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["Jack and Andrea Holland" <>]

Oolong Sanctuary has approached COG for some assistance with leading the bird walks during this community event.  If you are able to do so, particularly if you might be familiar with the sanctuary (perhaps through an earlier COG walk) please let me know.

 

Please note that for this date only leaders are sought and that it is different from the planned COG outing there on Sunday 9 April which will allow COG members to visit.

 

Jack Holland

 

 

A long term of natural resource management - with a strong focus on scientific research and education - for protecting the wetland and woodland, to recreate habitat that meets the needs of native species and to link vegetation habitat/remnants together to allow movement of species within them. The Sanctuary is supported by the community and corporate sectors, through the Friends of Oolong Inc., and works cooperatively with Government agencies.

www.pcug.org.au/~gianni

PO Box 17

Dalton, NSW 2581

Ph/Fax: 02 4845 6267

Mobile: 0423 200202

 

Program:

OOLONG COMMUNITY EVENTS, 2006:

 

(1)

Bird watching tours

 

25 MARCH: FROM 9 TO 11AM AND FROM 2 TO 4PM

 

26 MARCH: FROM 9 TO 11AM

 

These tours are conducted by a well-known birds specialist: Dr Tony Saunders, Record Officer of the Cumberland Bird Observers? Club and NSW Facilitator for the National Atlas for Birds, Australia and member of the Friends of Oolong Scientific Advisory Board (Also volunteers from Canberra Ornithologist Group (COG).

(2)

"Introduction to wildlife in woodlands"

 

26 MARCH

(actual time to be finalized)

 

This tour is conducted by Dr Rebecca Montague-Drake, from the Centre for Resource and the Environmental Studies, ANU. 

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The purposes:

 

1) This event is part of our educational program and to promote membership amongst the communities and schools in the ACT and SE NSW.

 

2) To have teachers of schools within 100km from Oolong (by invitation with snail letters to all schools) to value our tours and eventually participate in our school education program as described in our Web Site.

 

Advertising:

The event to be advertised in the Lions newsletter with distribution in Gunning, Dalton, Goulburn and Yass ($100 for a flier and $70 for a four line for the year), the Chronicle, 100.3 FM Yass Community Radio Station and possibly WIN and Prime.

 

Food and beverage:

The tours is dry and supply just water on demand.

 

Charges: No charges for this weekend event but donations accepted.

 

We have a bird watching tour at $10 per person available every day of the week by appointment. We tour follows stations set on a map prepared by the Canberra Ornithologist Group. Written note on all birds at each marked station of the tour. 

 

We hope to make this an annual event.