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Birds in Mt Wilson/Mt Irvine

 

Australian brush turkey

 

Brown quail

 

Ducks and swans

Australian wood duck

 

Australasian grebe

 

Australasian darter

 

Herons and egrets

White-necked heron

 

Ibises and spoonbills

Straw-necked ibis

 

Masked lapwing

 

Eagles, kites and goshawks

Brown goshawk

Grey goshawk

Wedge-tailed eagle

 

Pigeons and doves

White-headed pigeon

Brown cuckoo dove

Common bronzewing

Brush bronzewing

Crested pigeon

Bar-shouldered dove

Wonga pigeon

 

Cockatoos

Yellow-tailed black cockatoo

Gang-gang cockatoo

 

Parrots and lorikeets

Galah

Rainbow lorikeet

Australian king parrot

Crimson rosella

Eastern rosella

 

 

Cuckoos

Fan-tailed cuckoo

Shining bronze-cuckoo

Horsfield’s bronze-cuckoo

Channel-billed cuckoo

 

Owls

Powerful owl

Southern boobook

Sooty owl

Eastern barn owl

 

Frogmouths and nightjars

Tawny frogmouth

 

Kingfishers

Azure kingfisher

Laughing kookaburra

 

Superb lyrebird

 

Treecreepers

White-throated treecreeper

Red-browed treecreeper

 

Fairy-wrens

Superb fairy-wren

Variegated fairy-wren

 

Pardalotes

Spotted pardalote

 

Scrubwrens, thornbills and gerygones

Pilotbird

Rockwarbler

Yellow-throated scrubwren

White-browed scrubwren

Large-billed scrubwren

Brown gerygone

Brown thornbill

Striated thornbill

 

Honeyeaters

Red wattlebird

Little wattlebird

Bell miner

Lewin’s honeyeater

Yellow-faced honeyeater

White-eared honeyeater

White-naped honeyeater

Crescent honeyeater

New Holland honeyeater

Tawny-crowned honeyeater

Eastern spinebill

Jacky winter

 

Australian robins

Scarlet robin

Red-capped robin

Flame robin

Rose robin

Eastern yellow robin

 

Eastern whipbird

 

Whistlers and allies

Golden whistler

Grey shrike-thrush

Crested shrike-tit

Black-faced monarch

 

Fantails

Grey fantail

Rufous fantail

Willie wagtail

 

Cuckoo-shrikes

Black-faced cuckoo-shrike

 

Currawongs and allies

Grey butcherbird

Pied butcherbird

Pied currawong

Grey currawong

Australian magpie

 

 

Ravens and crows

Australian raven

 

White-winged chough

 

Satin bowerbird

 

Finches

Red-browed finch

 

Mistletoebird

 

Swallows and martins

Welcome swallow

Tree martin

Fairy martin

 

Songlarks

Rufous songlark

Brown songlark

 

Silvereye

 

Bassian thrush

 

Introduced birds

Red-whiskered bulbul

Common blackbird

Common starling

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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Following all emergencies people are impacted and need support. This can be in the form of psychological or social support. Contact details are available below, but if you need someone to talk to or are feeling anxious or depressed then please contact one of the organisations below.

 

 


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Flowering from November on The Mounts is Iris foetidissima also known as “Stinking Iris” or “Roast Beef Plant” after its rather unpleasant fragrance when cut or bruised.

It is a clump-forming evergreen herb to 100 cm, with tough rhizomes immediately below the soil surface.

The flowers are 5–7 cm in diameter and are dull purplish-grey tinged with yellow. More common in Australia is the yellow flowered variant that is often naturalised.  You will find both varieties flowering in Mt Wilson currently. 

At maturity each seed capsule splits into three, each with two rows of round orange seeds of 5 mm diameter, these can persist for several months.

Despite the Royal Horticultural Society giving Iris foetidissima their prestigious Award of Garden Merit. The plant is clearly becoming a problem in Mt Wilson, most notably in and around Church Lane.  Each plant grows rapidly and seeds readily and is dispersed by birds. Mature stands will easily smother a garden bed and become extremely difficult to remove.

 

There are three options to manage this plant:

  1. If you wish to retain any plants, systematically remove any seed capsules before the seeds emerge.
  2. To remove the plants, the most effective way is to mattock out the rhizomes (juvenile plants can usually be removed by hand.
  3. Iris foetidissima will respond to Glyphosate (RoundupTM) but the leaves will need to be soaked and secondary spraying may be required.