FRIENDS OF SOUTH SURREY PARK
JULY 2020 NEWSLETTER
Sunday Working Bee - 26th July Cancelled
Due to Covid-19 restrictions in Melbourne our July working bee planting has been cancelled.
Sunday Working Bee Report - 28th June, 2020
We had a fantastic turn out for the working bee held on Sunday 28 June, 2020 with sixteen people attending to attack the weeds at Delta Street.
We were especially pleased to welcome local ward councillors Lisa Hollingsworth (Lynden Ward) and Jane Addis (Maling Ward). (Who are pictured above with Pam)
It was a beautiful sunny winters morning and the result of our hard work was a massive pile of weeds and many liberated native plants.
Long time Friend of South Surrey Park member Ursula Povey was there energetically pulling out the weeds, despite the fact she was due to be admitted to hospital in the afternoon!
Peter Hannay - Co-ordinator
Tuesday Toilers
 
Jenine has purchased some Hi-Viz vests on our behalf and here are Peter and David modelling them.
They had a good turnout of seven workers this week, weeding and spreading mulch in the Delta street plantation. This area is improving due to the policy of weeding around our indigenous plants and then spreading newspaper and mulch to prevent regrowth.
General News
Annual General Meeting will be held on 7th October, hopefully in The Cottage, Surrey Hills Neighbourhood Centre. We are celebrating twenty five years of work in South Surrey Park and it will be interesting to hear our guest speakers talk about the park as it was in their youth.
Banner
Your committee had an email this morning from Jenine, to advise us that our banner has arrived. She and David put it up for this photograph and can't wait until we can install it again prior to working bees to encourage lots of volunteer participation.
In the Park this month - Golden Whistler
At our last working bee I was thrilled to see a different bird high up in the trees below Delta Street. It sat there long enough for me to note some identifying features. I rushed to my trusty app and before I could find out what it was, Phyl had whipped out his bird id card from his pocket and worked out it was a male Golden Whistler!
Here is a photograph and information from the Museum Victoria Field Guide to Victorian Fauna.
The male has a white throat, black top of head and yellow underneath. Females are brown-grey and their underparts are light brown to pale yellow. The body is up to 20 cm long.
The male has a loud cheerful call during the breeding season but they are silent at other times.
They mainly eat insects, other invertebrates and fruit.
Membership of Friends of South Surrey Park
Now is the time to renew your membership so that you can continue to join in the work of the group and contribute to running expenses. If you would like to become a new Friend of South Surrey Park you will find the application for membership form at the end of this newsletter.
Facebook and South Surrey Park website
You can see some of what is happening in the park on Facebook and South Surrey Park website.
Work in South Surrey Park is brought to you through the efforts of the Friends of South Surrey Park, a voluntary group working with the local community, City of Boroondara and Melbourne Water. For information about your local Park, contact any committee member below.
Pam Welsford (President) - 9830 5178 - pamwelsford@gmail.com
Ursula Povey (Vice President) - 9836 6149 - ursulapovey@gmail.com
Maggie White (Secretary) - 9888 4479 - john_maggie@hotmail.com
Lyn Read (Treasurer) - 0408377668 - lynmread@gmail.com
Jenine Fleming - 9830 7767 - fleming.jenine@gmail.com
Peter Hannay - 9830 5493 - phhannay@bigpond.com
MEMBERSHIP FORM
FRIENDS OF SOUTH SURREY PARK INC ABN 71 979 859 196.
Registration Number A 0032389N.
APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP TO 30th June, 2021.
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A single subscription is $15, or $30 for a household, or $100 corporate/group. (This covers our insurance with Victorian Landcare and some expenses). It is payable to Hon Treasurer, Lyn Read, 6/136 Through Road, Vic, 3127 telephone 0408 377 668 or direct deposit to our Bendigo Bank account, BSB 633 000, A/c No 1205 19285. Remember to put your name in the ‘reference’ box so we’ll know you’ve paid.
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