When: 7pm - 8:30pm, Thursday 13th November
Join Merri Creek Management Committee & Friends of Edwardes Lake for a night of frog discovery. Learn to recognise different frog calls and help collect important data for the frog census, including using the Melbourne Water Frog Census app.
When: 10am - 12pm, Sunday 9th November
Explore galgi ngarrk (Craigieburn Grassland) and Curly Sedge Creek, and learn about the rare and threatened species that inhabit this unique location.
When: 10am - 12pm, Sunday 16th November
Discover the stony knolls and gilgai grasslands of galada tamboore.
Bookings essential HERE.
Meeting point: Merri Creek footbridge. Park at Merri Concourse, Campbellfield and walk east to Merri Creek, or park at Whittlesea Gardens, Lalor and walk across the ‘Ned Kelly’ bridge over the freeway. Here's the Google maps pin: https://maps.app.goo.gl/PuSdKUyz7FuV71er9
This event is funded by the Australian Government’s Urban Rivers and Catchments Program
Merri Creek Management Committee Fundraising Subcommittee is undergoing a refresh. We are now looking for a number of creative, organised, and proactive specialist fundraisers to join us to lead and support our ongoing fundraising activities. As a Subcommittee member you’ll work with others and play a key role in planning what our fundraising future looks like and getting your hands dirty organising activities.
Long time Friends of Merri Creek (FoMC) member Jonathan Tickner has created this handy guide to birding along the Merri, and is kindly donating all proceeds to FoMC! You can purchase the book here.
From Jonathan, "(I'm) very pleased to announce the publication of my eBook, all proceeds of which will be donated to FoMC. The illustrated guide helps birders who are starting on their birding journey or who aren’t familiar with the creek, providing maps, detailed descriptions of locations and the birds you may find there at different times of the year. Plus, it is a celebration of the bird life along the creek, through my photography. A printed version of the book can soon be ordered too."
More about the book: A helpful guide to birders who want to explore the Merri Creek, enhance their birding skills and get to know the birds that visit the various habitats along the creek. The booklet includes detailed instructions of how to get to and navigate each location, clear maps, lists of birds that are found at each location at different times of the year, and stunning photographs of birds.
As a child, Doug Frood was, in his own words, “that weird kid” – the one who loved insects, rocks and birds, and spent as much time as possible walking and camping in nature.
“Plants were my specialty,” he says. “Partly because I’m short-sighted and they don’t fly away like birds do. But also, I’ve just always had an affinity for them.”
That early passion for plants grew into a career as a botanical field ecologist. In the late 1980s and early 90s, Doug was working for the Victorian Government when he first spent time surveying grasslands along the Merri Creek.
Doug Frood at Curly Sedge Creek. Photograph by Annette Ruzicka Photography.
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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: fronts of panels (17MB file); backs of panels (9MB file).
The two metre size panels were originally displayed at libraries and other public places throughout the Merri Creek catchment over 16 months until late 2016, in celebration of MCMC's 25th Anniversary.
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