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Friends of Bayside 2008 contact list Friends of Balcombe Park Coordinator: Mrs Joan Couzoff 26 Balcombe Park Lane, Beaumaris 3193 Phone: (03) 9589 1060
Friends of Long Hollow Heathland/ Friends of Table Rock Coordinator: Mr Ken Rendell 33 Clonmore Street, Beaumaris 3193 Phone: (03) 9589 4452
Friends of Bay Road Reserve Coordinator: Michael Norris (Abbott Ward Councillor) 5 Deakin Street, Hampton 3188 Phone: (03) 9521 0804
Friends of Gramatan Avenue Heathland Sanctuary Coordinator: Mr Ken Rendell
BRASCA Coordinator: Mrs Janet Ablitt 4A Fairleigh Avenue, Beaumaris 3193 Phone: (03) 9589 6646 Friends of Brighton Dunes Coordinators: Mrs Elizabeth McQuire 34 Normanby Street, Brighton 3186 Phone: (03) 9592 6474 and Ms Jenny Talbot 71 Champion Street, Brighton 3186 Phone: (03) 9592 2109 Friends of Cheltenham Park Coordinator: Mrs Valerie Tyers 65 The Corso, Parkdale 3194 Phone: (03) 9588 0107 Cheltenham Primary School Sanctuary Coordinator: Mr John Waugh PO Box 289, Cheltenham 3192 Phone: (03) 9583 1614 Friends of Donald MacDonald Reserve Coordinators: Mrs Alison and Mr Bill Johnston 4 Wellington Avenue, Beaumaris 3193 Phone: (03) 9589 5459
Friends of Merindah Park and the Urban Forest Coordinator: David Cockburn 72 Spring Street, Sandringham 3191 Phone: (03) 9598 6148 Friends of Native Wildlife Coordinator: Michael Norris (Abbott Ward Councillor) 5 Deakin Street, Hampton 3188 Phone: (03) 9521 0804 Friends of Ricketts Point Landside Coordinator: Mrs Sue Raverty 5 Rosemary Road, Beaumaris 3193 Phone: (03) 9589 2103 Friends of Watkins Bay Coordinator: Mrs Moira Longden 73 Dalgetty Road, Beaumaris 3193 Phone: (03) 9589 2725 Marine Care Inc. Ricketts Point Convenor Phil Stuart 104 Dalgetty Rd, Beaumaris 3193 Phone: (03) 9589 3053 St. Leonards College Conservation Group Coordinator: Ms Joanne Burke 163 South Road, Brighton East 3187 Phone: (03) 9592 2266
Friends of George Street Reserve Coordinator: Dr Val Tarrant 47 Bayview Crescent, Black Rock 3193 Phone: (03) 9598 0554
Disclaimer The views expressed in the Banksia Bulletin are not necessarily those of Bayside City Council or its representatives. Editors Amy Weir, Andrea Davies and Cr Terry O’Brien Copy deadlines 2008 Copy deadlines are set for the first Friday of the month of release: Winter 2008 Friday 20 June 2008 for release mid July Spring 2008 Friday 5 Sept 2008 for release end September Banksia Bulletin is published quarterly by Bayside City Council to service people interested in enjoying and protecting the local environment. Corporate Centre PO Box 27 Royal Avenue SANDRINGHAM VIC 3191 Telephone: 9599 4444 www.bayside.vic.gov.au enquiries@bayside.vic.gov.au Hours of business 8.30am – 5pm Monday – Friday (except public holidays) Printed on 100% recycled paper.
Cover photograph: Musk Lorikeet in red flowering gum in Linacre Road, Hampton by Jane Darling, Bayside Resident
Acknowledgements Thank you to all the people who have contributed to this issue of Banksia Bulletin. The editors encourage people to submit articles, however Bayside City Council reserves the right to edit or omit articles. Artwork, illustrations and photographs can also be submitted to feature in the publication.
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In this ISSUE
From the Mayor
Friends of Brighton Dunes Jenny Talbot Most popular wildlife emergency number to close Wildlife Victoria Inc.
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2008 controlled ecological burn at Balcombe Park Jo Hurse 6-7 Bayside Community Nursery 2007 – 2008 Propagation Season. Carmen Skrobonja
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Tree Valuation – how much are your trees worth? 10 - 11 David Williams Trading away our wilderness illusion Brenn Barcan
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From the newest member of the Bushland Crew Daniel Tobin Seals at Beaumaris
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Who are you really feeding? 16 Amy Weir Possum rivalry at Brighton 17 Brenn Barcan Working Bee Dates
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Early autumn brought with it some much-needed rains to our parks, gardens and bushlands and the colour green is beginning to creep back into many lawns. We are almost ready to begin our planting season and I know many of our Friends’ groups will be braving the cooler weather in the coming months to revegetate many of our bushland and foreshore areas during their regular working bees. Keep an eye out in the Bayside Leader for upcoming community planting days in early winter. We hope for further rain to assist heathland regeneration after the controlled burn at Balcombe Park in early April. The burn site will be eagerly monitored over the coming months to see what surprises come up and we are confident of getting some really good regeneration of indigenous heathland species.
We have some wonderful photographs in this edition of seals in Beaumaris and parrots in red flowering gums in Linacre Road in Hampton, taken by people out and about in Bayside. It is great to see local residents taking an interest in our native fauna and I encourage all readers to submit contributions to the Banksia Bulletin, whether they are drawings, photographs, articles or poems, as I think this is one of the best ways to showcase our magnificent Bayside environment.
Cr Andrew McLorinan Mayor
Another interesting issue that has recently been presented to Council is the Draft Animal Management Plan. The draft plan, which was adopted by Council on 29 April, includes a proposal for Council to agree to consider compulsory cat desexing. This is to address the issue of rising numbers of abandoned cats in local shelters. The Cat Protection Society says about 53,000 cats are received by cat shelters in Victoria each year and of those, about 36,000 are destroyed. Compulsory desexing may assist in reducing these numbers and also have the flow on effect of reducing cat predation on our native bird fauna.
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Friends of Brighton Dunes
The long dry continues, even though it is now officially autumn. Everywhere trees and shrubs, even indigenous ones, are stressed and often dying. Our average rainfall in Victoria, and all southern Australia, has gone down and our average temperature gone up. Climate change is hitting us hard. Through the last six months we have carried water bottles in to the plants we put in last planting season and some of the older ones, and Mark Rasmussen and our excellent Citywide bush crew, have bought in the water tank when possible. Most of the plants put in last planting season will die without proper follow-up (watering) over the next several summers. Many people say plants in bush reserves should not be watered, but we are now caught in a situation where so many plants, indigenous or otherwise, cannot keep pace with the rate of change. Water is life. Our average temperature in Victoria has risen by 1.5 degrees since 1990. This is a colossal change. For the north of Australia the rise is less, but still enough to precipitate more storms and flooding. A few weeks ago Mackay had 625mm of rain in 24 hours, more rain than Melbourne gets in a year. It is thought that most of the coral of the barrier reef, one of the wonders of the planet earth, will die if there is a two degree rise in average temperatures.
Last summer a clump of six or eight tea trees Leptospermum laevigatum died in one area of our reserve. This summer another clump had died. The heat and the dry have gone on too long. Many of the coast wattles Acacia sophorae have died. The magnificent 120-year old bursaria Bursaria spinlosa var. macrophylla is nearly dead. The boobiallas Myoporum insulare are stressed. Surprisingly, the sea-berry salt-bush Rhagodia candolleana is coping well with the drought. It is counterproductive to let trees and shrubs die if it is possible to give them water, because the more trees die in Melbourne the more rain repelling our climate will be. The smog that envelops our city interferes with the formation of rain droplets. The more plants we have the cleaner the air. Our area and other urban bush areas are a very important part of the Australian heritage, as important as historical buildings. Not only do they help with air quality, through them modern city people get a glimpse of what the environment was a mere 200 years ago. Incredibly, rare species are sometimes found – only last year two botanists found Actites megalocarpa on Dendy Street beach.
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This summer, special thanks must go to Kevin Gurry, who never misses a working bee. The work is hard, but our rewards are great. We make a difference. Jenny Talbot Co-Convenor – Friends of the Brighton Dunes (Dr Jim Willis Reserve).
Most popular wildlife emergency number has changed Victoria’s most frequently called emergency wildlife telephone service has changed its number. The impact on Victoria’s wildlife is yet to be assessed.
emergency telephone service that takes more than 20,000 calls per year.
For further information, visit the Wildlife Victoria website at www. wildlifevictoria.org.au
The previous number has changed.
Media Release – 15 April 2008
“While we are concerned that it might take a while for people to get to know our new number, we are concentrating on the positives,” says Wildlife Victoria’s Executive Officer, Sandy Fernee.
The new telephone number to ring for injured wildlife across the State is
“To ensure our vital emergency service is not put in jeopardy, we’re conducting a strategic communications campaign to our 500 members, rural and regional media, veterinary surgeries, essential services like the police and CFA, and local community groups with a new poster, stickers, media statements, an updated website and information packs.”
13 000 WILDLIFE or 13 000 94535.
Wildlife Victoria is the State’s largest non-profit organisation rescuing, rehabilitation and caring for Victoria’s injured native and orphaned wildlife.
“But it’s not the cost that we are most worried about, ‘ she says. “Our greatest fear is that animal lives may be lost in the changeover or as people get used to the new number.”
Operating since 1989, Wildlife Victoria has a team of more than 500 volunteers who care for and rescue injured animals and who operate Wildlife Victoria’s
Wildlife Victoria Inc.
Wildlife Victoria will rent new telecommunications services to support the new number. Sandy Fernee says that while the new system will provide improved records and database capacity, it will be considerably more expensive to operate.
“The very valuable work of Wildlife Victoria will not be compromised. We continue to be dedicated to the care and protection of Australia’s native wildlife, and the fact that we have to change our emergency phone number won’t effect our commitment, our drive or our passion one little bit”.
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2008 controlled ecological burn at Balcombe Park
Citywide Service Solutions and Bayside City Council held a controlled ecological burn on Tuesday 8 April at Balcombe Park Reserve, Beaumaris. Inclement weather did alter the burn schedule as it was originally planned for Thursday 3 April. On the day, barriers were placed across all paths
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leading into the park to ensure that members of the public kept a safe distance away. A number of letter drops were undertaken for all surrounding properties and all emergency services were informed. The area of the burn is approximately 1000 metres squared plus firebreaks.
Site prior to burn
Each year, with the assistance of community groups such as the Friends of Balcombe Park, Council and Citywide conduct an ecological controlled burn in one heathland reserve to stimulate the soil stored seed. The surrounding coast tea tree is cut down and used as the primary source of fuel for the fire.
Site at the height of the burn
Site after the burn
Ecological burns are known to be highly beneficial to many Australian ecosystems. This is particularly relevant to the ‘heathland’ vegetation communities such as Balcombe Park Reserve. In many cases plants from heathland vegetation communities require fire to survive. Without the natural fire regime to stimulate plant cycles these communities can senesce and die, causing a drop in plant species diversity. The main objectives of the controlled burn are to restore areas degraded by invasion of coast tea tree back to the original vegetation communities of sandbelt or sand heath. Changes in the frequency and intensity of fire since European settlement pose one of the most serious threats to the health and preservation of our bushlands. Strong enthusiasm and support come from within the local community for the control burn. The resulting fire is extinguished later the same day and after the autumn/winter rains; the indigenous seedlings emerge attracting the native fauna back to the area. Jo Hurse - Bushland Team Leader Citywide Parkcare
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Bayside Community Nursery 2007 – 2008 Propagation Season. From mid July 2007 to mid February 2008, Erika and I and our nursery volunteers were busy propagating plants. This was to ensure we had stock ready for sale at our Gala Day on Saturday 29 March 2008 and ready for planting by our Bushland and Horticulture crews in May. Most species have germinated well and cuttings have successfully produced roots. The two main propagation methods I use in the nursery are seed (sexual) propagation and cutting (asexual) propagation, with some layering and division techniques (also asexual) used for a few species. In our nursery, sexual propagation is always the favoured method of plant production as plants grown from seed have better genetic diversity. Cuttings produce identical clones of the parent plant, which can have the effect of reducing the gene pool of a population or species. Only those species that we do not yet know how to grow from seed (and I am always experimenting!) are grown from cuttings. By collecting cutting material from as many individuals as possible within a population (ideally at least ten
plants), and from the top, middle and bottom sections of a plant, the problem of genetic diversity loss can at least be minimised. This seasons ‘disaster’ (or challenge!) has been a rat getting into our igloo and digging up seed trays a number of times to get to the tasty Acacia, Bossiaea, Atriplex, Rhagodia and Dianella seeds. The other challenge was the severe storm that came through just before Christmas. We lost many trees along the Reserve Road frontage and suffered some stock loss and damage to the advanced tree irrigation system. Miraculously, the house, igloo and shadehouses were left untouched. As the last of the fallen tea trees are removed from the large garden bed adjacent to the nursery house, an opportunity to create an indigenous display and interpretation planting is revealed! I am currently working on a landscape concept for this area. This season’s joy has been the pleasure of being able to sow seeds from two ‘previouslythought-to-be-extinct-inBayside’ plants! Sticky long-heads, Podotheca angustifolia, was found and identified by Val Stasjic after the wildfire in George Street heathland. The ‘Flora of
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Melbourne’ describes Podotheca as a 20cm – 30cm tall annual daisy with sticky, hairy leaves and narrow, woolly, yellow flower heads in September to October. It also notes that it is presumed extinct within the Melbourne area and that it was last seen in Cheltenham in 1909. Terry, from the Bushland crew, collected minimal seed, allowing most of the seed to naturally disperse and remain on site. I sowed the first lot of seeds on 12 November 2007 and seven seedlings were pricked out by nursery volunteer, Elsie, on 24 January 2008. A second lot of seed was sown on 25 January 2008 but, at the time of writing, no germinants were visible. The description of dune thistle, Actites megalocarpa, in the ‘Flora of Melbourne’ notes that it too, is probably extinct within the Melbourne area and that it was last collected from Brighton Beach in 1887. It is described as a 10cm – 60cm tall, fleshy, rhizomatous perennial with stiff, oblong leaves with prickly teeth along their margins. It has yellow daisy flower heads in September to June and is a plant of primary dune scrub and coastal cliffs. In June 2006, Jo Hurse spotted several small populations of dune thistle at the northern end
This season’s joy has been the pleasure of being able to sow seeds from two ‘previously-thought-to-be-extinct-inBayside’ plants! of Brighton Dunes (Jim Willis Reserve). This year Mark, from the Bushland crew, collected a small amount of seed from a number of plants. This seed was sown on 25 January 2008 and I am excited to report that by 7 February 2008, 20 small seedlings had germinated!
Carmen Skrobonja (left) and Erika Anderson with cutting trays
It is so rewarding to look around and see the nursery almost full to capacity with all our indigenous plants. It is also reassuring to consider that these plants, with their inherent habitat, diversity conservation and ecological benefits, will all find their way into our local private and public landscapes. Carmen Skrobonja Nursery Supervisor Citywide Parkcare
Carmen and Erika in “the igloo” with seedling trays
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Tree Valuation – how much are your trees worth? It is hard to assign a dollar value to an object that, in most cases, cannot be bought or sold and when often the benefits are impossible or extremely difficult to quantify. So why assign a dollar value to trees at all? Won’t this just reduce an important natural asset to a commodity that the rich can buy and sell as they please? The use of a tree valuation system is all about achieving equity in the decision-making process, particularly as it relates to development and Council management. A common claim by planning permit applicants is that the redesigning of a structure is not in proportion to the value of retaining the street tree, or any tree for that matter. If the tree had a recognised value that was equal to or in excess of the redesign costs then a solution that retains the tree becomes more likely. The ultimate aim being that knowing the costs associated with requesting the removal of a street tree the designer or architect will consider the Council asset prior to starting the design process. Another example relates to Council’s own management expenditure. Older trees in urban areas will slowly decline in health resulting in an escalation in management costs and the hazard associated with the tree. In a perfect world it would be ideal to leave trees in situ until they are dead and perhaps
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long after, but unfortunately Council’s increasing exposure to liability claims will progressively decrease the level of risk Council is prepared to accept. Whilst not the sole determinant, a tree valuation system can allow an objective measure of when the costs to reduce the risk presented by a declining tree start to become out of proportion with the value of that tree. So how can a tree be given a dollar value? As was already mentioned, nearly all the benefits and costs associated with a tree are extremely difficult to assess. There are a variety of options that could be taken to calculate the dollar value of a tree, from its value as a wood product through to an exhaustive analysis of the benefits and costs. At one end the calculation is likely to drastically undervalue the tree and at the other extreme the calculation is likely to cost the value of the tree. A system of valuation should achieve two things: 1. Provide a consistent and repeatable methodology to establish the value of a tree. 2. Reflect community opinion of the importance of trees in our landscape.
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As part of the recent review of the Street Tree Strategy it was proposed that a valuation method be adopted. This method is based upon the projected maintenance costs over the life of the tree and modified by its current amenity, health, structure, origin and significance.
development applications requesting removal of a Council tree and maintenance options for Council’s tree asset. It is important to realise that there are other criteria in addition to the value that are used when reaching a decision on when a tree can be removed.
The proposed method aims to provide a quick estimate of the replacement cost of a tree to be used when assessing
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Council’s street tree asset is an invaluable tool. Perhaps next time you are walking through Bayside’s leafy streets, maybe it’s worth thinking about how much a tree is worth to you. David Williams Arboriculture Officer, Bayside City Council
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Trading away our wilderness illusion In 1939, the Sydney-based anthropologist and pre-historian, Frederick David McCarthy, wrote a series of articles which he called ‘Trade in Aboriginal Australia, and ‘Trade relationships with Torres Strait, New Guinea and Malaya.’ The articles included marvellous maps which illustrate this Australiawide and international activity by Aboriginal people. These maps shatter the wilderness illusion of many of non-Aboriginal Australians. They also shatter the myth of Australian isolation epitomised in Geoffrey Blainey’s book ‘The Tyranny of Distance – How Distance Shaped Australian History.’ McCarthy’s revelations were included in the September and November editions of ‘Oceania’, a journal published in September and November 1939 by the Australian Museum in Sydney. The opening paragraph of McCarthy’s first article says: Although the importance of barter in Australian Aboriginal culture has always been recognised, adequate records of its nature in various parts of the continent have not, unfortunately been made. For those interested in cultural problems, such as origins and diffusion of traits, and for museums, it is important to know whether a specimen was or is made in the
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locality in which it was collected, or whether it was traded there from elsewhere; for those studying the structure of Australian society it is important to know the form of all social mechanisms in local areas. For those reasons, those in contact with the Aborigines in any part of Australia should record all data relating to barter and exchange. In view of the fact that few diagrams have been published of the routes upon which raw materials and finished products travel from their place of origin, I have in this study tried to correlate the data available in a diagrammatic form, with the object of ascertaining the extent of the interchange of articles and other traits between local groups and tribes, and, by linking up distant connections, to ascertain the relationships between trade routes and cultural trends, and where possible, migration routes. McCarthy’s articles are important but not easy to read or understand. The simplest way to convey his information is to use the many maps and the notes
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under them. The maps were not drawn by McCarthy, but by Miss E Bramell, who McCarthy acknowledges; …’for the series of difficult maps she has so carefully preserved’. He also acknowledges the help of Leo Austin L Clauert, D Mahoney, CC Teale, NB Tindale, Professor AP Elkin and Dr Phyliss Kaberry. Editor’s note: Copies of the maps were not able to be reproduced here but may be seen in copies of the following journal(s) – References: ‘Trade in Aboriginal Australia’ and ‘Trade Relationships with Torres Strait, New Guinea and Malaya’ by Frederick David McCarthy Oceania Journal (Sept and Nov 1939) published by the Australian Museum, Sydney
Brenn Barcan Local Resident
From the newest member of the Bushland Crew For those of you that haven’t met me already my name is Dan Tobin and I have only recently joined the Bushland Crew. I will give a brief history of what I was doing before joining the team. My background prior to Citywide was in landscape design and construction. I have been involved in landscaping for many years and completed many jobs both here and overseas in the UK and Canada. One of my projects was working on a huge man-made lake and bio-zone in Reading, England. Upon arriving back from my travels overseas I found myself working for Citywide at the Cheltenham depot where I met a great bunch of people. There was a great feeling about the way everyone interacted. A few months later an internal position came up on the Bushland crew and I knew I had to apply for it! It was a fantastic opportunity to learn more about the indigenous plant species of the Bayside area.
previous control burns. I have been working with Friends of the Urban Forest and Merindah Park and BRASCA (Black Rock and Sandringham Conservation Association). I have met many enthusiastic ‘Friends’ group members and I look forward to working with Friends of Balcombe Park in the near future.
Daniel Tobin Bushland Crew Citywide Parkcare
An interesting project we have been working on is the Balcombe Park controlled ecological burn. We are confident the regeneration will be similar to the George St wildfire and
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Seals at Beaumaris During a recent site visit to the Beaumaris cliffs, some very furry sunbakers were spotted making the most of a beautiful sunny autumn morning. These three spent the day basking on the sunny rocks and enjoying the view of Port Phillip Bay, and seemed quite uninterested in photographer David Wood, who was able to take these great shots.
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Who are you really feeding? A new educational program in Bayside is urging foreshore visitors to place their food litter in the bin to help stop feeding wild animals and to reduce pest animals visiting the foreshore. The ‘Who are you really feeding?’ campaign aims to educate people not to litter their food leftovers along the foreshore. Leaving uneaten fish and chips or sandwiches for the local animals might seem like a nice idea, but feeding wildlife can have a detrimental effect on the balance and health of the range of animals that live in our foreshore parks. Food litter also attracts pest animals such as rodents and pigeons that carry diseases and
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compete for habitat and food with the native wildlife. A rodent control program was trialled in early 2007, which was successful in eliminating some unwanted rodent visitors along the Sandringham foreshore, but there were sightings during the recent summer period. Council will continue targeted rodents baiting along the Sandringham foreshore, but really need the support of the community to help eliminate food sources.
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Posters have been placed in take away food shops in Sandringham Village and small signs have also been installed on picnic tables and BBQs on the foreshore at Sandringham to help educate visitors. If you are interested in more information regarding this program, please contact Bayside City Council’s Waste Education Officer on (03) 9599 4717.
Amy Weir Environment Research Officer
Possum rivalry at Brighton Until 2007 the only possums I had seen in the suburbs, or in the bush, were ringtails. They could be seen (at night) walking on powerlines or fences and roofs, or squashed flat on roads, or electrocuted and found dead on footpaths. Sometimes their fox-gutted carcasses could be seen along the foreshore south of Brighton Baths, or in front gardens. They could be heard thundering on our roofs, in our ceilings (and we could see the stains they left), or ‘snoring’ away. Then in June 2007 my patience was rewarded. I saw a brushtail at night, of course on a high paling fence, and ‘playing possum’ while I watched. Things got better and better. Often two could be seen together (presumably male and female). Then late one night I saw two adults and a small one on the ground under a tree, while the infant moved around slowly. Brushtail possums are not vegetarians. They also eat meat. A possum-expert friend told me he thought that a brushtail could successfully take on a cat! All sightings were ringtails or brushtails. Once I saw my first brushtail I didn’t see any ringtails. My possum-expert friend said they knew that discretion was the better part of valour. Then about 10pm on Saturday 15 March this year I saw two brushtails on a high paling fence feeding on a lillypilly. About seven hours later (at 5am) I saw two ringtails just sitting on the same fence.
One night I was awoken by a loud noise, which sounded like a sledgehammer hitting an iron girder. It sounded as if it was coming from the street, where construction works had been proceeding for months. I went out to the street in my dressing gown but saw nothing. After searching with a torch, I saw a brushtail making the noise in a tree next door. It stopped when I shone the torch on it, but it did not retreat. What an amazing noise! Footnote: The 1979 edition of the ‘Australian Encyclopedia’ says: ‘Economics and Conservation’. The brushtail had the unenviable reputation of providing the bestknown possum skins in the world’s markets’…’in 1996 more that 4,000,000 brushtail skins were marketed in London and New York. In QLD in 1919 the number of skins officially recorded was 2,500,000; in 1923 it was 1,200,000. During the open season in New South Wales, in 1931-2 more than 1,000,000 skins were exported. Official figures fall short of the real total’. The ‘Australian Encyclopedia’ doesn’t quote figures for Victoria, or mention Aboriginal people and the importance of possums to them for food, clothing, identity and survival.
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References: ‘Possums as food, clothing, tools, maps, history and identity for Aboriginal people’. Banksia Bulletin Winter 2006 ‘Possums and the self sufficiency of Aboriginal people’. Banksia Bulletin, Winter 2007. Both have been written by me. Also see: ‘The Life of Marsupials’ by Hugh Tyndale Biscoe. Held by Brighton Library. Bayside Libraries have bound copies of Banksia Bulletin.
Brenn Barcan Local resident
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Friends of Bayside
Working Bee times for June to August 2008 Time/Day
JUNE
JULY
AUGUST
Balcombe Park
Last Sunday 10am - noon
28th
27th
31st
Bay Rd
2nd Saturday 10am - noon
7th
12th
9th
BRASCA
Contact Janet Ablitt ph 9589 6646
Brighton Dunes
Tuesdays 8am - 10am
3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th
1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th
5th, 12th, 19th, 26th
Cheltenham Park
1st Sunday 10am - noon
1st
6th
3rd
Cheltenham Primary
Contact school 9583 1614
19th
24th
Donald MacDonald
1st Sunday 10am - noon
1st
6th
3rd
George St
3rd Sunday 10am - noon
15th
6th
3rd
Gramatan
1st Sunday 1 - 3pm
1st
6th
3rd
Long Hollow
Last Sunday 1pm - 3pm
29th
27th
31st
Friends of Native Wildlife - Contact M. Norris*
1st Saturday 9.30am
Ricketts Point Landside
3rd Tuesday 1pm - 3pm
17th
15th
19th
Table Rock
Last Tuesday 12.30pm - 2.30pm
24th
29th
26th
Watkins Bay
Last Wednesday 1pm - 3pm
25th
30th
27th
Contact
Gardenvale Primary School Brigitta Suendermann ph. 9530 0328
Watkins Bay
Contact Katrine Lee ph. 9555 5250
*Contact Michael Norris for site details on (03) 9521 0804
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