Treating a "mature" Cat's Claw infestation on the Koala Corridor

One of the landholders on the Koala Corridor has an advanced infestation of Cat's Claw Creeper and while they are not prepared at this stage to increase their riparian fencing area they have allowed us to treat the infestation of CCC. These photos show just how massive cat's claw vines can get, unfortunately we can't get any images of the damage they are doing in the canopy.

I am sure these trees are very grateful for the Federal DAFF  and BMRG funding which make the Cat's Claw control efforts of GMA much more effective.

A bare sandy area covered with Cat's Claw pods from above

A small native tree with four cats claw vines climbing up it and it was still alive ! (Felt marker for scale)

 

A treated CCC stump

Some more vines treated by our contractor

More trees planted and tubers potted up

Another 60 trees were planted today. Lots of blue gums and some narrow leafed iron bark.
That brings our total number of trees planted to more than 400!

Walk along the corridor with MRCCC

Friday 19 April 2013 Brad Wedlock from MRCCC walked along the corridor with two of the landholders and other GMA members.

We surveyed the erosion, looked at species diversity and visited biological control release sites.

Unfortunately it got too dark and we had to head back early before we reached the end of the corridor.

It was a great afternoon!

Another great working bee

Interpretive River bank walked remapped post floods.
88 trees planted
100 tubers potted
More work on banner completed.

And Lawrie's 80th birthday celebrated!

Well done everyone.

Birds of the Mary River Koala Corridor

The Maryborough Bird Watches have undertaken two surveys of the corridor, one on the 26 March 2013 and one on the 14 January 2013

Thank you to Ruby, Coryn and Bill with encouragement from Juanita.

Here's the complete list - the names in black are from 14 Jan, the names in blue are new species on 26 March. Pictures to come!

Little black cormorants

Little Pied Cormorant

White-faced Heron

Jabirus

Cattle Egret

Nankeen Night Heron

Great egret

Straw-necked Ibis

Pacific Black Duck

Chestnut Teal

Spotted Turtledove

Peaceful Dove

Bar-shouldered Dove

Crested Pigeon

Rainbow Lorikeet

Indian Koel (h)

Channel-billed Cuckoo

Pheasant Coucal (h)

Laughing Kookaburra

Forest Kingfisher

Azure kingfisher

Rainbow Bee-eater

Dollar Bird

Welcome Swallow

Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike

Eastern Yellow Robin

Leaden Flycatcher (m)

Willie Wagtail

Lewin’s Honeyeater

White-throated Honeyeater

Brown Honeyeater

Mistletoe Bird (f)

Spotted Pardalote

Figbird (f)

Spangled Drongo

White-winged Choughs

Australian Mudlark (Peewit)

Noisy miner

Australian Magpie

Torresian Crow

Grey butcherbird

Little friarbird

Blue faced honeyeater

Striated pardalotes

White breasted sea eagle

Grey Shrike thrush

Black faced cuckoo shrike

Rufous whistler(m,h)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

(f) female  (m) male  (h) heard

Conditions: 

Bird list 14 Jan 2013 Smith Farm near Petrie Park, Tiaro 8am - 10.30am

Hot morning to 36C at 10.30 after six month drought.

Bird list 26 March 2013 Smith Farm near Petrie Park, Tiaro 8am - 10.30am (?)

Hot morning after two floods in January and February.

 

Wonderful Working Bee

We had a fantastic working bee on Sunday 24th March

Over 100 koala food trees planted, about 20 Cats Claw tubers potted up, background of the banner for Love Mary Day planted and lids made for tingid boxes!

Thanks everyone for your hard work.

Working Bee coming up 24 March...

The working bee this weekend will help us to prepare for Love Mary Day and enable us to deal with some of the damage caused by the recent floods.

Please bring along the usual working gear - sturdy shoes, long sleeves and pants, hat, sunscreen, water bottle.

We'll have a shared lunch, so please bring a plate to share.

Where: 34 Vandoorn Rd, Tiaro, Qld
When: 9am, Sunday 24th March