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Avenue of Honour Photo: Jan Ritchie	January 2024 A Heritage Road at North Head?  During one of our Foundation's spring wildflower walks for community members led by Geoff and Judy Lambert, the group found themselves on the wide path built along the coastal side of the headland’s dune system. marked on the map as the Avenue of Honour. The group was surprised to hear one of the participants exclaim with reverence that they were walking on a ‘Telford road’! What, you may ask, is a Telford road? And also, what actually is an Avenue of Honour?
Command Post	February 2024 North Head echidna survey; North Head Bush regeneration; Observation and Command Posts; In the year 1900, Bubonic Plague took several people who were subsequently buried on North Head.
Volunteer weeders	March 2024 Meeting March 2 with speaker, Mark Tozer, an ecologist;  Volunteers clearing the Frog Hollow; Information about echidnas; Sericornis frontalis - White-browed Scrubwren;  Committees formed in 1900 to help stamp out the plague.

| Working on cuttings	April 2024 Educaton room; Native Plant volunteers - call in any Tuesday or Friday morning to visit between 8 and 12; Pampas Grass - pest weed;   Garigal Landcare volunteers have been doing magnificent work removing Pampas Grass. Banksia aemula is a valued plant and Nursery volunteers have been propagating them.
Diamond python	May 2024 Plantings over 15 years are providing habitat for echidnas and diamond pythons; Cassia (or Senna pendula) is a weed shrub on North Head; Quarantine Station open day is on May 19; More buses on the North Head route; Ochrogaster lunifers are grey and hairy caterpillars that travel in a long line nose to tail; Quarantine events in 1900 - new plague cases
FT Morgan's headstone	June 2024 General Meeting June 15 Speaker: Alana Guest, Anderson Environment & Planning’s ecologist; 3yr agreement for space at North Head; Fungi - North Head and Beyond; Weeding on North Head; Back in time - testing guns on North Head; Death of Pte F.T. Morgan from influenza in 1918.
Nursery volunteers Jenny working in Nursery The oval where vegetation has been organised to assist native fauna.	July 2024 Jenny Wilson passed away on May 30, 2024 and she will be greatly missed.  This newsletter is a special edition to honour the many contributions Jenny Wilson has made to the work of North Head Sanctuary Foundation over many years. Here are some of the contribtutions she made .. 1. Writing and distributing monthly newsletters since 2008 portraying the work of North Head Sanctuary Foundation, events of interest happening on North Head, flora and fauna photographs, and reporting on many types of research related to North Head - much of which was her own research. 2. Being treasurer for North Head Sanctuary Foundation since 2008. 3. Organising funding for projects. 4. Propagating plants. 5. Revegetating degraded areas. 6. Providing morning tea for volunteers. 7 Obtaining funding and then organising hi vis uniforms for volunteers. 8. Maintaining the membership list. 9. Photographing flora and fauna on North Head.
Southern viewing platform. Photo: Ian Evans Circle on viewing platform. Photo: Ian Evans	August 2024 Annual General Meeting: Our AGM will be held at Bandicoot Heaven at 2pm on Saturday 21 September. Upcoming walks: Sunday 29 Sept 10am-12-30 Monday 7 Oct (public holiday) 10am-12.30 Wednesday 16 Oct 10am-12.30 Sunday 27 Oct 2-4.30pm.
Cranbrook House & Lodge NSW State Library Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos	September / October 2024 Don't forget to sign up to our remaining 2 spring walks on Wednesday 16 Oct (10am - 12:30pm) and Sunday 27 Oct (2 - 4:30pm) Featured in this newsletter: The Frog Pond Bootlace Orchids Reflections from a volunteer James Wilson - a 7-year old boy killed by Bubonic Plague
Cnr Wellington Place off Sussex St, opposite Fowler St 1875 Mature 'finger' on the old oval	November / December 2024 We're always looking for more people-focused volunteers who are eager to join our volunteer team! Contact Judy Lambert on 0427217580 or twswombat505@gmail.com. Featured in this newsletter: Eastern Suburbs Banksia Scrub The Old Oval: A Good News Story Third Quarantine Cemetery Kindy Neighbours' visit