You might have noticed the clearing for new industrial land
around the old abattoirs site: the ACT’s latest dust-bowl
- although perhaps mud today. It might have been hard to justify
retaining it as it was, a derelict building and a particularly sad-looking
scrap-yard. However, some fine old trees have gone. The bulldozers
came within a few metres of the tree used by the pair of goshawks that have
returned to the area each year for at least the last 10. The good news,
according to the supervisor today, is that the clearing has reached its limit for
the time being, so the pair have a few weeks to raise their young if they are
not too stressed by the encroachment.
