Category Archives: Toolern Creek

Eynesbury and Toolern Creek – May 2020

By Peter Bennet

After months of being locked in our monastic cells it perhaps wasn’t surprising that the carrier pigeon almost collapsed under the sudden rush of responses to the outing email! And with all those birds out there fading away from not being looked at, the first post-lockdown expedition was something of a mercy mission. Continue reading

Eynesbury – August 2015

On a beautiful winters day 25 avid bird photographers met at Eynesbury, near Melton.

Once a working farm and now one of Melbourne’s newest suburbs, Eynesbury has a 268 hectare grey box forest and an ornamental lake. The grey box forest attracts some woodland birds that are difficult to find closer to Melbourne. The ornamental lake is close to the homestead and is always worth a look. Continue reading