Purple swamphen family has a chick. Camp Hill PS students have cleaned up a small section of pond bank, removing rubbish (mainly empty bottles), dead branches, elm suckers, cumbungi rushes, cape broom shrubs, mock orange & honey locust branches, kikuyu grass runners & spiny rush…ie. weed & rubbish extravaganza. We’ve planted some native wetland species in place of the weeds at the water’s edge – sedges, phragmites reed, water milfoil. So far not looking good as swamphens have eaten the reeds, pulled out the sedges & pulled off the milfoil stems… So replanted sedges & shielded them with dead branches. Also putting thick layer of mulch (donated by council – thank you!) over kikuyu to try to kill it
