This is a collection of recent copies of the 'Next Day' email messages sent out by our Volunteer Coordinator, Karen Colgan, before each weekend volunteer session.
The text of most recent one is shown below. Recent ones can be accessed by the index on the right
Whatitri Woolly nightshades blitzed!
Huge thanks to the 19 boys from Kelston High School Services Academy, their master Ngahiwi Walker and teacher John Staniland who together with an army of volunteers Ralph and Lyndell Lyon, Anne Brow, Adnan, Yvonne Shadbolt, Rosemary Stagg, Brian Donoghue, Andy Warneford, Caroline and Antonin Dedeigo, cut and vigilanted a very large number of woolly nightshade trees in the bush margins of the Whatitiri yesterday.
The Next Day is this Sun 25th meeting at 7am, 9.30am or 9.45am
*7am Kaka Survey Day- a snap-shot of Kaka presence on the mainland. Click here for a document explaining how you can help, wherever you are, from Waikato to Northland.
You are invited to meet at the rangers station at 7am and take the short walk to the top of the golf course to listen for kaka and maybe also our Kokako still together between the Golfcourse, the ACW and in the Anderson block.
Hot chocolate and bread/toast for afters. Bring your favourite spread
*9.30am. Meet Anne Brow ARC Biosecurity Officer - West Auckland.
Anne has kindly offered to run a short vigilant workshop to enable more volunteers to use this pesticide on invaders such as ginger and woolly nightshade. Questions welcome
*9.45am-1pm. Help our native bush on L3 which is struggling against invasive ginger.
This is time well spent in a regenerating area of our bush much loved by the smaller birds such as warblers, tomtits and whiteheads. Wear gumboots, and bring a spade, trowel and secateurs
Advance notice
Rat monitoring August Sat 7th and Sun 8th
