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Volunteers builders Ken and Anton did another amazing week of work to ‘create’ an additional bedroom in our farmhouse/research and education centre. This will hopefully accomodate two bunk-beds and so almost double the number...

Ecologist Andy was joined by 4 volunteers who set up 4 mist-nets across two monitoring sites over 3 days and had a productive catch of 50 birds. This included two recaptured birds from last...

Roz Hart, a fungi expert, visited in August with member Carol and friend Helen – all are King’s Park volunteers. Roz was thrilled upon arrival to find Pisolithus puffball fungi-fruiting just near the entrance gate. ...

Our 3rd year of seedling planting took place last week when 6 Regeneration Australia workers and 2 Buch Block Guardians volunteers planted around 16,000 plants in our southern paddock. The team endured cold, rainy,...

Volunteers Ken, Anton and Simon visited the block recently with committee member Peter to improve the farmhouse/research and education centre. Peter and Simon worked hard on the water catchment and piping system. They made...

We have been advised by the ATO that we have been endorsed as a deductible gift recipient. This means tax deductible donations to BBG can be made directly to us rather than needing to...

Mid April saw BBG doing the first phase of its grant-funded feral animal control program: a party of licensed shooters spent two nights out looking for foxes and cats with some good success, then...

BBG committee ecologist Andy McCreery visited the block in March to prepare for non-native predator control measures that will be implemented this year. As part of feral cat monitoring cameras were placed in areas...

James Kennerley from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology helped with a range of surveys in addition to his cuckoo research at the block in November 2025. James and committee ecologist Sam Lostrom took a...

Not all birds play by the same rules and cuckoos are among the most surprising of them all! In November 2025, James Kennerley from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology visited the bush block to...