Our Wonderful Wetlands

Come, visit our wetlands and we will show you how things change from season to season.

This page is full of photographs of our wetlands so is therefore very graphic intensive.  Please be patient while the page loads up.

Our school, Westfield Park Primary, is lucky because we have our own wetlands called Heron Reserve. Lots of other schools don’t have their own wetlands.

It is a home for a variety of different animals like the Heron, our school emblem.

Year Six students from rooms 15, 16 and 17 participated in a series of actvities designed to develop an understanding of wetlands in Australia and the world. See Understanding Wetlands.

Heron of Heron Reserve

Here are some of our birds that live in and around our wetlands:
Blue Southwestern Swamp Hens, Great Egrets, Coots, Magpies, Black-Throated Grebes, Dusky Moorhens, Mountain and Black Ducks, Domestic Geese, Australian Pelicans, White Ibis, Clamorous Reed Warblers, Little Pied Cormorants and Black Swans.
Here are some of our reptiles:
Long Neck Turtle and Tiger Snake.
There are also some amphibians like frogs and arachnids such as spiders.
Last year the council came to our school and cleared a lot of introduced reeds to enable native reeds to make a comeback.
They also planted some native trees and bushes.
People from other schools visit our wetlands for science and environmental things.

Now you know how special our wetlands are!

Here are some of the wonderful photos that the Year 7s (Room 18) took when they visited the wetlands with the Year Ones from Rooms 1 and 2 on Wednesday, 22nd March, 2000.
The Summer was just ending and Autumn was beginning.

To see what the wetlands looked like in winter of 1999 have a look at Winter Wetlands
To see another wetland environment go to Bibra Lake on Other Wetlands page.
Also look at Month by Month at the Wetlands by our Computer Club.
 

		The Egret went off to find some food by itself and was a long distance away, so the photo isn't quite as clear as it could have been.