Raakajlim is a 490-hectare conservation property in the Mallee of northwest Victoria, Australia.
Recent blog posts:
I didn’t think I would be ever be sharing photos of ducks on Raakajlim Creek. A truly extraordinary flooding event.
Raakajlim Creek has flooded for the first time in 50 years. But it’s not all good news for our conservation property.
This identification sheet will help you spot the rare Arid Bronze Azure butterfly.
This identification sheet will help you find the “hero ant” that looks after the rare Arid Bronze Azure butterfly.
We’re trying to establish a colony of Sugar Ants so we can observe how this hero ant raises the caterpillars of the Arid Bronze Azure butterfly.
The Caper White butterflies have arrived, bees are swarming, a weekend for Malleefowl, a Giant Scavenging Water Beetle and Swallowtail butterflies.
The Judy-Phil-Fiona direct seeding machine, mysterious cuckoo spit and the secrets of the Invisible Plant revealed.
Exciting news! Soon you will be able to walk the length of Raakajlim on Jesse's Track. Experience the best our conservation property has to offer.
Our seasonal nature diary - December blog posts from previous years…
Regent Parrots eating wattle seed, collecting Pine seed, a “sphexish” wasp and the return of the Black-shouldered Kite.
At this time of year, the Hopbush is looking spectacular. I have mixed feelings about this shrub though. On one hand, it hosts lots of cool insects and birds and is useful for erosion control. But it can be invasive, encroaching and then dominating vegetation communities.
The Poached Egg Daisies were spectacular in Spring 2020, but they’ve finished now and the white fluff is everywhere.
These colorful birds migrate to the southern states in Spring and Summer.
This rare, slow-growing wattle is long-lived and can grow to an immense size.
The Little Button-quail bred in the grasslands on Raakajlim in 2020. Very exciting to see them.
The Zebra Finches are here in numbers which means the Porcupine Grass seed is ripe. Porcupine Grass (Triodia scariosa), sometimes called Spinifex, has an interesting story …
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