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![Avenue of Honour](../images/places/avenue.jpg)
Avenue of Honour Photo: Jan
Ritchie |
January 2024
A Heritage Road at
North Head? During one of our Foundation's spring wildflower
walks for community members led by Geoff and Judy Lambert, the group
found themselves on the wide path built along the coastal side of
the headland’s dune system. marked on the map as the Avenue of
Honour. The group was surprised to hear one of the participants
exclaim with reverence that they were walking on a ‘Telford road’!
What, you may ask, is a Telford road? And also, what actually is an
Avenue of Honour? |
![Command Post](../images/places/Command%20Post1.jpg)
Command Post |
February 2024
North Head echidna survey; North Head Bush regeneration; Observation
and Command Posts; In the year 1900, Bubonic Plague took several people who were
subsequently buried on North Head. |
![Volunteer weeders](../images/people/Volunteer%20weeders.jpg)
Volunteer weeders
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March
2024
Meeting March 2 with speaker, Mark
Tozer, an ecologist; Volunteers clearing the Frog Hollow;
Information about echidnas; Sericornis frontalis - White-browed
Scrubwren; Committees formed in 1900 to help stamp out the
plague.
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Working on cuttings
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April 2024
Educaton
room; Native Plant volunteers - call in any Tuesday or
Friday morning to visit between 8 and 12; Pampas Grass - pest weed;
Garigal Landcare volunteers have been doing magnificent work
removing Pampas Grass. Banksia
aemula is a valued plant and Nursery volunteers have been
propagating them. |
![Diamond python](../images/fauna/diamond%20p.jpg)
Diamond python
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May
2024 Plantings over 15 years
are providing habitat for echidnas and diamond pythons; Cassia
(or Senna pendula) is a weed shrub on North Head;
Quarantine Station open day is on May 19; More buses on the
North Head route; Ochrogaster lunifers are grey and
hairy caterpillars that travel in a long line nose to tail;
Quarantine events in 1900 - new plague cases
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FT Morgan's headstone
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June 2024
General Meeting June 15 Speaker:
Alana Guest, Anderson Environment &
Planning’s ecologist; 3yr agreement
for space at North Head; Fungi - North Head and Beyond;
Weeding on North Head; Back in time - testing guns on North
Head; Death of Pte F.T. Morgan from influenza in 1918.
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Nursery volunteers
![Jenny working in Nursery](../images/people/Jenny%20in%20Nursery.jpg)
Jenny working in Nursery
![The ova](../images/places/The%20oval.jpg)
The oval where vegetation has been organised to assist
native fauna.
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July 2024 Jenny
Wilson passed away on May 30, 2024 and she will be greatly
missed. This newsletter is a special edition to honour
the many contributions Jenny Wilson has made to the work of
North Head Sanctuary Foundation over many years. Here are some
of the contribtutions she made ..
1. Writing and
distributing monthly newsletters since 2008 portraying the work
of North Head Sanctuary Foundation, events of interest happening
on North Head, flora and fauna photographs, and reporting on
many types of research related to North Head - much of which was
her own research. 2. Being treasurer for North Head Sanctuary
Foundation since 2008. 3. Organising funding for projects.
4. Propagating plants. 5. Revegetating degraded areas. 6.
Providing morning tea for volunteers. 7 Obtaining funding and
then organising hi vis uniforms for volunteers. 8.
Maintaining the membership list. 9. Photographing flora and
fauna on North Head. |
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Featured Flora and Fauna from the newsletters:
2024 March 2024
![Echidna](../images/fauna/Echidna%206.jpg)
Echidna |
March 2024
![White-browed Scrubwren](../images/fauna/White-browed%20Scrubwren.jpg)
White-browed Scrubwren
Photo Ian Evans |
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May
2024 Weed on North Head
![Cassia](../images/flora/weeds/cassia.jpg)
Cassia or Senna pendula
Photo: Ian Evans
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May
2024 Weed on North Head
Cassia (or Senna pendula)
seed pods Photo: Ian Evans
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June 2024
![bracket fungus](../images/flora/bracket%20fungus.jpg)
A bracket fungus |
June
2024
![small fungi](../images/flora/small%20fungi.jpg)
Small fungi |
July
2024
![Tribute to Jenny Wilson](../images/people/Tribute%20to%20Jenny%20Wilson.jpg)
Tribute to Jenny Wilson Photo collage: Ian Evans
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July
2024
![Restored area](../images/places/Restored%20area.jpg) Restored
area opposite Bandicoot Heaven - one of many projects
undertaken by Jenny. |
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