Bats

[Anne Carrick <>]

Last Friday afternoon (25 January) I found an electrocuted
flying fox on the electricity wires outside my house in Braddon.  By
early on Saturday morning it had released its hold on the wire and fallen
to the ground.  It was in remarkably good condition, so I collected
and froze it.  On Friday (1 February - it took me a while to
discover where to take it) it was donated to the Australian National
Wildlife Collection at CSIRO, where it was identified as a little red
flying fox.   The timing and status (the one I found was dead
on Friday) indicates that these are separate individuals.

Anne  

At 10:41 PM 1/02/2008 +1100, Damien Farine wrote:

hmmm.. don't think my work email is coming through to COG so I'll try it from here:

A little red flying fox was brought into the museum at CSIRO earlier this week.. it was found dying in Braddon last Saturday.

Damien

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Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 22:19:08 +1100

Subject: [canberrabirds] Bats

Shortly before nine o'clock this evening (Friday), my partner Robyn and I  were sitting on the north facing verandah of our humble shack in west Queanbeyan enjoying a quiet glass of wine or  two (Pewsey Vale riesling and O'Leary Walker shiraz, if you must know) when our  attention was drawn skyward by the appearance of some large, silent ariborne creatures flying less than fifty metres above us in a south-easterly direction. They weren't in a close flock, but over the course of the next  five minutes or so, we would have seen at least thirty fly over our airspace. Locking onto one of them with my now ever-present binoculars, I glimpsed the distinctive silhouhette of bat wings. Sizewise, they looked larger than a currawong and probably closer to a raven (estimation in poor light).

 

It seems that is not a one-off sighting, as Robyn saw some similar airborne creatures at the same time yesterday evening flying in the same direction.

 

Our estimation of their flight path is that they were coming from the general direction fo Mount Ainslie.

 

Where were they heading? What species of bat were they? Are they temporarily locally resident like the Grey-headed Flying-foxes a couple of years ago at Regatta Point?

 

Any suggestions welcome.

 

Regards,

Leo.

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