Another photo of the Brush-tailed Possum that has taken up residence in our painted nestboxes at Brookfield, this time illuminated by the morning sun. The poor critter seems somewhat cramped […]

Platypus Festival Saturday 8th October 12– 4 Tamar Drive Melton South Friends of Toolern Creek will hold their tenth Platypus Festival at ‘Big Red’ beside Toolern Creek in Tamar Drive, […]

Bird Week in Melton MEG will be hosting Bird Week in Melton in 2017 in partnership with City of Melton, from Wednesday 25th October to Friday 3rd November. Our theme […]

September 1st is the first day of spring, and is recognised as Wattle Day in Australia. Wattle Day is an appropriate day to be celebrated by environmentalists in Australia. According […]

  On Saturday 2nd September MEG & Brookfield Village Landcare returned to plant at Brookfield. In June we had intended to plant in the corridor between two patches of woodland, […]

    Our Brush-tailed Possum that was rudely dislodged from its home during the torrential rainfall in April has returned. The drenching deluge dislodged the nestbox in which it had […]

A recent walk through Melton Gilgai Woodland in June found 26 bird species. Of special interest were the elusive Diamond Firetails. Following their calls tracked them down to the southern […]