Our Merri Creek Nest Box Pilot Project has had a busy first year. Thirty-two nest boxes and log hollows for small birds and micro bats were attached to tall eucalypts in Merri Park, Northcote. Community members and students enthusiastically participated in seven monitoring events held between November 2019 and February 2020. Some events were held in the daytime and others in the evening.
The Year 1 Summary Report documents the project so far, the lessons learnt, interesting observations and the next steps for the project. We hope to start community monitoring events again in Spring, in time for nesting birds.
This project was funded by generopus community donations to the Merri Creek Environment Fund and a grant from the Arthur and Hazel Bruce Bequest.
See a web version of these fabulous panels which celebrate the outstanding community achievement since 1975 in transforming Merri Creek from a weed-smothered drain to a much-loved waterway running through a bushland corridor: 
Merri Creek Management Committee. 2 Lee St, East Brunswick, Victoria, Australia 3057 