Uriarra picnic area (Sunday 21st)- 2 restless flycatchers, 1 dollarbird,
rainbow bee-eaters, 1 kookaburra, peewees on a nest. A number of dy magpies.
Uriarra Village Woodland- (close to corner of Uriarra and Brindabella Rds).
Mainly Yellow box-red gum woodland, expanses of kangaroo grass, and
replantings. This is one of my favourite sites in the ACT. I visited there
Saturday before last (13th). Very windy and cold, but even so I saw 1 sitella,
2 jacky winters- courtship feeding a number of times, 1 white winged triller,
rufous whistlers, 2 white throated gerygones (1 carrying food), 1 western
gerygone. 1 Horsfield's B cuckoo, 30 straw necked ibis, 24 wood ducks., 3 teal.
No diamond firetails (which bred here last year) or sacred king fishers
although they are usually there.
I was shocked to find ½ of the woodland bulldozed! I knew they were going to
expand Uriarra Village, but stupidly assumed they would develop the crappy East
side, the huge expanses of burnt out pine forest, or the 80% of agricultural
land. But no, they decide to develop half of a relatively small patch of good
quality endangered woodland. A woodland that is one of the best spots for
woodland birds in ACT. On the news last night they said 'we are going to hazard
reduce the woodland for the protection of the houses'. So they build right next
to a woodland patch and then decide it is a danger and need to reduce the
hazard of 'fuel'.
On the way home I decided to go towards the Cotter and almost hit 2 red necked
wallabies and a wallaroo.
Benj Whitworth
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