Does anyone mind if I post on-topic for a moment? No worries then. I just want to say how nice it is to have some bew members from Oz. Not that there is anything wrong with being from some other place, I hasten to add, it's a time-zone thing. One of my favourite times to visit Storage Forum is Friday evening (Oz time). I've finished work for the week and I'm too buggered to do anything useful, or even (usually) post anything much. Mostly I arrive here and just make like a wallflower, aimlessly flicking through the new posts and getting a chuckle here and there, now and then being inspired to a fit of activity and posting something.
But, alas, Friday night is the great Storage Forum dead zone: no-one comes by for hours at a time. So, anyway, it's nice to have some new Oz-timezone members to keep me amused. (Yes, even if they do like lights in cases!)
BTW, I'm off in a few moments for the weekend. Not planting this time, doing a bird survey. How much difference does our revegetation project really make? How many years of growth do we need before we have good habitat, and for which species? We know (or think we know) that the Regent Honeyeater will need 30-odd years before the trees are mature enough to provide sufficient nectar flow to make attractive habitat for Regents, but casual birdwatching in the district tells me that many of the smaller woodland birds are
already moving into quite young plantings - sometimes as young as a couple of years. Robins, pardalotes, thornbills, fantails, babblers, and so on.
Well, am I dreaming? This weekend we (me and many other
Birds Australia members) will find out; get some hard scientific numbers. But first I have to go home, pack, feed the cats, drive 300 kilometres, set up camp, and (finally!) sleep.
(Sleep. Does anyone remember sleep?)
) overnight @ times, I'm told that Ballarat has a similar climate to the UK