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Finding a name for those welcome backyard visitors
E-Bird Australia holds an enormous database of bird sightings from ‘citizen scientists’, who upload their lists for review by volunteer experts before becoming part of…
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Finding a name for those welcome backyard visitors
Photos: Lyle Radford There’s a little brown bird hoping from branch to branch in your garden or flashes of rainbow colours from a group of…
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What weed is that? A strangling vine
by Kaye Martin THIS week we introduce another new feature to the pages of Fassifern Guardian in the form of a series on local weeds.…
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Teviotville’s constant gardener
There’s an extraordinary gardener’s calendar in Ashley Haag’s mind. It’s full of imperatives. Those imperatives dictate when each vegetable must be sown, when the perennial…
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That’s one long zucchini
Is it a pumpkin, a squash or a zucchini? The answer is all of the above and none of the above. Squash, pumpkins and zucchinis all…
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Country Parson: Fairy’s sleeping bag
If you have little granddaughters, it is difficult not to believe that we share the world with fairies. The other day I saw seven sleeping…
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Rescue operation to save rare fish from The Head creek
A rare fish, native to creeks around The Head, could have died out in the drought and recent bushfires if it wasn’t for an emergency…
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Country Parson: Floral cousins
Of the two flowers pictured here, found growing at Wyaralong, both appear to be Hibiscus. In fact one is a Hibiscus, and one is a…
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One last hike: NZ food and wine tour
Part 1: Prepping for the mountain Part 2: No coffee, no wine Passing back through the Mount Cook area we went up to investigate the views and…
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Wildlife carers network will take the call
Carers involved with Scenic Rim Wildlife Rescue have their hands full of injured and orphaned animals at the moment. “But our hands are never too…
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No coffee, no wine: NZ food and wine tour
Roy’s Peak, Wanaka: The old knees were not co-operating and everytime I took a step they would make odd creaking noises, so we decided to…
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Exploring a bright new world after the rain
Alarm clocks were set for the start of the first field outing for 2020, an early morning birding at Lilybrook, but the majority of the…
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