Hi Birders,
While Fox baiting is a worthwhile thing to do in managing Little Tern
colonies and other wildife, It is not always an permissable thing to do if
the site to be baited is within 400 m of a human residence/ caravan park
etc. Here at Karagi Point, The Entrance on the NSW Central Coast it is not
an option because the site is so close to human habitation and everyone
walks theur dog (illegally of course) along the beach and past the colony!
Currently our Little Tern colony of about 20 pairs are suffering from Human
interference, Ravens and Silver Gulls taking eggs and people walking through
the colony at high tide when at the monent on one side of the beach it is
easier to walk inside the fence rarher than face the waves outside the fence
so the eggs get smashed and the birds disturbed, not to mentiion the spate
of very high tides at the monet washibng away the eggs. So no eggs have
hatched as yet.
Alan Morris
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