Newline gate and brown treecreepers

["Leo Berzins" <>]

I have been a fairly regular visitor to Newline over the last couple of months and I have never seen more than three Brown Treecreepers (but then again, I still have my 'L' plates on in the birdwatching caper).

 

Two weeks ago (Saturday 5th) at about 7:30am I was spoken to be someone who was possibly a plain clothes policeman or a private security guard in a silver Honda Prelude who had driven slowly down the road to the quarry and back and was waiting for me to return to my car near the site of the new gate. He asked if I knew that I was on private property. I informed him that I did and that I had spoken to the owner a couple of years ago who had told me that he didn't mind birdwatchers being there. My interrogator informed me that the gentleman who leases the property was a very cranky gentleman at the moment because there had been some unwelcome incidents in the area recently such as cars being torched. This may be the reason for the new gate. Hopefully, birdwatching access will continue unchanged.

 

Leo.