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46 October 2019 Friends of Sturt Gorge Newsletter No 46 : October 2019 This edition: Awards, Events, Cockatoos, Orchids, Weather…. As well as the presentations and speeches 20th Anniversary which acknowledged the contributions Award volunteers make to the natural environment and local communities, a Albert Kuster range of tours and workshops were also conducted, topped off by some delicious n Sunday 29th September Adelaide food! O and Mount Lofty Ranges environmental volunteers were invited to Marble Hill Estate for the annual celebration event put on by Parks SA. Larry Resch, Albert Kuster, Martin Bentley, Ruth Simpson, and Brian and Joanne Blaylock represented the Friends of Sturt Gorge. Larry accepted the 20 year anniversary award on behalf of FoSG. Marble Hill Residence under restoration Larry Resch accepting the FoSG award flanked by the CEO of DEW (on the right), the Local MP (left) and the Parks SA representative (rear) Tasty Paella was served for lunch! There was some discussion about a Morning Tea with the walkway connection across the Sturt Minister Gorge dam wall and Aboriginal naming of locations, trees and plants. Liz Sawyer With our Patron we discussed the need for morning tea with the Minister for the 19th century ruin near Magpie Creek to A Environment and Water, David be re-capped, given the Mitcham Council Spiers was held at the Belair National grant application was declined. It was Park Volunteer Centre on the 5th July agreed to plan a visit to the site with Pam. 2019. Sam Duluk, the State Member for Further networking came up with two Waite also attended. offers of assistance with our Aboriginal Friends of Parks members who were in representation in the Gorge. The attendance included; following two contacts were provided. Friends of Sturt Gorge Corey Turner: A senior Elder and co- Friends of Belair Park manager of Glenthorne Farm. Friends of Glenthorne Farm Peter Raine: Employed by the Adelaide Friends of O'Halloran Hill City Council Biodiversity Unit. Friends of Hallett Cove Friends of Field River Friends of Happy Valley Reservoir Youth Environment Friends of Blackwood Forrest. Friends of Brownhill Creek Council Event Pam Smith (FoSG Patron), Bob Grant and Rick Coyte, Albert Kuster Liz Sawyer met with the minister and had a photo taken. Speeches were presented and a budget report given, followed by Since 2018, Youth Environment Council morning tea and informal discussions. (YEC) regional events have been held in The budget presentation indicated that; addition to the normally scheduled events, $3.3 million had been earmarked allowing members opportunities to for improvements to projects by connect, engage in local environmental friends groups. activities and share their individual $6 million had been allocated for project progress. improvements to the Heysen Trail This year, YEC members in the Central between Cape Jervis and Victor Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges region, Harbour. identified flora, fauna and local landcare $10 million had been allocated to activities as areas of particular interest. In the Glenthorne Farm Project. response to this, the NRM Education team organised a one-day event on Wednesday 2 4th September, for members to meet with The students enjoyed the hands-on local land care groups and learn about activity of helping to cut back the olives, their work. The event was attended by the demonstration of how the olive trees nine students from nine different schools, can be killed with the drill-and-fill who travelled by minibus to visit various method, and the opportunity to see the locations in Upper Sturt and Belair where interactive map the volunteers use to track the landcare groups are based. the areas they have worked on, and to record their wildlife sightings. Cockies and Cones Les Gray hile walking along the River Trail Rick and Albert show YEC members the W recently I heard the distinctive Renwick St site wailing sound of a flock of Yellow-tailed In the morning, the YEC members met Black-Cockatoos, Calyptorhynchus Rick and Albert from the Friends of Sturt funereus, flying low over Sturt Gorge, and Gorge group at the Renwick Street noticed that one of them was carrying a riparian restoration site. Rick and Albert partially eaten pine cone. Not a rare sight, led a tour of the area explaining their work but it reminded of a national survey and showcasing the weeding and conducted on Yellow-tailed Black- revegetation they have undertaken over Cockatoos in the 1980’s during which the last eleven years; including the observers recorded a number of removal of olives and boneseed on the interesting observations relevant to the slopes surrounding the creek. relationship between the cockatoos and introduced Pinus species. There are 128,400 hectares of Radiata Pine (Pinus radiata) plantation in South Australia, and the cones generated by these forests are now a major food source for Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoos. Survey observers often reported cockatoos carrying pine cones while flying in a flock, probably a result of being Albert tutors YEC members on olive pruning disturbed while feeding and an unwillingness to be separated from the group and leave a partially dismembered 3 cone. They also feed on the cones of the increases annually, and in un-thinned Aleppo Pine (Pinus halepensis), an stands of pines, cone production peaks at invasive species in Australia and a around 15 years. Cone production is declared weed under the Natural sustained for much longer and at higher Resources Management Act 2004. As a levels in well thinned stands, while result, these cockatoos have helped spread isolated unmanaged trees keep producing introduced pine species by carrying indefinitely. partially eaten cones beyond the The survey was conducted over a five year boundaries of managed forests and period from June 1983 to June 1989, and dropping them into adjacent native I was just one of 1330 volunteer observers bushland. Regular visitors to the Sturt who completed a total of 25,150 sighting Gorge would have noticed individual and behaviour record sheets. The range of Radiata Pines scattered throughout the Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoos extends recreation park and extensive stands of from central Queensland south to Aleppo Pines on the slopes at the western Tasmania and west to Eyre Peninsula. end in the Spring Creek area. Following are some of the more interesting details that came out of the survey relating to the South Australian cockatoo population and their relationship with Radiata Pine plantations. • It was estimated that around 2500 Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoos inhabit the Fleurieu Peninsula. • The most western part of their range in Australia at the time of the survey was southern Eyre Peninsula where a small population of 16 were recorded residing 40km north-west of Port Lincoln with some movement to the north during breeding season. The most northern record in South Australia at that time was seven birds sighted 15km north of Quorn. Yellow tailed Black Cockatoo • In South Australia, Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoos were found to breed The number of Pinus radiata cones between October and March. They nest in produced per hectare by a 15 year old a large high tree-hollow lined with a bed stand is estimated at around 2000 with of woodchips. Two eggs are laid and trees starting to produce mature seeds incubated by the female only. It takes four after 6 years. The amount of cones weeks for the hatchlings to emerge from 4 the egg. The male provides food while the at the point of the bill reported to be as female incubates and rears the chicks, but much as 1000 psi. they almost always only feed one chick so • When de-seeding a pine cone that only one will survive. The nestling (which may weigh as much as 500g), they will eventually fly with and not become were observed to start at the bottom for independent from its parents until just two or three minutes while it is still before the next breeding season (around attached to the branch, then detach it, hold six months). it with their left foot and hang on to a • Since European settlement, these branch with the other. There are two cockatoos have experienced an extensive winged seeds under each bract and the loss of habitat. Their diet was originally time to strip a cone is approximately 20 varied, consisting mainly of seeds of minutes. They use the same method each Banksia, Acacia, Eucalyptus, time, rarely dropping a cone after a few Allocasuarina, Xanthorrhoea, and Hakea bites or dropping one accidently. species. The seeds of introduced Pinus • Although the largest migration species have now been substituted for the flocks of cockatoos feed mainly on Pinus major component of their diet nationally. seeds, they will also take the opportunity • In SA, the proportion of the to feed on any banksia they come across. cockatoo population feeding almost If there are extensive thickets of banksias exclusively on Pinus seeds is said to be as in the vicinity of pines, they may remain much as 87%, and could possibly be even in one location for days or weeks to more. subsidise their diet by eating seeds from mature banksia cones and feeding on • Of the Pinus species utilised as a banksia flowers which are rich in nectar. major food source, Pinus radiata was the most common. • Unlike other cockatoos, a large proportion of Yellow-tailed Black- • In pine plantations, cockatoos were Cockatoo’s diet is made up of wood- found to be methodical feeders, feeding in boring grubs. On occasions, cockatoos corridors 200 – 250 metres wide, and then have been seen stripping bark from trees observed to repeat feed in those corridors in their search for tree-boring beetles and three or four times a year.
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