The site title image, featuring the title Red Gum Gully Our Patch with pictures of gum leaves either side.
  • Children Playing with worms
  • Red Gum Gully
  • Children playing with caterpillars

    • Wildlife and Flora


    Wildlife

    Red Gum Gully is home to many animals including:

    Marsupials

    Koala, Common Brushtail Possum, Common Ringtail Possum

    Birds

    Many species including Adelaide Rosella, Kookaburra, Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo, Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, Galah, Tawny Frogmouth, Superb Fairy Wren

    Bats

    Four species - Lesser Long-eared Bat, Gould’s Wattled Bat, Little Forest Bat and White-striped Mastiff

    Reptiles

    Copper-headed Skink, Blue Tongue Lizard, Marbled Gecko, Red Belly Black and Eastern Brown Snake

    Frogs

    Common Froglet and Brown Tree Frog

    Invertebrates

    Butterflies, Native worm, Dragonfly and water bugs

    Flora


    The reserve features Red Gum and Grey Box open woodland. It contains important remnant vegetation with 22 native species regenerating. Remnant species include Red Gum, Grey Box, Golden Wattle, Grasses (Iron, Kangaroo, Wallaby and Spear), Vanilla Lilly, native convolvulus, sedges and rushes. During the wetter months the group’s focus is on planting species of local provenance including Sheoak, Wattle, Christmas bush, Native Lilac, sedges and grasses.