THE PATCH OF WOODLAND AT OAKS ESTATE. Directions to
this spot are straightforward: it is between the OLD bridge over the OLD
railway line to Cooma, the OLD abattoirs (recently demolished) and the OLD
tannery - and contains one of the finest mounds of OLD waste in the
ACT. It is also the haunt of Old Swoop, the goshawk. Over several
seasons Bob Rusk, the former Queanbeyan resident , defied the onslaughts to
plot the various locations of the nest of this pair. In the last 3 years
the swooping has been less determined, so perhaps OS has mellowed or been
replaced by a more diffident male. Less than one in 5 nesting pairs
around Canberra seems to contain an aggressive swooper, which is just as well
given their numbers. Also shown is a pair of G Currawongs that are
resident in the area.
