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Himalayan Honeysuckle invades sensitive moist bushland such as Blue Mountains swamps where it forms thickets and dense shade, displacing native vegetation. 

A deciduous multi-stemmed shrub to 3 m high. Stems are erect, hollow and bamboo-like. A native of the Himalayas. Leycesteria is a vigorous arching shrub with large, soft green leaves and drooping panicles of white flowers which are followed by clusters of shining dark purple berries spread in December and January by the birds. These plants grow well in the semi-shade of the rainforest.

Fruits are ovoid fleshy berries, dark crimson when ripe. Each fruit contains more than 100 small seeds.

Control

  • The plant should be fully and continuously suppressed and destroyed
  • Dig out, or cut off and poison every stem.
  • Spray large areas November to March.

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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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Help By Monitoring Fire Trail Condition While Walking

In late 2021 David Howell, Senior Deputy Captain encouraged the Brigade members and the community to walk fire trails in their own time and report any hazards, such as fallen trees, branches or other obstacles which might impede the safe passage of fire trucks or firefighters. As a result, he has developed a system to allow each person to report any problems located on any trail into a spreadsheet.

 

To access this spreadsheet please use this link  and bookmark or save it for future use. You may find you will be asked for a sign in, just click on the link again.

 

There are some considerations to contemplate which are important. You have the option of walking trails taking normal personal responsibility and then reporting anything you find which causes concern by using the link above to access the Fire Trails spreadsheet and enter a brief description of any concerns observed.

 

Or, if you are a Brigade member, you can regard this as a Brigade task attracting the usual RFS protections when we undertake RFS undertakings. If you wish to regard it as a Brigade task:

  1. You must sign in on the attendance book at the Mt Wilson or Mt Irvine Station. Members should know how to access the building from previous briefings. If in doubt, please ask a senior officer.
  2. Contact David Howell on (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), or phone 4756-2091 or 0418 771 664 providing the following details:
    1. When you’re heading off - advising him what trail you’re walking, start time and estimated finish time, who’s in your party.
    2. If you see a fallen tree, branch or other hazard/obstacle make a note, take photos if you can and make a record of the location of the hazard/obstacle(s).
    3. Importantly, when you complete your walk, call or text David to let him know that you’ve safely completed your tasking.
  3. Use the link to access the Fire Trails spreadsheet and enter a brief description of any concerns observed.

 

If you see a tree or branch over the trail, please don’t attempt to remove it unless it is small and light enough to do so safely by hand. Once you report any large tree hazard, the Brigade will arrange for a member certified to use a chainsaw to remove it or if very large, have Council remove it.

 

One suggestion made was that members might like to monitor a particular fire trail. Even though this means we’ll have some regular fire trail walkers, that doesn’t mean that others can’t use those trails.  We encourage members and the community to familiarise themselves with ALL fire trails. The Brigade would like all fire trails to be monitored at regular intervals – say, 6-8 weeks to ensure that we have current information 

 

Any specific questions on this type of tasking please contact David or another senior officer.