2020 Newsletters
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Memorial Walk
January 2020
Manly's 26th Ocean Care Day; Australia's memorial walk; Manly to Bondi Walk; Australian Brush Turkey; Third Cemetery - cases of plague
Indigenous dancers performing on North Head on January 26.
February 2020
General meeting, March 7 at 2pm - speaker Aunty Fran Bodkin; Aboriginal use of Grevillea buxifolia; new botanical greeting cards available in Building 20; Invasion Day ceremony on North Head on January 26; Independent review of Sydney Harbour Federation Trust; Rainfall statistics for North Head; Third Cemetery - plague victims in 1900.
Caper White Butterfly
March 2020
General meeting, March 7 at 2pm - speaker Aunty Fran Bodkin; Native Plant Nursery - plantings and overflowing frog pond during the rain; North Head birdlife; Caper White butterfly; 1939 - Trespasser on North Head military land; Smallpox patients in Quarantine in 1901.
Echidna
April 2020
Education room closed but plant identification link provided; Heliotropium amplexicaule - weed; Nursery on "care and maintenance" only due to Covid-19; Eating the wildlife; Book review of "Healings and Burials at Sydney’s North Head" by Lady Jean Duncan Foley; Third Cemetery - Mr Arthur Reid; Independent Review of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
Planting 2014 Plants in 2020
May 2020
Native Plant Nursery; Planting in 2014 and what the area looks like in 2020; Photos from North Head; Pampas Grass and its negative impacts; Sydney Morning Herald article from 1930 about the Quarantine Station and its carvings.
Female Superb Fairy Wren
June 2020
Education Room (plus front door) repainted; Native Plant Nursery volunteers working but with restrictions due to Covid-19; Birds of North Head; Bird of Paradise Flies; Lantana camara; Back in Time - 1918 Spanish Influenza epidemic
Black cockatoo
July 2020
Native Plant Nursery; Calyptorhynchus funereus (Black Cockatoo); Imperata cylindrica - not a weed, but a taste of history; Back in Time - stories from Newspapers - Neglected Cemetery in1911 and The Plague in 1900
Third Cemetery
August 2020
Nursery; Sands under the microscope; Bitou Bush & Boneseed (Chrysanthemoides monilifera, subspecies rotundata & monilifera); Back in Time - Parks and Playground Movement report from 1935; Third Cemetery - two nurses, who looked after patients with Influenza, contracted the disease and died.
Obelisk
September 2020
Heavy rain caused flooding in the nursery; Pandorea pandorana; Seeding mosses; Obelisk with engravings by soldiers who were quarantined in 2018; Acetosa sagittata or Turkey Rhubarb - a weed
Regrowth after controlled burn
October 2020
Spring in the Nursery; Controlled burn of bushland; Actinotus helianthi flourishing after fire; Reminiscences of growing up on North Head by John Neil Harris
QR Code sign
November 2020
Echidna helps with Asset Protection Zone; Hazard Reduction Burn escapes; Have your say about North Head Sanctuary; $40.6m for Harbour Trust Heritage Sites; Bushland will recover; Net experiments on North Head; Installation of QR Code signs helping people to get to know our plants.
Domino Cuckoo Bee
December 2020
Native Plant Nursery closed from Dec 22 through to Jan 5, 2021; Regrowth after September fire; Domino Cuckoo Bee; Yellow-tailed black cockatoo; Wildlife and the fire; Influenza Pandemic 1919
