Friends of Jirdarup Bushland
Our Containers for Change ID is C10408106. Thank you.
The Friends of Jirdarup Bushland
The Friends of Jirdarup Bushland is a community group based around Victoria Park. We are dedicated to the preservation of Jirdarup Bushland Precinct which includes Kensington Bushland, George St Reserve and Kent St Sandpit. We organize community events as well as planting and weeding days each year.
Our aim is to help the community connect with nature through protecting, regenerating and revegetating the Jirdarup Bushland Precinct.
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The Bushland
Jirdarup Bushland Precinct, with ‘Bush Forever’ site Kensington Bushland at its heart, is a rare slice of remnant banksia-jarrah woodlands tucked away in Victoria Park. A hidden natural treasure and biodiversity hot spot, Jirdarup means ‘Place of Birds’ in the Nyoongar language. It is home to 62 species of birds, as well as 14 species of reptiles and over 200 plant species. Get creative and immerse yourself in photographing the wealth of Jirdarup’s flora, fauna, and landscapes.
The Bushland entry points are from Etwell Street, George Street and Baron Hay Court. There is free parking, wide pathways, and dog walking is permitted. Disabled access is via Baron-Hay Court entrance. You can take photos from the public access areas in Jirdarup Bushland, but please don’t jump the fences.
‘Images of Jirdarup 2020’ Photography Competition
Thank you to our sponsors for making these great prizes possible. Most of all, thank you to all the competition entrants for helping to share with the wider community just how special the Jirdarup Bushland Precinct is for us all.
Competition Winners Announced
1st Place Flora: Ain't Life Grand(is) - Alison Higgins
2nd Place Flora: The Herd - Mark de Cruz
1st Place Fauna: Teaching the Young One - Christine Chester
2nd Place Fauna: The Sentinel - Emma Jones
1st Place Landscape: Birth in the dying acres - Xinyang Zhao
2nd Place Landscape: Winter Morning - Jon Young
1st Place Junior: Foney Fungi - Sav Noble
2nd Place Junior: Yellow Joy - Ching Yi Lu
1st Place People's Choice: Winter Morning - Jon Young
2nd Place People's Choice: Afternoon Yawn - Kerry Whitworth
The Camera Electronic $100 gift voucher was won by Flora Johnston. Congratulations!
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Can you help us? We’re wondering what our cockatoos are doing. 🤔
Georgina Wilson took these photos last week. This was the second time that she has seen up to 20 Red-tailed Black-Cockatoos on the ground or on rocks near the Etwell Street entrance to the Sandpit, appearing to be eating small stones or sand. 😯
Some birds, like poultry, need shell grit because they cannot chew. Poultry are in the large category of Passerines, which includes more than half of all bird species; these birds have three toes pointing forward and one back to facilitate perching. @sam7clarke at @kaarakin Black Cockatoo Conservation Centre advises that Passerines need grit and Psittacines (parrots) generally do not.
Sometimes animals may also exploit these resources if they are rich in some minerals so, perhaps, this is what is going on here?
Presumably it’s important as the birds are at risk when they are at ground level (the Sandpit is currently fenced off and locked so they are safe from off-lead dogs).
Does anyone know about this behaviour we’re witnessing? We’d love to hear from you. 🙌💚
Photos by Georgina Wilson (photos are cropped as the cockatoos were in the distance).
Post by Fiona
The Friends are caring for Jirdarup by watering and weeding Saturdays and Sundays between 7 and 8.30. Thank you to everyone participating 😀 Any questions? Our email is admin@friendsofjirdarupbushland.org.au or call Vicki (0416 049 550) or Fiona (0404 069997). ☎️
Want to contribute in a different way? Our Containers for Change ID is C10408106 (the QR code is also on our website, www.fojb.org.au). Your kind donation every now and then will help us in our activities, such as running community events and buying plants to support the cockatoos. 🙌 Thanks!
Main photo and post by Fiona, smaller photos by Georgina Wilson. 📸❤️
Last week was our Black-Cockatoo walk and talk event and here are some lovely photos taken by folks attending, either on the day or in the same week. 🤩 Thanks for sharing them with us! 🙌
If you’ve taken photos in Jirdarup and want them shared (we’ll credit you as photographer, of course) then please email them to us at admin@friendsofjirdarupbushland.org.au. Email us if you aren't on our mailing list and we'll keep you informed of future events.
Photos by Rosie Fletcher and Georgina Wilson. 👌 Thanks!
Post by Fiona
Summer’s heat is not over yet! ☀️The young plants will appreciate a drink, so the Friends will be watering again this weekend. Come along during the 7 - 8.30 time slot on Saturday or Sunday to join in the fun. 💦 Many hands make light work … and good company 🙂
Or maybe you prefer weeding and know how to tell veldt grass from our native grasses? Either watering or weeding, it all makes a difference to the bushland! 🌿
Bring your water bottle and we suggest wearing long trousers, a hat, sunscreen, closed shoes, and gloves. We’ve got buckets and weeding tools. Any questions please contact us - Vicki (0416 049 550) or me, Fiona (0404 069997) - or just rock up to the Christmas Tree crossroads in Kensington Bushland.
Post credit: Fiona
Photo credit: @veronicamcphail took this beautiful shot in Jirdarup Bushland of a a singing honeyeater (https://www.birdlife.org.au/bird-profile/singing-honeyeater) on a Banksia attenuata (https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/1800)
What a great turnout at today’s event! ✨Thanks go to @kaarakin Black Cockatoo Conservation Centre, @birdlifewa Western Australia, and all the guides who helped the Friends to run this afternoon’s successful event. 🤩🙌 It was all possible thanks to a @townofvicpark Community Grant.
Rex was the beautiful star of the show. ❤️ We all learnt lots about the different kinds of Black-Cockatoos in two talks and then we broke up into about 7 smaller groups to walk into the Bushland and adjacent Harold Rossiter Reserve (HRR), observing the Red-tailed Black-Cockatoos in action - and there were loads! 😃
Took some great photos at today's event and want to share them? Then please email them to us at admin@friendsofjirdarupbushland.org.au - thanks! 👏🙌
Missed out today but want to see the cockatoos? Then visit the Bushland first thing (like about 7am) and last thing (~5pm); at those times they'll often be enjoying a drink at the waterers (found near the Etwell St entrance to the Bushland and next to the clubrooms in HRR).
Post by Fiona
Photos of Rex (a Baudin's Black-Cockatoo) and Sam Clarke taken today are by @vicki_caulfield. @veronicamcphail took the photos of the Red-tailed Black-Cockatoos in the Bushland recently. Thanks to you both! 👌👏
"Let's go!" by Veronica McPhail Photography taken in Jirdarup Bushland. 📸
Have a great day everyone - we hope your day includes a sighting of the wonderful Black-Cockatoos! 🙌
Post by Fiona
Photo by @veronicamcphail - thanks!
Five years ago was an awful one for Jirdarup; a hot fire tore through much of Kensington Bushland. 🔥😢
The 18 second slideshow in our link reveals the great recovery made in the first three years; 🌱👌 the recovery is due, primarily, to loads of weeding by @townofvicpark staff, the Friends, and others, keeping the fast-growing weeds at bay while the native plants slowly returned. 🙏 Link to our slideshow:
https://www.facebook.com/412357182259702/videos/305583023452854
Here's some lovely sunrise shots of the Bushland taken by Georgina Wilson. 📸 Thanks Georgina!
Post by Fiona
Happy Valentine’s Day! ❤️🥰
The Friends LOVE LOVE LOVE our precious black-cockatoos! 😍
That’s one of the reasons we’ll be pushing for lots of Cockatoo-friendly trees (e.g. banksias, jarrahs and marris) in the revegetation of the Kent Street Sandpit. 👉 Food sources are key to the survival of the endangered Carnaby’s; @birdlifeoz (the nation's largest bird conservation organisation) explains more:
https://www.smh.com.au/national/western-australia/three-years-until-carnaby-s-cockatoo-starvation-starts-birdlife-warns-20210113-p56tuv.html
(see also @birdlifewa)
Post by Fiona (and links below by Klaus)
Photos by Georgina Wilson - taken today. Some shots show the birds just outside the entrance to the Sandpit. Thanks!! 🙌
How you can help:
DBCA
https://www.dpaw.wa.gov.au/plants-and-animals/animals/208-saving-carnaby-s-cockatoo
and @kaarakin
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Acknowledgements
All photographs featured here were taken in Jirdarup Bushland by Robert Audcent (FoJB member and one of the judges).
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Contact Us
Vicki
0416 049 550
Robert
0418 448 887
