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Brush-tailed Bettongs

All About Wildlife

Brush-tailed Bettongs

We are so accustomed to what we consider our ‘common’ species of wildlife in this area; flocks of corellas, cockatoos, galahs and rosellas, lorikeets and swallows, mobs of kangaroos feeding in paddocks and along roadsides. It is difficult for many people to imagine they may be initially in trouble when

By Victoria Arnel 11 Jun 2025
Beware before burning off

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Beware before burning off

It’s time to don my beanie on these crisp mornings! The bushland is so busy. It’s as though everyone is foraging and feeding as much as they can to get through the impeding winter. It’s very dry for this time of year and the landscape could do

By Victoria Arnel 15 May 2025
Time to preserve nature while we can

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Time to preserve nature while we can

Kirsty Ramadan - Bohollow Wildlife

By Victoria Arnel 02 Apr 2025
Wombats . . . and others

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Wombats . . . and others

Wombats! I cannot think of another animal on earth quite like them. 

By Victoria Arnel 19 Mar 2025
Hooks, lines and sinkers

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Hooks, lines and sinkers

On Friday I was called to a little pied cormorant who was caught on fishing line on the river near the Goulburn Weir. Not that long ago I attended an entangled corella who was stuck in fishing line up a tree right at the weir.  Discarded fishing line is something

By Victoria Arnel 05 Mar 2025
Heat causes wildlife distress

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Heat causes wildlife distress

We are in the midst of a week of high temperatures here in Northern Victoria. The heat can be very difficult for our wild creatures, although when temperatures build up slowly they seem to cope a lot better.  It’s sudden temperature fluctuations which can cause even more havoc. Yesterday’

By Victoria Arnel 05 Feb 2025
Reflecting on the life of a wildlife rescuer

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Reflecting on the life of a wildlife rescuer

It’s hard to believe another year has rolled on by so quickly! It has been one with the obligatory mixture of highs and lows; we don’t expect anything else in the wildlife rescue world.  Today has been a scorching hot day and is still 35 degrees Celsius outside

By Victoria Arnel 18 Dec 2024
Ambitious fledglings, ‘branchers’

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Ambitious fledglings, ‘branchers’

I often am asked why some baby birds cannot be reunited with their parents. This question does not have a simple answer, believe me. It would make our lives a lot easier if it did! The reasons why a chick or nestling has ended up coming to the ground are

By Victoria Arnel 04 Dec 2024
Pelican on the lure

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Pelican on the lure

Life has been very busy at Bohollow, we are amidst the calls of various baby birds resonating throughout the household. Numbers coming through the shelter at this time of year are high and the recent winds and storms added to  the number of patients.  Although it’s a time we

By Victoria Arnel 20 Nov 2024
All about wildlife

All About Wildlife

All about wildlife

Snake season The way the wind has been over the last month, I’m beginning to feel like we live on the southern coast! It’s been a slow start to the snake season this year but it has definitely begun.  Our Australian snakes can spark fear into people, understandably

By Victoria Arnel 10 Oct 2024
Keeping native animals

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Keeping native animals

A few days ago I was called to a bird of prey at a residence near Shepparton. The bird was not able to fly and had appeared in someone’s back yard.  On arrival, once I had the Brown Goshawk in my hands and began to do a quick assessment

By Victoria Arnel 26 Sep 2024
Care of injured animals

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Care of injured animals

Spring seemed to lay in waiting here at Bohollow as each year the breeding season for our native birds has begun earlier and earlier. In recent years, babes were coming in during winter of species that we wouldn’t usually see until the end of August or in September. Last

By Victoria Arnel 12 Sep 2024
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