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It has been a year of hard work, attending copious calls for wildlife needing help and caring for numerous native lives who find themselves at one of our two Bohollow Shelters. For my family and I at our founding Bohollow Wildlife Shelter at Bunbartha, it’s been a year of
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Bird specialists are a bit of a rarity in the wildlife caring world. Many carers will look after common bird species such as magpies, parrots or tawny frogmouths and kookaburras or even specialise in a particular field of birds such as waterbirds or raptors but most carers are by definition,
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Regardless of how many native ducklings I’ve seen and raised over the years, they still melt my heart. Each year many come to Bohollow for help when they run into trouble. The season has started with Wood ducklings and the first one to come in for the season moved
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The babes have begun to arrive at the shelter. Ducklings, plover chicks and the first magpie nestling have already required our assistance and care. Other native critters that are making an appearance are our reptiles. Snakes and lizards are becoming more and more active as the warmth of the changing
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Many of our native birds are nesting now and we’ve had a few babes at the shelter already but we are waiting for the influx that we know may suddenly happen at any time. There are a few things you can do during the season to give our natives
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The rakali, or water rat as I always knew it during my childhood, has just won Australia’s Most Underrated Native Creature in a vote ABC put to the public. I actually voted for the short-finned eel, as I couldn’t help backing a true underdog because I was sure
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As each day passes subtle hints of spring bring promise of longer days and new life to come. Welcome warmth from the late winter sun begins to melt away the icy nights more quickly and the fresh mornings inspire urgency to be busy, to prepare for the season to come.
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Things have been busy at Bohollow. This time of year Deb at our Kotupna shelter is always flat out with roo joeys while here at our Bunbartha shelter the daily patient numbers coming in slow down a little. During the winter months we are always busy with raptors, particularly owls
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I was saddened to hear that the Cafe and Hub at Lake Makoan at Winton Wetlands is closing due to the Winton Wetland Committee disbanding due to difficulties with funding. It is in the hands of DEECA until it is decided how and even if the area will be continued
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Kirsty Ramadan - BoHollow Wildlife
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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
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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