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.
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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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
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
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
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.
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
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 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
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 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
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".
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
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.