Celebrate Nature with Armidale Community Groups

Celebrate Nature – 16/10

VENUE: various (see below). TIME: various (see below). Bring family and friends. For more information and/or have group included, phone Liz on 0408 670 684 or email elizabethohara256@gmail.com or Kate on 0429 724 026.

Walks

8.00-9.30am – Mike O’Keefe Woodland: Enjoy a quiet dawdle through the reserve managed by Armidale Tree Group. An ornithologist will help you see and identify the birds. Park between 78 Kentucky Street and bridge over Black Gully.

10.00am – Explore Creekland revegetation with Armidale Urban Rivercare Group. Hear how forests of weeds have been replaced with native habitats and see when volunteers of all ages can help plant the next 21,500 plants. Meet at the Visitor Information Centre for 4km walk along bike path.

Picnic

12.00-2.00pm – Picnic and activities in the Aboretum (above water feature): BYO: Please bring your own food, drink and picnic rug or chairs. Enjoy the wildflowers and trees, activities for kids and adults, discover more about Armidale’s arboretum. Whether your passion is koalas, frogs, wildflowers, skinks, Regent Honeyeaters or you simply love escaping into the bush – there will be something for everyone.

Walks

2.30pm – Drummond Park bushland and Snow Gums Bushland Reserve: Discover wildflowers of all colours, butterfly territories and identify birds and imagine the First Nations people who lived in this place until about 1940. ATG Bushcare volunteers will explain how they help the bushland regenerate. Circuit walks of 0.5 or 2km from apex Lookout (top of Jeffrey Street).

5.00pm – Walk long wildlife corridor (unnamed public walking reserve) with CWC Bushcare volunteers (2km). Meet on corner of Trelawney and Rockvale Roads (3km from Ben Venue School).