Nature Foundation is proud to support the 2023 Nature Festival as a Festival Partner and by hosting two events as part of the program.

Nature Festival is a two-week celebration of our love of nature in South Australia, and from 1-15 October 2023, it offers over three hundred events for all ages, full of creative ways to connect with nature and each other.

The second of our events was Birds & Bingo, held on Saturday, 7 October 2023 at Bec Hardy Wines.

The premise was relatively straightforward: enjoy some wine and food while playing some rounds of bingo, interspersed with bird-related conversation.

The afternoon was hosted by bingo master, bird nerd and keen nature photographer Sputnik, who kept the group entertained with his bird-related numeral rhymes and discussions with Nature Foundation team members Alex Nankivell (CEO) and Dr Lucy Clive (Acting Science and Knowledge Manager), as well as Bec Hardy (Nature Foundation Board Director and owner/winemaker at Bec Hardy Wines).

Lucy shared the conservation activities at Watchalunga Nature Reserve supporting the Mount Lofty Ranges Southern Emu-wren. Alex then shared his study of raptors at Witchelina Nature Reserve, including their interesting diet of bearded dragons.

Bec shared her early recollections of Nature Foundation, with her grandmother, Dr Barbara Hardy AO, being one of its founders, along with her current involvement with the Foundation and the various activities undertaken across the winery to support sustainability.

Guests enjoyed delicious food and wine from the Bec Hardy Wines kitchen in the impressive barrel shed, with a number winning prizes through their bingo efforts.

It was an enjoyable afternoon with several guests asking when the next would occur!

View photos from the afternoon on Facebook here.