North Head Sanctuary Foundation
is working with Government agencies
towards the establishment of
Car-rang-gel Sanctuary
on North Head
at the gateway of Sydney Harbour
- a flagship for Australia's
environmental resolve
and a celebration of
our natural and cultural heritage.
Car-rang-gel Sanctuary on North Head, Sydney
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Newsletters:
If you would like to receive North Head Sanctuary Foundation newsletters via your email from now on, just ask to be put on the mailing list by contacting: northhead@fastmail.com.au

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Nursery group
Tuesday Nursery Group
January/February 2014
General Meeting; Welcome to new AWC
researcher; The Sue Halmagyi Endangered Eastern Suburbs Banksia Scrub regeneration trial; Native Plant Nursery; Amperea xiphoclada; Ant lions rule; Third Cemetery - Annie Egan
Planting
Planting the bank
March 2014
ESBS talk; walks for children; Planting in the bank by Seargeants' Mess; My North Head - Katie Meyer; What's underground at North Head by Geoff Lambert; Back in Time -by Steve Johnson; Goodenia stelligera
 Katie
Katie at the stall
April 2014
Katie and Kathy represent NHSF at Farmhouse Montessori School; walks for children, Clean up Australia event on North Head; Congratulations to Eco Award winners; Fauna surveys. Plant Nursery news; Black rat; Hibbertia empetrifolia; Spider shots; Third Cemetery - Albert Blake, aged 38
Centipede
Centipede

May 2014
General Meeting; Children's activities; Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo; Centipedes and Millipedes; Phallus indusiatus; Third Cemetery - Pneumonic Plague

Battery
Battery
June 2014
Walk and talk on North Head; Military battery and the hanging swamp; Acetosa sagittata or Turkey rhubarb; Third Cemetery - burial of 13 soldiers and 2 nurses; Colonial hospital
Coach
The coach

July 2014
Notice of AGM; Astroloma pinifolium; Congratulations Jim - the coach now in England; Tawny frogmouths; Walking in the rain; Third Cemetery - smallpox 1892, influenza in 1919
Flying ants
Flying ants

August 2014
Notice of Annual General Meeting; Facilities in Bandicoot Heaven; Petrophile sessilis; Bush Rat reintroduction; Native Plant Nursery; Flying Ants; Third Cemetery - Sidney Pepper; Stoney Range Botanic Gardens Spring Festival

Whale
Whale

September 2014
Spring Wildflower Walks on North Head; Manly Hospital site survey; Nursery news; North Head (whale watching) by David Jenkins; Heliochrysum elatum; Family Fun Day at Q Station; Are you a Muggle?; Committee elected at AGM; Third Cemetery - Cecil Pepper
revegetation
Revegetation at North Fort

October 2014
Next General Meeting - Art of North Head; Prickles and Spikes; Spring - baby birds; Comesperma ericinum; revegetation progress at North Fort near the toilet block; Third Cemetery - Hector Spence

Walk
Spring Walk

November 2014
Next General Meeting Nov 26 at 7pm; Nature Walks for children; Spring Wildflowers; Gonocarpus micranthus; About Ants; Preparing for more study of effects of fire on natural bushland; Third Cemetery - Edward James Fury.
Sand
Ant diggings
December 2014
Ocean Care Day; In memory of Sue; Bleached and unbleached sand on North Head; Melaleuca armillaris; New Signage; Plover update; Thank you Katie; Third Cemetery - Samain; Quarantine Station 1921


Featured Flora and Fauna from the newsletters:

January/February 2014

Amperea xiphoclada  Photo: J. Wilson
March 2014

Goodenia stelligera Photo: Jenny Wilson
April 2014

Hibbertia empetrifolia Photo: Jenny Wilson
May 2014

Phallus indusiatus
Photo J. Wilson
June 2014- Weed found on North Head

Acetosa sagittata (weed)
Photo J. Wilson

July 2014

Astroloma pinifolium Photo: Jenny Wilson
August 2014

Petrophile sessilis Photo: Jenny Wilson
 September 2014

Heliochrysum elatum Photo: Jenny WIlson
October 2014

Comesperma ericinum Photo: Geoff Lambert
November 2014

Gonocarpus micranthus  Photo: Jenny Wilson
December 2014


Melaleuca Armillaris  Photo: Jenny Wilson
December 2012


Billardia scandens  Photo: J. Wilson
 
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North Head Sanctuary Foundation, P.O.Box 506, Balgowlah, NSW 2093

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