ORRCA is holding its annual Port Stephens Dolphin Census on Sunday 18th August between 11am and 12 midday, and is looking for volunteers to count and observe dolphins, their behaviour . . .
Cove wildlife
The draft MidCoast Council Koala Conservation Strategy has been released. The maps in the Strategy show North Arm Cove and the nonurban area as having 2 koala sightings from 2011 . . .
Marianne Moreau, a resident of Promontory Way, made a delightful find whilst strolling in shallow water this afternoon on Heros Beach - a tiny seahorse! She, and many others, said . . .
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I went for a swim at Heros Beach last Friday evening and spotted two stingrays, one about 20cm across and the other about 40cm. It was about an hour after . . .
On our evening walk in Yallarwah Park over the last few days we have heard the distinct crunching of casuarina seeds. A pair of glossy black cockatoos have been feeding . . .
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Have you noticed that the large noisy flock of corellas is not about at the moment. The last we saw of the large flock was a couple of months ago . . .
In November after a bit of rain, I heard some frogs in the bush behind the Community Centre. I used the Frog ID app on my phone to record the . . .
The following information was released in the August 2022 edition of the DPI NSW Recreational Fishing Newsletter. Following the recent changes to Dusky Flathead recreational fishing rules, this is a . . .
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Keep the kids and the whole family occupied- become citizen scientists. Citizen scientists help our researchers better understand the world. Our phones allow us the opportunity to collect data for . . .
Termites spawning... Author: Trever Vandenberg ... Over the last few weeks termites have begun to spawn..., not only throughout the non urban area ...as I have seen remnants within the . . .