Old Trees harbour Beautiful Birds in Kingswood

Have a gander at this punters !



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How good is the wood ?

The point is... If you live in the suburbs and there are trees about, look up!


There in the older trees, the remnants of the woods that were there before the suburb, the birds are living in close quarters, shoulder by feathery shoulder, chirping, whistling, screeching and singing in echoes of the beauty of trees.

The smart suburbanite knows that the value of their life is reflected in the landscape in which the streets lay. The community takes it's tone from the joys it finds in it's setting.

What precious trees you have, keep !

Kingfisher in the Suburbs

This afternoon we were lucky. We saw a Kingfisher dive into the back yard as if it were a pool and start to pluck small lizards ( of which we have an abundance) from between the bricks and off rocks. Beautiful. Over the last 6 years we have turned our yard from a one tree barren suburban blandness into a 30 tree shelter. It's a very small yard so things are dense. There is still plenty of sun. So we get nice warm footpaths, which are made of brick. The lizards have thrived and now a new comer to the scene. Brilliant. This is possible in your backyard too !

KT

Wattlebirds...good morning January

Native Wattlebirds are the best devices for making you get out of bed. I have had one bawling me at the crack of dawn for a fortnight now and the bugger shows no sign of sleeping-in himself in the near future. The scrawly call of the Wattlebird bellows through my bedroom window. A lovely Grevillia bush gives him his podium. Summer in the Kingswood being what it is, night heat demands an open window to sleep, or otherwise suffocate in the stiffling air of a locked up house. So January it seems is a time of little sleeping-in. Funny ( and somehow reassuring ) how nature can regulate the suburbs and the daily routines.

KT

Pillar of the community, the Kingswood Tree.

The Amenity of Great Trees

If you look about in the suburb of Kingswood you can find great trees. They offer character to this old suburb. They creat a connection with the past and the environment. They remind us of the bush that was once here, the farmland it became and the place we share with the natural world. in purely economic terms they increase the value of the street scapes. They are a privelage that other suburbs do not have in many cases. They give the place its history. These trees have witnessed all that has gone on and all that is going on. They are completely native to the landscape and are not impostors, introduced and irrelevant. many suburbs boast streetscapes of great effect, with introduced species that rob the soil of water, infest our waterways through the seeds they spit into our drainage systems and perpetuate a falsehood that says we can all play a great game of pretend and imagine we live in a european fantasy. the trees of Kingswood, remanant though they are, boast original culture. These trees are a mark of honesty, as they keep the place real, grounded in spirit of place. The great trees are majestic. They belong and we can belong with them. They are part of our history and great welcomers to the future. We should look after them.