The COVID-19 pandemic has seen many more people using the restored environs along Merri Creek for their physical and mental well-being. Of course, creating and maintaining this landscape requires a lot of professional and volunteer time and effort. Now, more than ever, we need your help to continue this work.

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Merri Creek Management Committee and Friends of Merri Creek have now put up six more bird posters at a number of sites along the Merri Creek Shared Path between the Birrarung/Yarra River and Moomba Park in Fawkner.
PDFs of the latest six posters are here: Grey Butcherbird, Pacific Black Duck, Red Wattlebird, Superb Fairy-wren, White-plumed Honeyeater and Willie Wagtail. Each of the posters has a scannable QR code that leads to more information on the bird. See how many posters you can find and how many of the live birds you can see.

The photographer of the latest six birds is P. Mollison.

Four fun jigsaws of Merri Creek indigenous frogs are now available, for free, on our website. Try your hand at the Eastern Froglet, Pobblebonk, Spotted Marsh Frog and Striped Marsh Frog. The jigsaws can be adapted for all ages and abilities. The puzzles are here. 

Our thanks to Peter Batchelor of Internet Technology Services, who set up the jigsaws for us after being inspired by the publicity for our recent Frogs of Darebin webinar.  

Our Merri Creek Nest Box Pilot Project has had a busy first year. Thirty-two nest boxes and log hollows for small birds and micro bats were attached to tall eucalypts in Merri Park, Northcote. Community members and students enthusiastically participated in seven monitoring events held between November 2019 and February 2020. Some events were held in the daytime and others in the evening. 

The Year 1 Summary Report documents the project so far, the lessons learnt, interesting observations and the next stepsfor the project. We hope to start community monitoring events again in Spring, in time for nesting birds.

This project was funded by generopus community donations to the Merri Creek Environment Fund and a grant from the Arthur and Hazel Bruce Bequest.