Events

Friends of Oakley Creek Friday morning working bees provide a weekday opportunity for you to give a helping hand on the creek; and to learn more about our project and biodiversity. Tasks and locations vary, depending on the priorities at the time.

If you would like to be on the email list to receive regular, weekly notifications of what and where, contact Wendy 027 232 6454 or Enable JavaScript to view protected content.

For all activites on the creek sturdy / covered footwear, long sleeves and long trousers are recommended.

Group: Friends of Oakley Creek Te Auaunga

Get your free rat trap and help bring back native birds!

Reducing the numbers of introduced predators (rats, possums etc) gives native birds, skinks geckos and much more a fighting chance to thrive. If you live in Herne Bay, Ponsonby, St Mary’s Bay or Freeman’s Bay, come along and get a free trap for your garden. Each trap comes with a protective safety box which reduces the chance of pets’ paws, kids’ fingers and native birds getting caught in the trap.

We’ll show you how to use the trap safely, effectively and humanely. All we ask in return is that you tell us what you’ve caught and when.

Where: Cox’s Bay Reserve on Kingsley St, accessed off West End Road (see map below).

When: Saturday 9 July, 11am to 1pm.

Live somehere else in inner west Auckland? Check out the Urban Ark website to find your local group.

Group: Predator Free Herne Bay-Ponsonby

Harbutt Reserve - beside Waterview Shared Path and the rail corridor. Sunday 10th July - 10.00am-noon

There are a number of access points to the site:

• Harbutt Avenue - follow the signs / flags along the Waterview Shared Path.
• Soljak Place, off New North Road.
• Trent Street, off Blockhouse Bay Road.

This planting is part of our aim to enhance and expand on our precious ‘remnant mahoe rock forest’ areas, and transition the wider area from ‘privet forest’ into native bush. It will take place at one of the awa’s ‘heritage sites’ so our resident archaeologist, Brent Druskovich, will be with us to brief volunteers and talk about the history of the area.

The planting site is on an old quarry ‘bench’, and access is down an uneven slope. so, as always wear sturdy footwear, and bring a spade and garden gloves - if you have them.

Refreshments will be provided.

For more information contact Wendy - 027 232 6454

Group: Friends of Oakley Creek Te Auaunga

Join Nga Ringa o Te Auaunga, Friends of Oakley Creek, and help us clear the weeds which are overwhelming native plants in the Waterview Heritage Area. Learn a bit more about what makes this place special whilst we work to preserve it.

Meet at the stake park at Waterview Reserve on Waterview Crescent. Please wear stout footwear and clothes that fully cover arms and legs, and we’ll provide tools, gloves and know how.

contact Sandra 021 166 7647

Group: Friends of Oakley Creek Te Auaunga

Friends of Oakley Creek Friday morning working bees provide a weekday opportunity for you to give a helping hand on the creek; and to learn more about our project and biodiversity. Tasks and locations vary, depending on the priorities at the time.

If you would like to be on the email list to receive regular, weekly notifications of what and where, contact Wendy 027 232 6454 or Enable JavaScript to view protected content.

For all activites on the creek sturdy / covered footwear, long sleeves and long trousers are recommended.

Group: Friends of Oakley Creek Te Auaunga

Join Nga Ringa o Te Auaunga, Friends of Oakley Creek, and help us clear the weeds which are overwhelming native plants in the Waterview Heritage Area. Learn a bit more about what makes this place special whilst we work to preserve it.

Meet at the stake park at Waterview Reserve on Waterview Crescent. Please wear stout footwear and clothes that fully cover arms and legs, and we’ll provide tools, gloves and know how.

contact Sandra 021 166 7647

Group: Friends of Oakley Creek Te Auaunga

Friends of Oakley Creek Friday morning working bees provide a weekday opportunity for you to give a helping hand on the creek; and to learn more about our project and biodiversity. Tasks and locations vary, depending on the priorities at the time.

If you would like to be on the email list to receive regular, weekly notifications of what and where, contact Wendy 027 232 6454 or Enable JavaScript to view protected content.

For all activites on the creek sturdy / covered footwear, long sleeves and long trousers are recommended.

Group: Friends of Oakley Creek Te Auaunga

Urban waters aren’t the cleanest, but we dream of a future where we can safely swim in our streams and native fauna can thrive. We’d love to see tītiko (mud-flat snails) in Waitītiko (Meola Creek) and inanga (whitebait) abundant in our awa. The Central Interceptor project should significantly reduce sewage spills, and riparian planting by community groups will help improve water quality, but we’d like to know by how much.

WaiCare (supported by Healthy Waters and Sustainable Schools) is running this two-hour training session so that anyone interested in monitoring our freshwater quality can learn (or refresh) the skills needed. We’ll be measuring air and water temperature, testing the pH, checking phosphate and nitrogen levels, identifying macroinvertebrates (creepy crawlies) in the water sample, and logging the results on the Waicare stream map.

When: Sunday 24 July 10am to noon

Where: Pasadena Reserve, meet on the grass beside the footbridge at 136 Motions Road, almost opposite Auckland Zoo (see photo below).

Who: anyone interested in contributing to freshwater citizen science. Please email if you’d like to take part.

Group: Urban Ark – Manawa Taiao

Join Nga Ringa o Te Auaunga, Friends of Oakley Creek, and help us clear the weeds which are overwhelming native plants in the Waterview Heritage Area. Learn a bit more about what makes this place special whilst we work to preserve it.

Meet at the stake park at Waterview Reserve on Waterview Crescent. Please wear stout footwear and clothes that fully cover arms and legs, and we’ll provide tools, gloves and know how.

contact Sandra 021 166 7647

Group: Friends of Oakley Creek Te Auaunga

Friends of Oakley Creek Friday morning working bees provide a weekday opportunity for you to give a helping hand on the creek; and to learn more about our project and biodiversity. Tasks and locations vary, depending on the priorities at the time.

If you would like to be on the email list to receive regular, weekly notifications of what and where, contact Wendy 027 232 6454 or Enable JavaScript to view protected content.

For all activites on the creek sturdy / covered footwear, long sleeves and long trousers are recommended.

Group: Friends of Oakley Creek Te Auaunga