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A regent honeyeater perched on a thin branch, black head and back with pale scalloped markings down the breast, bright yellow edging on the wing and tail, and a small identification band on one leg.

31 Aug 20265 min read

Counting regent honeyeaters in the Chiltern ironbark

The forest at the edge of town looks like nothing much. It holds one of the rarest birds in the country, and twice a year people go out and count them.

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A row of nineteenth century shopfronts along a country main street, a newsagent with painted newspaper signs across its verandah, and drapers and emporium signage further down the row under a clear blue sky.

24 Aug 20265 min read

When Disney turned Chiltern into a town called Barambogie

In 1974 a Disney crew gravelled Chiltern's main street, took the signs down and filmed the town as a place called Barambogie. What changed, and what stayed.

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Bare grapevines trained along wire trellises in a dormant vineyard, rows running back to a distant tree line under a clear blue sky, with yellow wildflowers growing between the vines.

17 Aug 20266 min read

Budburst season in Rutherglen's old vineyards

Out toward Rutherglen the old vines are waking up. What budburst looks like, why it happens in a set order, and the frost that still has to be watched for.

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A red-brick colonial homestead with a corrugated iron hipped roof and two brick chimneys, seen through an overgrown cottage garden of roses and shrubs under a clear blue sky.

27 July 20265 min read

Henry Handel Richardson and the house by the lake

A novelist who wrote under a man's name spent eighteen months of her childhood in Chiltern. The house she lived in is still standing on Victoria Street.

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A male red-capped robin perched on a branch in the Chiltern bush, a small grey bird with a bright scarlet cap and breast, sharp against a soft winter-brown background.

29 June 20266 min read

Winter school holidays in Chiltern: small adventures for cold days

Sixteen days of winter holiday, a small town in the high country, and children who want something to do. A guide to the cold weeks in Chiltern with kids: birds to find, a museum to thaw out in, and a morning at the bakery.

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Main Street in Chiltern, Victoria. Low historic shopfronts on both sides of a wide country-town road, mature trees, a single car parked at an angle.

26 May 20266 min read

A slow weekend in Chiltern

Winter in the high country: short days, low warm light, and the kind of small town that asks to be walked slowly. A weekend guide to Chiltern for the months when the cafe windows fog and the streets quiet down by five.

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