Author: ockendencreek
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Birdwatching in Winton Wetlands: Key Highlights and a few Species Sightings
We took a trip to Winton Wetlands recently to follow up on previous sitings of Swift Parrots. We returned to 11 Mile Creek Woodland (part of the Reserve) hoping to see them again, but they had moved on. There have been further reports of Swifts in the adjacent Warby Range National Park in recent days.…
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Discover Winton Wetlands: 6th August 2025
This large area of public land at Winton, Victoria is managed by the Victorian Government for conservation purposes. The original Winton Swamp system made up of some 13 small wetland areas totalling about 7000Hectares was taken over by the state government in 1971 and flooded to create Lake Mokoan for a irrigation storage. This resulted…
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Wednesday Walkabout in Oxley, NE Victoria 30/07/2025
Female White-throated Treecreeper with the rufous spot below the ear-coverts. This busy little Thornbill was hard to spot as it kept fluttering from tree to tree. There were other birds calling like the Spotted Pardolote, Eastern Shrike-tit, Gray Fantail, Ravens and the very noisy Sulphur Crested Cockatoo. Brown Thornbill on the bank of the King…
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Swift Parrots: A rare siting near home on 7th July 2025
I recently updated to a Panasonic LUMIX DC-FZ80D camera, it’s a bridge camera with a fixed 20-1200 lens. I am quite impressed with it. I took it out for a test run on my morning walk. I saw all the usual birds that morning nothing out of the ordinary. When I got near the lower…
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A Foggy Glenrowan Morning
Here is today’s trip. These winter days often start pretty ordinary but this morning was exceptional. I went out just after 7am hoping to capture some landscape images and see what the birds were up to. Not much to report Fog central near Hamilton Park.
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Stanley Vic
Wednesday 25th June 2025 A cold day to go looking for reports of snow at Stanley this morning. However as expected on this cold day the report referred to Mt Stanley only. Instead we opted for looking around some of the village. I was especially interested in revisiting Collins St where the old police station…
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Taminick Gap: a short walk up part of Nasons Springs Track.
A Saturday morning walk in June at Warby Ovens National Park. We left the car at the eastern end of Taminick Gap Road (South Wangaratta) near the base of the steep bitumen road. There is a small place on the south side of the road to park. We were the only ones there at the…
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Walking 73km for Heart Health in Australia
If you wish to help me please follow this link to my page. So far I have raised $219 and walked 49km (to 15June 2025). https://www.runforheart.org.au/fundraisers/peterockenden/run-for-heart I previously walked this Project in October 2021 and walked over 100km and raised $250. My view on my first Run for Heart in June with Mt Buffalo in…
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A Walk Through Glenrowan: Nature and Heritage
https://maps.app.goo.gl/kiJSJV23VD7MhcwJ7 Glenrowan is an interesting small town 15minutes south of Wangaratta just off the Hume Freeway. If you are prepared to spend some time walking around the streets and tracks its amazing what you see. The old Police Paddock opposite the School is a small block of open eucalypt woodland. The old scout halls are…
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iPhone Photography: Night Sky Aurora Over Glenrowan
The night sky near Glenrowan Victoria on Saturday 31st May 10pm-10.10pm was special, I had a limited low attitude view of the event through the edge of the trees. I was looking SSE after 10pm. and these images are from my iPhone 15pro handheld. There was was also night sky events through to the 3rd…
Walking Glenrowan and Beyond 