The next day is Sun 11th July meeting at 9.30am the rangers station and we will continue to target the woolly nightshades on Ld with vigilant. The larger plants can be ring-barked and the Vigilant applied in this way. We can get access from the Long Rd end of the Whitatiri to avoid getting wet feet crossing the stream.
Bring handsaws and long gloves if you have them. Wear protective clothing for any gorse
Help needed for Tues 20th July with the Kelston boys. Meeting at 10am at the rangers station
Several volunteers are needed to apply vigilant whilst the boys deal to the Woolly Nightshade on the retired ARC farms and adjacent bush
Kokako
From Laurence Béchet: "Our two birds seem definitively want to settle down between the Golf course and the Auckland City Walk, with some incursion into the Anderson block. That's very good news."
Unsung Heroes
The long R lines from R8 have been mainly done by Grant Charleston who has done a terrific job. He has cleared them, repositioned triangles, and taken GPS readings plus found a number of robins along the way.
Martyn Spear is leading an initiative on the Scenic Dr to produce a buffer zone of protection involving the property owners there and has also chimed in with some baiting
Monthly Meeting of Waitakere Forest &Bird:
Thursday 15 July 2010 -RNZFB Monthly Meeting at Kelston Community Centre, Activity Room 2. Time: 7.30pm
Ken Catt, a Life Member of Forest & Bird and former Branch President and Secretary of the Waitakere Branch recently returned from Spitzbergen,Norway after an 11 day Arctic cruise.
Ken will give a 40 minute video presentation and commentary featuring polar bears, seals, whales, walrus and other Arctic wildlife as well as a historical commentary on an attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon.
Karen