Click on any photo to enlarge. An ongoing work!
So far:
- Awards 2021 ACM Community Group Landcare Award
- Christmas BBQs 2022 back to 2006
- Events – Anderson rd Triangle; Langethy Creek project; Biochar burn; Kolora property visit; Nestboxes; Raptors; Winter dinners; Other dinners; Hanging Rock plantings 2019-2012; Member plantings
- The Weedies on roadsides
- Fauna- Animals; Birds; Frogs; Reptiles; Pests
Awards
Victorian Joan Kirner Landcare Award
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- Penny Roberts high commendation
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- NPS award
Victorian Landcare Award 26 November 2021
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- Video acceptance of Award
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- Post ceremony celebration at the Store
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- Online Zoom ceremony in the Hall
Christmas BBQ parties
2024
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- Xmas bbq, Karl on the tools
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- Trish, Penny, Sue
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- President Karl has a few words
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- Egg toss
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- Wellie toss 1
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- Wellie toss 2
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- Wellie toss 3
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- Tolls win the Wellie toss
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- They won the egg toss too!
2023
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- 2023 Xmas gathering
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- Egg toss
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- Egg toss
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- Wet so inside for supper
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- The Watts boys won the Egg Toss
2022
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- The Stirlings win the egg toss
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- Rob Lawrence presents Ian Scott the Wellie toss trophy
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- Deserts always fantastic
2021
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- Committee announced
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- Egg toss
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- Moriarty’s win egg toss
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- Piniata 1
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- Piniata 2
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- Piniata 3
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- Piniata spoils
2020
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- Rob Lawrence wins the Great Scott Boot toss
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- Hilary instructs the egg toss
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- Mahons win the Egg toss
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- President Howard checks the trophy
2019
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- Watts egg toss winners
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- Egg toss trophy
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- Gumboot toss winners
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- Hot competition in the Egg toss
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- Always fabulous food
2018
2017
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- David Moore wins the gumboot toss again!
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- Xmas party feast 2017, in the Hall on a wet day
2015
2014
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- Bruce Hedge’s drone shot
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- David Moore wins the gumboot toss
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- Gumboot toss winners Bruce Hedge and Wwoofer Philip Schubert
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- Hilary in organisational mode
2012
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- Weedies have a meeting meet at Xmas party 2012
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- Prize for the egg toss
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- Paul wins the gumboot toss
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- Penny and the gingerbread house
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- Nick and Sue Massie
2011
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- Xmas BBQ egg toss 2011
2010
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- Peter and Declan win the egg toss
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- Gumboot toss winner
2009
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- The egg toss 2009
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- Scott trophy presentation for the gumboot toss
2006
Events
Triangle project 2023>
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- Before clearing, April 2023
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- Weed clearing April 2024
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- Working bee April 2024
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- Primary schoolchildren at Triangle project planting
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- May 2024 planting
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- May 2024
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- Nov 2024
Langethy Creek project 2022-3: Planting days, Regenerative grazing seminars
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- Regen grazing workshop
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- Nature’s Playmates workshop for children, Langethy Creek
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- Langethy Creek planting day
Biochar in bathtubs, 26 Sept 2020
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- Lots of piles to burn
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- Alight
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- Dousing the flames
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- Jim with steel rake
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- Final heap of biochar
Property visit to Kolora, 10 Nov 2019
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- In the conference room
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- Biodiversity plantings
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- Insectarium
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- Aboriginal heritage tree (Euc. obliqua)
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- Wombat enclosure
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- Kangaroo exclosures
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- Ecological thinning
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- Lunch
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- Dam rehabilitation
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- Discussing water sampling
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- Kids had lots of fun
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- Floating island
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- Tania’s rescued wombat
Habitat for wildlife – nestboxes, 24 March 2019
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- Penny checking nestbox with pole camera
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- Miles Geldard with nestbox
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- Installing new boxes
Raptors, 6 May 2018
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- Raptor event with Leigh Valley Hawk and Owl Sanctuary, 6 May 2018
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- A popular event
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- Martin with Yarrum, the Wedge-tailed Eagle
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- Yarrum gets his reward
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- Yarrum the Wedge-tailed Eagle lands
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- Talia with Pickle the Australian Hobby (a Falcon)
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- Talia with hooded Pickle, the Australian Hobby
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- Talia with Skeksi, juvenile Barking Owl
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- Martin with Jedda, the Nankeen Kestrel
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- Bruce Hedge
Winter dinners
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- 2008 Western theme
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- 2008 “cowboys”
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- 2008 Wild West
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- 2010 South America theme
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- 2010 salsa evening
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- 2010 Winter bash
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- 2011 Bollywood winter dinner
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- Bollywood stage
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- Bollywood
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- 2011 Bollywood
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- 2011 Bollywood
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- Bollywood
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- 2011 Bollywood
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- 2011 Bollywood
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- 2012 Austrian themed mid-winter dinner
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- 2012 Bavarian winter dinner
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- 2012 Mid-winter Bavarian dancing
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- 2012 Bavarian winter dinner
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- 2012 Bavarian night
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- 2012 Bavarian winter dinner
Other dinners
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- 2009, 15 Feb, Sunset picnic on Jim Jim
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- 2009 Summer dinner on the hill
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- 2009 view from “Dinner on the hill”
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- Goodbye dinner for Philp and Richard 17/2/2009
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- goodbye party
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- Philip
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- Richard
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- Penny
Hanging Rock plantings
2019
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- Weeding and fencing
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- Well-earned lunch
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- Chewing the fat
2017
2016
2015
2013
2012
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- Hanging Rock planting days …
Member plantings
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- 2005 One of the early member planting days at Sally Stabback’s
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- 2005 planting around the dam at Sally Stabback’s
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- 2005 Spring planting at Judy Don’s
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- 2005 Spring planting at Judy Don’s
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- 2005 Spring planting at Judy Don’s
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- Schepers Dec 2006
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- 2006 lunch after May planting at Sweaney
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- 2006 May at Ken Sweaney’s
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- Starting young
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- Landcare Planting 2006
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- Enviro fund planting day Sept 2007?
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- 2007 Lunch after planting at Andre & Wiggett properties
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- 2009 Mexted planting day
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- 2009 lunch at Mexted planting day
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- 2009 member planting day at Mexted’s
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- 2010 lunch after Harris planting 10 January
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- 2010 Harris planting
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- 2010 Oct corporate planting
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- 2010 Oct Time for a break on a corporate planting
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- Ten years on from first member planting (2004) at Telbach property
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- Telbach’s property 10 years on in 2014
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- Telbach planting 10 years on in 2014
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- Biolink planting on Roberts hillside Sept 2014
The Weedies help roadsides
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- Nov 2023 on Jim Rd
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- Hard work but rewarding, Shelton’s rd Oct 2023
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- 9 Jan 2021 on Jim Rd under the only Snow Gum
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- Weedies end of year meeting 2020
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- Sheltons rd 2018
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- Whitebridge Rd working bee August 2017
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- Morning tea on Whitebridge Rd working bee
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- Morning tea Shelton rd 2016
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- Some usual suspects
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- Roadside walk with politicians 2016
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- Roadsides information event at Newham July 2015
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- Community evening roadsides display
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- Fran on Rochford Rd 2011
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- Weedies doing a Blackberry spray in Palmer Crescent
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- Conquering a Spiraea thicket
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- Weedies removing Paterson’s Curse in Newham
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- Weedies Jim Road 2009
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- Original weedies group 2005
Fauna
Animals – all seen locally
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- Wombat
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- Wombat baby
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- Rescue Wombats
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- Wombat taken by motion camera at night
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- Koala and baby
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- Koala
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- Koala
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- Eastern Grey Kangaroos on East paddock, Hanging Rock
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- Joey kangaroo
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- Feeding time
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- Brushtail Possum spotlit at Hanging Rock 19/04/2008
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- Young Brushtail Possum
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- Ringtailed Possum
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- Tuan/Brush-tailed Phascogale
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- Tuan/Brush-tailed Phascogale
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- Sugar Glider
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- Sugar Glider Female with new baby
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- Sugar Gliders in a Phascogale nest
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- Echidna
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- Echidna
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- Echidna puggle
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- Echidna nosings
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- Little Forest Bat on thumb
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- Lesser Long-eared Bat
Birds
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- Kookaburrras spotlit at Hanging Rock 19/04/2008
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- Roosting Kookaburras, spotlit on Millers Rd 2020
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- Australian Wood Duck (Chenonetta jubata)
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- White-necked Heron
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- Heron
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- Mistletoe Bird
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- White-naped Honeyeater at Hanging Rock
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- Powerful Owls at HangingRock
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- Powerful Owl
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- Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo
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- Owlet Nightjar
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- Flame Robin
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- Eastern Yellow Robin
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- Brolgas
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- White-winged Choughs
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- Baby Magpie
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- Bird hide at NPS
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- Crimson Rosella
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- Superb Fairy-wren
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- Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
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- Martin with Yarrum, the Wedge-tailed Eagle
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- Boobook Owl
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- Tawny Frogmouth
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- Tawny Frogmouth
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- Sacred Kingfisher
Frogs
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- Eastern Banjo Frog (Pobblebonk)
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- Whistling Tree Frog
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- Spotted Marsh Frog
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- Growling Grass Frog
Pests
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- Feral cat (Felis Catus)
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- Feral cat
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- Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes)
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- Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes)
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- Deer (Cervus sp.)
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- European Rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)
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- Rabbit warren
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- Common Myna (Acridotheres tristis)
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- European Wasp
Reptiles
Flora
There are many images linked to species on the page called Local Plants and suppliers