Projects cont.
Stage 3
Pedestrian board
and chain at Squire St. and Viv Mason Park, the drains at the Blue Loo, and
the vehicle control measures along with some planting at Viv Mason Park, are
still to be completed.
1998/1999 Projects
Projects in this submission include, aboard and chain at Mullins Creek Cooloola
Village, a management plan for The Wallum, community awareness programmes,
continued revegetation by school children, and seed collection programme.
1999/2000 Maintenance Submission
If successful, we will be notified mid December.
SHORELINES
Buff-banded Rail
(Gallirallus philippenis)
If you see a chook like
bird with a flicking tail that runs for cover into undergrowth when disturbed,
it's
sure to be a Buff-banded Rail.
In Tin Can we have been
seeing them over the past years, but this summer their population seems to
have
increased and most pairs have chicks in tow. These birds are apparently nomadic
and tend to breed up in
the wetter years. Like people they prefer coastal environments and also populate
offshore islands.
Buff-banded Rails are
secretive and live in swamps, wet grassy reedy areas along watercourses. They
have
been sited over the past couple of months at, Snapper Creek Cooloola Village
and at the local Treatment
Works. To build a nest, they very cleverly pull grass tussock stems or reeds
to the ground and bend and
weave them into a deep cup. They lay up to 11 eggs and incubate them for 18-19
days.
Wedding
Bush
Ricinocarpus pinifolius
Wedding Bush stands out like beacons in the coastal hinterlands during winter months. Masses of cascading white blossoms cover the shrub resembling a wedding veil. They are most spectacular from May to September and can be seen in Tin Can Bay (Impey St and Crab Creek area), Rainbow Beach and along the road to Maryborough. Ricinocarpa can be propagated and grown in gardens if they are treated as a Wallum plant (ie no fertilisers). They are a close relative to the Pionsettia.
