Three Endangered Ecological Communities at the Carey Bay Wetlands have received much-needed respite from weed invasion to celebrate World Wetlands Day 2013.
We’ll be continuing the celebration throughout February with landcaring at Carey Bay Wetlands happening every Thursday and on Saturday 23rd February 10am-1pm.
We’re thrilled that the Wetlands have been the first site for bush regeneration work to commence under the Trust funded TSLS project
A dozen bush regenerators and landcarers over two days have already tackled some of the Privet, Lantana and Asparagus Fern whose seeds are often spread by birds. They also took on the garden escapes Buffalo grass and Morning Glory, which found their way in through dumped garden waste.
The Trumpet Creeper, Campsis, was given special attention. It is the biggest threat to this Wetland, just when we think it’s gone it comes back even more than before. We’re hoping that by having professional bush regenerators to deal with it we can get rid of it once and for all.
Before the wetland weeding started the plants were surveyed so that the weeds could be targeted and their density diminished.
We also surveyed the site for birds and found out that of all the bushland along the Coal Point peninsula the Carey Bay Wetlands has the greatest bird diversity, with 22 species being recorded, a third more than any other location along the peninsula.
What was even more special was that a Satin Bowerbird, with the an abundance of blue bits calls the Wetlands home and Yellow Thornbill was sighted in the area that has benefitted from 6 years of community plantings.
If you’d like to learn about the Wetlands, capture the beauty by camera and see various weed treatments demonstrated, the Saturday session on 23/2/13 will have professional bush regenerators on hand and morning tea provided.
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