Fauna
Local kids build homes for wildlife
Students from Yea High School and the Kinglake Scouts have been building nest boxes for wildlife which we have been installing on properties in Flowerdale, Junction Hill and Kinglake. Due to the loss of many hollow bearing trees in the area as a result of the fires, we are providing artificial homes for the animals…
Read MoreKinross Farm Landcare Project
With funding provided by CSL the UGLN has been able to implement a great environmental project at Kinross Farm in Kinglake West. With the support and assistance of Kinross Farm we have installed stock exclusion fencing around over 5ha of remnant vegetation, carried out weed control and planted over 1200 trees and shrubs. Recent fauna…
Read MoreChrist Church Grammar School
On Friday 15th July students from Christ Church Grammar School in South Yarra returned to Kinglake to volunteer again with the UGLN fire recovery program.This time the students takled a variety of diferent tasks. They started the day installing nest boxes at a local landcare members property. After lunch at the local bakery they got…
Read MoreFocus On Fauna
These photo’s were take on a property at Kinglake West on the Pheasant Creek using remote sensor cameras.It is part of UGLN’s ‘Focus On Fauna’ fire recovery program which is being carried out in the Strath Creek and Flowerdale area by David Wakefield from Strath Creek Landcare Group and also the Kinglake Ranges with assistance…
Read MoreStrath Creek Nest Boxes
While checking nest boxes provided by the UGLN fire recovery program David and Laurie Wakefield from the Strath Creek Landcare Group were delighted to find a Brush-tailed Phascogale curled up in one of the boxes. Phascogales would have been hit hard by the Black Saturday fires, due to loss of tree hollows, ground cover and…
Read MorePhascogale found!
While checking nest boxes the other day, we were delighted to find a Brush-tailed Phascogale (or Tuan) curled up in one of the boxes. This particular home-made box has been up for a number of years, and the phascogale is the first known inhabitant. Phascogales need hollows for shelter and nesting. Due to the large-scale…
Read MoreScouts Kinglake West Nest Box Project
The Kinglake Scouts recently checked the Rotary built nest boxes that they installed at a property on the King Parrot Creek in November 2009. Using the UGLN nest box inspection camera the Scouts checked nine nest boxes. One had what appeared to be a Sugar Glider nest but the rest were uninhabited. The Scouts GPS’d…
Read MoreNew Discovery in The Cathedral Ranges
This is the gorgeous little White Footed Dunnart (Sminthopsis leucopus) that’s recently been found in the Cathedral Ranges (since the fires) and the first-ever record of this species in that district.* Though it’s known to occur in the catchments of the Big, Acheron & Yea Rivers, these animals are small, rarely seen and easily confused…
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