Community walk - Cuumbeun Nature Reserve (nr Queanbeyan)
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Queanbeyan Landcare Group has organised a community walk from Cuumbeun Nature Reserve (above Queanbeyan to the east on the escarpment) to Greenleigh via the Jumping Creek catchment. Tom Baker and Roger Clement will be your hosts in the group's first walk for 2012. All are invited!
This is an A to B, downhill walk of about 5 km of moderate difficulty. It will be on a mixture of dirt roads/fire trails and down a fairly open but at times steep ridge through dry woodlands. Several vehicles will be left at the locked gate at the end of Lonergan Drive in Greenleigh to convey the drivers back to the start, to recover the cars left there.
The Cuumbeun Reserve is mixture of dry woodland and grassy box woodland with wetter gullies with ribbon gum (Eucalyptus viminalis). The group hopes to have a local twitcher along for bird recognition; the area includes some casuarina woodland which apparently hosts the rare and vulnerable glossy black cockatoo. This area also has at least one resident pair of wedgetail eagles, and on the group's last visit two boobook owls were seen. It is also habitat for a range of threatened woodland bird species and some rare migrating species.
The group will also be keeping an eye out for the koala population that may still be living in the reserve or to its south and east, by looking for koalas, koala scats and also their very distinctive chew marks in the bark of certain eucalypt species.
The walk will take place from 9.30 am to 12.00 noon on Sunday 6th May. Meet at the locked gate into Cuumbeun Reserve on the right, about 1.3 km up the Captains Flat Road from the Kings Highway intersection.
The walk will be of moderate difficulty, and about 5 km long. Be sure to wear a hat, sunscreen and sensible walking shoes or boots. Bring your own water, morning tea and camera. Lock your car please!
RSVP is essential:
- Email: roger.clement@gmail.com
- Ph: 62 973 691
