Work post. I'm mapping and removing woody weeds (Aleppo Pines) from this she oak woodland. Very remote, just how I like it. For those playing at home, the bird calls are white browed babblers, scrub wrens and a grey shrike thrush - ThreadSky

shaynecalliss.bsky.social • 8 days ago

Work post.
I'm mapping and removing woody weeds (Aleppo Pines) from this she oak woodland. Very remote, just how I like it.
For those playing at home, the bird calls are white browed babblers, scrub wrens and a grey shrike thrush

Comments

timmythebloke.bsky.social•8 days ago

Beautiful area and important work, too! Well done Shayne.

sharonclues.bsky.social•8 days ago

how lovely. we get the white browned babblers and grey shrike thrushes in our garden most days … they’re wonderful.

luvu2cooper.bsky.social•8 days ago

Appreciate the bird IDs!! Stay hydrated!

csharpminor.bsky.social•8 days ago

Are these on Sandys life list ?....😀

shaynecalliss.bsky.social•8 days ago

No very bread and butter birds

lyndallterrier.bsky.social•8 days ago

Ahh you've hit apon 1 of my old cons'n bugbears. Woody weeds as habitat! Not saying these pines r critical where u r - looks pretty good. But in lots of rural sites, particularly along waterways, woody weeds r often the only habitat of that type available for nest sites, cover, food or even hollows.

shaynecalliss.bsky.social•8 days ago

Pines and olives take over everything here.
I'm trying to keep them out of the quality habitat.

lyndallterrier.bsky.social•8 days ago

👍

petersracing.bsky.social•8 days ago

It’s a delicate balance that always seems to end up forcing a multi stage removal/reveg and stretches over decades sometimes. Then it becomes dependent on our continuity of land managers which often is where it fails.

lyndallterrier.bsky.social•8 days ago

Yes, it should be an ongoing process of gradual removal & replacement.
But from my obs woody weeds r mostly removed en masse by govt auths or landcare leaving the waterway or area bared. Habitat gone. Where is that local native wildlife supposed to live? New plants take yrs to form in equivalence.

petersracing.bsky.social•8 days ago

Our local council has cleared/replanted and left alternate 50m sections of overgrown creekline for bandicoots and Friends of Cleland who i sometimes work with is doing the same in the national park so it can be done as you know but some others certainly have slash and clear frenzy. 😟

lyndallterrier.bsky.social•8 days ago

Sounds good. A more enlightened ecological approach.
Victorian govt takes a more narrow, siloed, view. A weed is a weed - who cares if those Orange bellied parrots & Grey-crowned babblers r using those mature boxthorns, or Brushtail possums using willow hollows, or little wrens et al. using gorse?

shaynecalliss.bsky.social•8 days ago

Funding is a big problem.
If you have money this year and nothing guaranteed into the future you go hard and hope more money comes.
It's hard to plan long-term.
I have small budget but long timeframe. So I can exercise some sort of ecological triage. Strategically targeting high consevation areas

petersracing.bsky.social•7 days ago

That's horrendous - not like this isnt known. Our last two council biodiversity leads have been wonderful and both overtly and occasionally covertly changed the environment for the better.