Category: Our Environment
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Who’s Who at the Dereel Christmas Market
The Christmas Market is tomorrow! Hub Cafe will be open from 10am to 3pm and along with the market stalls, there will be a mini art exhibition in the hallway with artworks for sale. Here’s a quick peek at some of the items for sale: Stallholders Elisabet’s HandspunSharon has a range of handspun yarns, spinning…
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Stallholder: Carol Moyse Photography
Bird photography prints, framed and unframed, by Carol Moyse Photography at the Dereel Christmas Arts and Crafts Market..
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Gallery: Carol’s Bird of the Month
Carol has been generous in allowing Dereel Spokes to publish her bird photographs each month in 2017. A couple of photographs have made it into the print edition, but not online. So, here are all of the 2017 ‘Bird of the Month’ photographs in one gallery. Click on the first photograph to enlarge it, then…
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Dereel Birds
Photograph and text by Caelum Picket Here we have what is known as a Tawny Frogmouth, also known as the Mopoke owl for the call they make. This photo was taken by me at my house down Ferrers Road. The nest was situated up a very old, tall tree. This is a mating pair and…
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Local Wildflowers: Early Nancy
If you can see tiny white flowers growing on your property in early Spring, take a closer look: they may be the native Australian lily Early Nancy Wurmbea dioica. The Early Nancy plant, in flower, will range somewhere between 5 and 15cm in height. Multiple flowers can be present on the same plant, but usually…
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Local Species: Small Mosquito Orchids (Acianthus pusillus )
If you enjoy walking in Dereel’s natural bushland, keep an eye out for Small Mosquito Orchids Acianthus pusillus which emerge in April. They will continue to appear throughout Autumn and flower into mid-Winter. Small Mosquito Orchids are tiny. The photo at left shows the leaf being slightly smaller than a five cent coin, so you will have…
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Local Plan Species: Parsons Bands Orchids (Eriochilus cucullatus)
Typically, Parsons Bands Orchids (Eriochilus cucullatus) appear after the first heavy rainfall of Autumn. While Dereel had only seen some slight showers this Autumn, it seems to be enough moisture to enable this orchid to flower. I have found a few in the last couple of weeks, but they are not plentiful. They also don’t…
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Yellow: The colour of Spring
To tie in with the Dereel and Surrounds Spring Festival, happening on Saturday 10th October, I thought I would post a gallery of beautiful yellow Spring wildflowers growing in and around Dereel. I’ve started with the Spring Festival logo, which features Guinea Flowers. This is just a start. There are so many yellow wild flowers blossoming…
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Our Banner: The Nodding Greenhood
The Nodding Greenhood has long been associated with Dereel. Shortly after I moved to the community a friendly local gave me a small sewing repair kit with Dereel and a Greenhood imprinted on top. In local meetings, people talk about plans for marking this association in a more public way – through signs, or walking trails, or sculpture.…
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