Saturday - Sunday 7-8 March
- Goulburn area - overnight campout/accommodated
This trip over the
Canberra day long
weekend will be a joint outing as part of our continuing links with the Goulburn
Field Naturalists Society (GFNS).
We will be travelling to Goulburn early Saturday afternoon to visit the
Gorman Road Sewage farm. These
ponds are very extensive in size, being very much bigger than those at our local
sewage farm at Fyshwick, and on previous visits the numbers of waterfowl on them
were corresponding higher. These
included many Hardhead, Pink-eared Duck and Grey Teal, with
smaller numbers of Musk Duck, Chestnut Teal, Australasian
Shoveller and Blue-billed Duck.
If time allows we'll also visit other similar spots in the local
area.
Overnight we'll be camping
on one of the GFNS member's property, or those more comfortable with
accommodation can stay in nearby Goulburn.
We're planning to have Saturday night's dinner with our hosts at the
historic Old Brewery, the oldest in Australia still using the
original buildings.
Next morning we will travel
to the Towrang area, which is a few kilometres to the NE of Goulburn in a
picturesque valley on the edge of Sydney's geology. After some bird watching along the
Wollondilly
River we will have
morning tea at one of the Billyrambja Landcare member's property. This will be followed by a short drive
to Bush Bottoms adjoining the Tarlo
River
National
Park. We will be walking along
a route where the vegetation/geology is very varied and Glossy Black-Cockatoos, Spotted
Quail-Thrush, Painted Button-Quail and Lyrebirds are routinely seen, plus
koalas have been reintroduced. The
views are great and the birding and other fauna/flora opportunities will be very
diverse.
We will return to
Canberra on the Sunday
afternoon. If
you're interested please contact Jack Holland (6288 7840 AH or by E-mail on
for more information. Participants are also welcome if they
wish to join in only for the Sunday morning or Saturday afternoon/night
events.
More detailed information
will be circulated to participants towards the end of
February.
