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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Tick
Tick under microscope
January 2019
Volunteers welcome for Education Room and Nursery; Ocean Care Day; A word about ticks; Cryptostylis erecta; Ecological Society of Australia’s (ESA) Annual Conference; Third Cemetery - Pte Hector Fraser HICKS
Elizabeth McGregor
Elizabeth McGregor
February 2019
General meeting Feb 23 - Matthew Taylor speaking about birds of North  Head; Congratulations to Dr Paul Lancaster; "Surviving Influenza at Quarantine Station" talk on March 5 at Sydney Harbour Federation Trust offices; Update on Animal re-introductions in North Head bushland; Avoiding ticks; Vegetation surveying; Third Cemetery - Sister Elizabeth McGregor - Part 1
Brush Turkey chick
Brush Turkey chick
March 2019
Society for Insect Studies event - March 9, 2019; Brush Turkey chick; Fire and ESBS on North Head - poster presentation at International event in Darling Harbour; "My North Head"; Christmas Bells on North Head; Third Cemetery - Sister Elizabeth McGregor - Part 2
 Nursery Group
Nursery Group
April 2019
Report from Society for Insect Studies walk held March 9; Echidna rescued from being in a drain;  Celebration event after 20 years of dedicated work by the Nursery Group.
Tukey pecks Echidna
Turkey pecks Echidna

May 2019
General Meeting on Saturday May 25; Things you find in Building 20 - our education centre called "Bandicoot Heaven"; Volunteering in the Native Plant Nursery; "My North Head" by Kath Pearce, Turkey pecks Echidna; Building a Bee Motel; Trailer needed to transport Nursery benches

Praying Mantis
Praying Mantis
June 2019
Bandicoot Heaven; Native Plant Nursery; Praying/preying Mantis on a Banksia flower; Donation of equipment to Indigrow; Third Cemetery; Sydney Morning Herald report about the conditions on the immigrant ship "Allanshaw".
Xanthorrhoea
Xanthorrhoea after fire
July 2019
Education room; Mosman High School visit the Nursery; Water in the hanging swamp; Whales seen off North Head; The 135 Stuarts' bus; Third Cemetery - smallpox on the French steamer "Ville de la Ciotat"
Recovery after fire
Recovery after fire

August 2019
Meeting 2pm August 17 - speaker Carole Rollings from Manly Little Penguin Watch; Acianthus fornicatus - a tiny orchid on North Head; 15month post-fire survey; Third Cemetery - Sydney Cecil Pepper, a plague victim

Wren
Wren feeding on nectar
September 2019
 Q Station - Open Day- Life in Quarantine 10am – 2pm, Sunday 15th September;   Wren feeding on nectar of Xanthorrhoea flowers; Imperata cylindrica; Spring Wildflower Walks; Back in Time - housing in early Sydney; North Head is a Botanist’s Heaven with nearly 500 native species of plants.
Male pardalote
Male pardalote
October 2019
Native Plant Nursery; Education Room; North Head Bird photo - pardalote; Annual General Meeting; Guided Wildflower Walks; Styphelia triflora or Five Corners; Wildflower report from 1933; Building 20 now used as "Bandicoot Heaven" - 80 year history; Third Cemetery - smallpox onboard the "Eastern".
Plovers
Plover family

November 2019
Annual General Meeting on November 9 with Colonel Peter Sweeney speaking about military history in Sydney Harbour; Native Plant Nursery has the shade cloth installed for the Summer; Morning tea with Dr Viyanna Leo; Ocean Care Day now part of Ocean Week; Plover chicks; Life as part of Quarantine Station staff family.
ICMS volunteers
ICMS volunteers
December 2019
Ocean Care Day - Dec 1; Volunteer with Native Plant Nursery or Education Room; Independent review of the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust; Calyptorhynchus funereus - Black Cockatoo; Snake and spider awareness; Mosman High School ‘Environmental Expo’; Volunteer day - students from the International College of Management Sydney.


Featured Flora and Fauna from the newsletters:

January 2019

Cryptostylis erecta
Cryptostylis erecta Photo J. Wilson
March 2019

Frog Pond
Frog Pond Photo Penny Polkinghorne
August 2019

Acianthus fornicatus
Acianthus fornicatus Photo: Elizabeth Mills
 September 2019

Imperata cylindrica
Imperata cylindrica Photo: Jenny Wilson
October 2019

Styphelia triflora
Styphelia triflora
Photo: Geoff Lambert

December 2019

Black cockatoo
Black Cockatoo feeding on Lambertia Formosa
 Photo Ian Evans
 
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