5.3
Seasonal calendar
What to do when. Timings follow the seasons this project worked to; adjust for your own district and season.
| Season | Monitoring | On-ground work |
|---|---|---|
| Summer Dec–Feb |
Summer bird survey (3.5). Check the listening station and cameras. | Little. Avoid working in the bush on hot or windy days. Map weeds you can see while walking. |
| Autumn Mar–May |
Autumn bird survey. Hollow-bearing tree transect (4.6). Habitat structure survey (3.3). Photo points. | Autumn-germinating weeds appear — cape tulip among them (4.3). Begin the season’s weed control. |
| Winter Jun–Aug |
Winter bird survey. Nocturnal thermal surveys (3.9). | Weed orchid emerges from June. Woody weed control. Check and clean nest boxes before breeding season (4.7). |
| Spring Sep–Nov |
The big one: the species walk with iNaturalist (3.2). Spring bird survey. Photo points. | Get bulb and tuber weeds out before seed set — weed orchid seeds from late November. Spring weed control. |
Once only, at the start
Set up photo points and monitoring plots (3.1), and pull your fire history and vegetation type (1.2, 1.3). None of it takes long and everything else depends on it.
The first spring is the one that matters
If you do one thing in the year after a fire, walk the block in the first spring with a camera. Much of what appears then will not be visible again for decades.
Needed
Your review of the weed control windows once the species-by-species guidance in 4.3 is settled. This table is only as good as those timings.