Mount Cole Cottages

13/08/2019

Just a few weeks to Spring! Autumn was very dry but with very welcome rains since May rainfall for the year now very close to long term average.

21/06/2019

Took these photos recently in Mount Cole State forest. Huge bushfire there in March 2010 burned about 1200 hectares.

16/03/2019

It's coming!! Beaufort's 1st annual walkfest. April 6th & 7th.Great range of walks from short town walks to the popular 21 km Beeripmo walk in the Mount Cole State Forest. More information on the Beaufort Walkfest fb page. A big thankyou to all the organisers and sponsors!

22/02/2019

Raised vegie beds erected last Spring. Very pleased with their performance; less water use than ground level beds, healthy plants and no bending! (600 mm bed height). Egg plants did very well compared with previous failed attempts over the years. Also zucchini, beetroot, cherry tomatoes and brassicas etc. The 12 mm mesh wire lets in the bees but not the birds, butterflies, rabbits etc!

25/11/2018

Taken a week ago. I don't think I have ever seen the bees so keen to be on flowers. They must have been on a high from the poppies!

24/10/2018

5 metre tall common lilac adjacent to timber cottage. Flowers only in the Spring and the honeyeaters are certainly celebrating. I counted about 8 Eastern Spinebills and 4 or 5 White-naped honeyeaters there a few days ago.

02/10/2018

One of my favourite plants. Exochorda Racemosa or common pearlbush. Each spring the flowers start as creamy buds very much like strings of pearls. Then eventually they all open. On cloudy or low light days it just glows!

19/09/2018

Very peaceful chickens meditating(?) under the flowering cherry plums. Two araucanas with their blue tinged eggs and a Light Sussex hen on the right.

01/08/2018

Bird list by Tom May, September 2017. Thanks Tom!

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01/08/2018

Nest building on the mountain! First image is a nest under construction in a flower pot about 20 cm from kitchen sink window. Scrubwren I think? The second nest image is of a straw hat hanging on a nail on the other side of our house. All natural and local sourced building materials!