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Listen to the Wild: 2 sessions with Andrew Scheoch

In the first session (November 5) Andrew will present ‘beautiful and fascinating recordings from wild places around the world’. Andrew gave a similar presentation in the Castlemaine library earlier this year but this time he will concentrate more on our local birdlife, … Continue reading

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Family Bush Walk: 25 October 2015

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This year’s Camp Out on the Mount

 The Camp Out on the Mount is on again next weekend, 17-18 October.  As well as the Pine Purge on Saturday there are lots of other activities. To find out more click on the poster to the left. There is also more information … Continue reading

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Powerful Owl Presentation

Newstead residents and readers of the Natural Newstead blog may be familiar with the spectacular and rare Powerful Owls, which have very successfully raised young down by the Loddon River. But what are the lives of these magnificent nocturnal hunters … Continue reading

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Fryers Ridge walk

Noel Young sent us this report on the September FOBIF walk: True to its name the Wattle track was rich with flowering wattles. In pleasantly mild conditions, walkers covered nine and a half kilometers through a variety of bush with … Continue reading

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