Makuru is also a time for a lot of animals to be pairing up in preparation for breeding in the coming season. If you look carefully, you might see pairs of wardong or ravens flying together. The tall eucalypts (Citriodona) in the Early Childhood space have been welcome homes for nesting wardong.  As inquisitive animals the school provides much entertainment for them with paintbrushes picked at for nesting fibres, red balls played pushed about, the water course of the early childhood provides a welcome drink and bath all year round. A particular family of wardong are no longer shy of the students and regularly forage for nesting materials amongst the playing children.

Feeding time is very noisy with the fledglings can be seen hopping about. Upon the lakes and rivers of the South West, including our Lake Galup, you will start to see a large influx of the Black Swan or Mali as they too prepare to nest and breed. Flowers that will start to emerge include the blues and purples.

Maylands campus has a newly planted bush tucker garden which has a young Blue Lilly Pilly (Syzygium oleosum) or  Wanduin/Ganai. We look forward to snacking on these berries in the future. Wembley campus has this purple flowering Happy Wanderer (Hardenbergia violacea) covering the Middle school Water tank!

Mr Max is due to start propagating more of this plant from the Wildspace nature ‘fence’ to plant and cover the Perimeter fence of the school.

As the season comes to a close, you should also start to notice the white flowers of the Weeping Peppermint (Agonis flexuosa) with examples in the Galup car park outside of the Wembley campus as the blues start to make way for the white and cream flowers of the “Djilba” season.