Open Day at Bush Heritage Australia

We had our open day as part of the Loddon festival last weekend. It was booked out with 19 visitors, coming from Melbourne and Ballarat. All had a great time and were impressed with our conservation efforts at the Nardoo Hills. They saw a lot of Diuris protena which is now at its peak of flowering. The locations on the reserve where this species is now occurring has increased again compared to last year. Two new plants were recorded on the reserve, Xerochrysum bracteatum and Pheladenia deformis, both common species but not seen there. before. I have included a few photographs including one of a brown falcon, taken by Greg Hargreaves of Wedderburn.

Jeroen Van Veen