We travelled to and from the
Warriewood Wetlands in a bus.

Today we went to Warriewood Wetlands.

We heard many different native birds, we saw many native trees and shrubs, we smelt fresh horse droppings, fresh running water and many native trees.

We felt long grass against our legs and branches brushing on our shoulders. 

Emma & Holly

We wrote down what we could
hear, see, smell and feel at the waterfall.

The teacher told us to sit down and write what we saw, write what we smelt, write what we heard, and write what we felt. These are some words we wrote;

birds, grass, trees, people, hot, sky, reed and the sun.

By Rhys & Daniel

We sketched the waterfall.

We heard a waterfall running down the rocks.

We saw lots of water rushing down the rocks,

and at the bottom there was lots of moss.

We also smelt water, trees and fresh air.

We felt sand under our bottoms and in our shoes.

By Ashleigh & Elle.

Mrs Fraser helped us identify
birds by their call.

Bird Listening

Mrs Fraser identified lorikeets, whipbirds,

currawongs and robins by listening to the

birds' calls.

By William and Peter.  

Mrs Smith showed us a water
dragon on a rock over the other
side of the waterfall.

We saw a big lizard called a water dragon.

We saw signs of human impact such as graffiti on a rock face, rubbish from a picnic, plastic bottles in the water, a bulldozer working, houses backing onto the bushland, weeds that had grown from seeds of plants introduced to Australia by humans.

We saw horse droppings full of seeds - the horses do not come by themselves - people ride them through the Warriewood Wetlands.

We walked through the bush
listening for birds and looking
for weeds.

While we were walking we had to find different kinds of weeds.

Some of the weeds we found were lantana, morning glory, white lily and honeysuckle.

By Nicole and Amanda.

In the tree behind Andrew you
can see dead lantana. It used
to grow up higher than
Andrew's head and it eventually kills the tree.

We sat on the grass and listened to Andrew McGahey. Andrew McGahey of Total Earth Care told us about how
the area is being regenerated.

Andrew is a nature friendly person. He taught us how to identify plants. He said that the wetlands covered nearly 30 hectares.

He told us about pests in the Wetlands such as horses, dogs, cats, ferrets, foxes and rabbits.