Ingleside Park

Location & Description

Ingleside Park is located on the eastern side of Ingleside Road and is located on top of the Ingleside escarpment. The area includes both Ingleside Park and the adjoining Ingleside Reserve totalling 9.3 ha of bushland. The northern tributary of Mullet Creek flows across the West south-west corner of the park, into the adjoining bushland on private property and into Irrawong Reserve downstream.

The Reserve is currently bordered on 3 sides by natural bushland, with the Park entrance area adjacent to the Westpac Training College on its western boundary.

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Plants

The vegetation of Ingleside Park consists of Hawkesbury Sandstone Open-forest dominated by Smooth-barked Apple (Angophora costata) and Red Bloodwood (Corymbia gummifera).

Animals

As part of the large expanse of bushland in the area, Ingleside Park has a diverse range of animals. Apart from this contiguity to surrounding habitat, it contains a range of features beneficial to animals. These include rocky outcrops, fallen logs and leaf litter in which reptiles can harbour. These features and the provision of a creek also make the site suitable for frogs. Habitat components important to birds are the range of plans from which they can collect pollen or take insects, tree hollows and decorticating bark for nesting and protective foliage cover.

Animals include:

• Brown Goshawk
• Powerful owl
• Long-nosed Bandicoot
• Ring-tailed Possum
• Sugar Glider
• Masked Owe
• Pheasant Coucal
• Giant Burrowing Frog
• Red-Crowned Toadlet

Special Features

• it protects an example of relatively undisturbed bushland of Ingleside and is continuous with other naturally vegetated land on the escarpment
• it provides habitat for three threatened species in NSW, namely Powerful Owl, Giant Burrowing Frog and Red-crowned Toadlet and the regionally significant Pheasant Coucal
• it is classified as a major habitat area in Council’s Habitat and Wildlife Corridors Conservation Strategy, with a high degree of biodiversity and acts as an important habitat and link to the other habitat for animal species movement
• it provides potential habitat for two significant plant species, Platysace clelandii, a Rare or Threatened Australian Plant and Pultenaea hispidla
• it is a reserve which is relatively free of urban impacts and is an important local reference site
• it contributes to the landscape quality of Ingleside, has expansive views of the Warriewood Valley and ocean, and provides an important natural escarpment as a visual backdrop to the coast as a record of the original landscape
• it is an educational resource and a contact point with nature for residents
• it allows urban residents to undertake informal recreational pursuits in a bushland setting
• it allows the study of post-fire response of vegetation
• it provides an example of bushland in similar condition to that which occurred when the area was first visited by Europeans.
  

Related Info

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• For more information see the Ingleside Park Plan of Management
• Warriewood/Ingleside Escarpment Bushfire Management Plan
• Warriewood/Ingleside Escarpment (North) Plan of Management
• Find out more about Pittwater's amazing Vegetation Communities
• See the native animal species lists for Pittwater