Birdsland Masterplan - with pretty colours!

Thanks to Gavin Prentice from the Shire, I now have a nice, shiny, official colour copy of the draft masterplan for the Birdsland Reserve.

Click the cover to view the document in Google Drive :)

Birdsland Discovery Day Announced!

I noticed today that Cr. Samantha Dunn has announced the Birdsland Discovery Day on her blog, so I'm presuming that this is the formal date.

Anyhoo... Birdsland Discovery Day is due to take place on Sunday the 9th of September from 11am to 3pm and there's a link to a scanned poster here, thanks to Sam.



It looks like being a fantastic day out and, if it's as successful as the Mini-Beasts Festival was, it's sure to be a great family day.

I will no doubt enjoy it from the nursery where I hope to be as busy as last time!

Perhaps I will see you there? :)

Birdsland Reserve

This area of riparian bushland off McNicol Road in Belgrave Heights is important both from a community and an environmental point of view.

On occasion referred to as "the lungs of Belgrave", Birdsland Reserve is a 75 hectare reserved managed by the Yarra Ranges Council and abuts a further 36 hectares that is currently managed by Melbourne Water.  This latter area is referred to officially as the Monbulk Creek Retarding Basin, but to us locals the whole area is known simply as Birdsland.

Unless you have under 5's in your family, in which case it may be fondly known as Duckland :)

"What? Is that it?!"