Barmup Kangas/Bluff Rock Bushcarers

24/10/2026

20/10/2026

🎆Merry 4th Birdy Birthday to Us! 🌱🎂🌳

Huge Thankyou to All who have been involved over the years, helping us along the way! 🙏🧤🥾🥾💚

We’re just getting to Kindy with our knowledge of how to care for our little patch! But we’ll keep on learning and trying…

A cheery band of old & new rocked up for some solid w**d & waste warrioring. Over 26 collective hours by 12 local legends, alongside Kynan from The City of Albany. More watsonia tackled and k**e pulled back from intact bush near main track. Other odd w**ds are still popping up like bleeding heart, SGW, & pittosporum –easily pulled out while young. The more difficult to extract asparagus fern and bridal creeper are also lurking.

Our younguns continue to be Rubbish Rockstars!!

🎆We were super-spoilt & surprised to have not one, but two scrumptious Birthday Cakes created for us!!! Wow! A very celebratory morning tea was enthusiastically scoffed! Many Thanks to Marg & Denyse for the extra special treats, and all other contributors! 🙏🎂💚

We also shared how to get involved in BirdLife Western Australia Great Aussie Bird Count week (links in previous post). We did the short 20 minute survey – with our lovely resident magpies joining us, among other feathered friends. It’s a very simple app to navigate & a heartening, gentle way to connect with your local patch (any yard, park, lunch spot). So join in from wherever you are!

16/10/2026

🌳Hi Birders & Bushcarers! Our 4th Birthday 🎂 Busybee will celebrate with an intro & count for Birdlife's 🐦Aussie Bird Count! This Sunday 18/10, 10-12ish, meet at Collingwood Rd/David St tables. 🧤🥾

Wildflowers are still blossoming marvellously - check them out!

Also on the menu:

- pull back k**e from good bush near trail

- repotting tubestock

- for the nimble: Watsonias lurking in crevices

- follow your own TLC project

For more info:
https://aussiebirdcount.org.au/register-for-the-aussie-bird-count/

Feel free to share a little morning tea - always welcome & appreciated, but never obligated 🍉🥝🧁🫖😊

Come for as little or long as you feel.

🐞🌱🥾💚🌳

26/09/2026

Well done to all advocates involved!👏👏👏

https://www.facebook.com/100064653704152/posts/1504451388386637/

23/09/2026

A gentle, cheerful Sunday morning tending to our beautiful bushland and communing with fabulous folk! It's always a delight and surprise as to who may turn up with the ebbs and flows of our community's lives - always seems to feel just right!

Reveg is looking good & a few nimble Watsonia Warriors tackled the hard to reach crevices too as they keep sneaking up! Legends!

17/09/2026

🌱Hi Bushcarers! Spring Busybee this Sunday 20/9, 10-12ish, meet at Collingwood Rd/David St tables. 🧤🥾

Admire the stunning Spring flowers now out around the Reserve: purple tree hoveas, scarlet runners, yellow cutleaf hibertias, various acacias, hardenbergias, drumsticks, southern cross & many more!

At our last gathering our mighty w**d warriors knocked off heaps of sneaky watsonias from the Rock crevices, along with various other errant invaders, & a Reserve cleanup. Big Thanks to Kynan at The City of Albany Reserves for ongoing support.

On the menu:

- check on our recent plantings

- some TLC w**ding

- follow your own TLC project

Feel free to share a little morning tea - always welcome & appreciated, but never obligated 🍉🥝🧁🫖😊

Come for as little or long as you feel.

🐞🌱🥾💚🌳

04/09/2026

2026 Turtle Tracker Info & Training Session
Monday 7th September 2026

Attention all freshwater turtle lovers! Our native turtle population is under threat and needs your help!

The SOSNT project, hosted locally by The City of Albany, is a partnership between the Harry Butler Institute, Murdoch University, NatureLink Perth, 1 Million Turtles, the Parks and Wildlife Service, Western Australia

Many of the City’s wetlands, including Tjuirtgellong / Lake Seppings, are home to populations of the Oblong Turtle ( previously know as the South Western Snake-Necked Turtle) which are under threat from predators such as foxes and ravens, vehicle strikes on our roads, lack of suitable nesting habitat, and the increased drying of southwest wetlands.

The City of Albany has committed to this project for a fourth year, which will provide the Albany community with opportunities to help save Snake-Necked Turtles. You can learn about the turtles and the latest research, and how to contribute data using the TurtleSAT app. This project provides you with an opportunity to help protect this species by receiving training to become a ‘Turtle Tracker’! This includes tracking nesting females, protecting their nests, and logging this data on the TurtleSAT app – all of which will inform which actions to best conserve our turtle.

Come along to this session to find out more about turtles, the project and how you can help just by using your smartphone! After the turtle information talk, you will have the opportunity to be trained to join our turtle-y cool group of volunteer ‘Turtle Trackers’ to help save turtles at Tjuirtgellong / Lake Seppings in Albany (with the bonus of increasing your fitness and engaging with like-minded people). If possible, please download and familiarise yourself with the TurtleSAT app before this event.

Light refreshments will be provided.

When: 6pm - 8:15pm (Arrive at 5:45pm for a 6pm start) on Monday, 7 September 2026

Where: City of Albany North Road Civic Rooms, Albany

Register: By clicking HERE above or call Sandra on 6820 3960

For further information about the project visit the following website: www.SOSNT.net.au .

13/08/2026

It's Keep Australia Beautiful Week for our Bushcarers!!💚🌳 Isn't that every week for us??All welcome! This Sunday 16/8,

10-12ish, meet at Collingwood Rd/David St tables. 🧤🥾

Recently the Albany Secondary Education Support Centre alongside The City of Albany Reserves have added to our understorey reveg - admire & care for this wonderful collaboration!

On the menu:

- clean-up superheros! Tongs provided.

- check stakes around new plantings

- give reveg some TLC w**ding

- knock off the odd lurking watsonia

- follow your own TLC project

Little morning tea sharings are always welcome & appreciated 🍉🥝🧁🫖😊

Come for as little or long as you feel.

🐞🌱🥾💚🌳

Find out more:

(4-10 AUG 2025) As environmental pressures mount, Keep Australia Beautiful (KAB) is calling on all Australians to come together during KAB Week to help “Pick Up the Pieces” — restoring and rebuilding our environment for future generations.

31/07/2026

Hi everyone,

CLAWS-Cat Laws and Wildlife Survival and Oyster Harbour Catchment Group Inc. will be presenting at the next WAM Curatorial Tuesday 4th August held at the Museum of the Great Southern 10:30-11:30am.

Learn about the latest conservation work taking place across the Great Southern, including the annual Ringtail Tally and research into the impacts of roaming cats on local wildlife.

Cassie Dressler will present the results of this year’s Ringtail Tally, while James Barr will explore the impacts of roaming cats on native wildlife and the role of disease transmission, including current research into toxoplasmosis in the Great Southern'

For more information see the WAM link below:

https://visit.museum.wa.gov.au/greatsouthern/tuesday-curatorial-protecting-albanys-wildlife-landcare-ringtail-possums-and-roaming