a light snow fall in spring, and Coastal Beard Heath, Leucopogon parviflorus. Each tiny flower has white fur on its petals. (the beard). Phone on this Facebook page is wrong and I cant change it somehow. It's : 0420 817 574

24.01.2022 Next Saturday Nov.14 we'll be back, and this time with MORNING TEA!! We hope to see the Willie Wagtails nesting again and hear the little birds that love this dense bush, safe from Noisy MIners and other bully birds. Meet end Golf Avenue 8.30. These WW nestlings (not ours) and juvenile WW by Neil Fifer. Their neat round nests are bound to a branch by spider webs and very hard to spot.

23.01.2022 Help Coming! see (red dotted) map of contract work area starting soon, near end of Golf Ave Mona Vale. This bush looks green and good but asthma weed, coastal morning glory and asparagus are a constant lurking problem beyond the bushcare volunteers' ability to control. Thanks to Northern Beaches Council for this grant of $3500 and to Pittwater Natural Heritage Association for an extra $1000 to fund this work, very encouraging for the bushcare group.

18.01.2022 Feeling pleased with ourselves at the end of another good session. Too bad you can't see all the weed bags we filled. Next month we'll be back on Saturday 12th and Thursday 17th September.

18.01.2022 Thursday August 20 8.30 at the end of Golf Ave is our next meeting. The Whipbird is calling, the Coastal Wattle is blooming. How about joining us to learn about the dunes plants we've labeled near the path. BYO Gloves and morning tea. Wear long pants and long sleeves.Tools provided. Photo: Coastal Teatree, Leptospermum laevigatum will be out soon.

17.01.2022 We're back again on Thursday January 21 starting at 8am to dodge the heat. Meet at end of Golf Ave for another morning of looking after this special place. Bush regeneration contractors Dragonfly will soon start work on maintenance in the area east of where we usually work along the track, targeting asthma weed and coastal morning glory. Here are dates for your 2021 Diary:

15.01.2022 Wow! a great morning today. Lots of helpers, Georgie started her Duke of Ed with her mum Susie. So satisfying to work together restoring native vegetation on Mona Vale dunes. Birds we heard in the bush: Eastern Whipbird, Silvereyes, Willie Wagtails, White-browed Scrubwrens. These are birds whose habitat is dense native bush. Here we are: missing is Danina, sorry! She was still deep in the bush. Morning Tea is on again. At our Christmas meetings on Saturday December 12 and Thursday 17th There Will be Cake!

07.01.2022 This Saturday Feb 13 at 8 am, we're back again, meeting at beach end of Golf Ave. You're welcome to join us for as long as you like 8-11am, including morning tea and a chat. We'll show you progress on the big cleared area near the golf ball shelter where we'll be planting tubestock in autumn. The worst weed here is Green Cestrum, being cleared by the Dragonfly bush regeneration team, funded by the grant from the Federal government Communities Environment program to Pittwater Natural Heritage Association. GREEN CESTRUM Cestrum parqui is native to Chile and Peru. Foliage and berries are extremely poisonous to humans and other animals. It is difficult to remove.

01.01.2022 Saturday October 10th 8.30 end of Golf Ave will be our next dunes morning. Then Thursday 15th. Beach Morning Glory Calystegia soldanella is a delicate native morning glory, in the Convolulus family. It flowers in spring, doesn't climb much, preferring to hang out under the wattle in some shade. Not shown here, Mile a Minute Ipomoea cairica is another story. Another Morning Glory, it's an invasive weed we are trying to control as it can smother other plants.

01.01.2022 The Pittwater Natural Environment Association's grant project site today, Friday September 11, photo. Contractors are continuing to remove dense weeds by a combination of spraying and hand weeding. It's more a case of revegetation than bush regeneration. PNHA expects the site will be ready for tubestock planting in May 2021. You cant see this site from the pathway as we dont want people wandering in there just yet.