Fruit bats at Commonwealth Park

To:	Robin Hide <>
Subject:	Fruit bats at Commonwealth Park
From:	Alberta Hayes <>
Date:	Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:37:19 +1100

Hey everyone,

My friend Scotty and I went to Commonwealth Park on Monday and found the flying foxes. There were about 50 of them just to the right of the stage. At the Canberra Naturalists Meeting last week the speaker was a bat specialist and told the group that the flying foxes there had been moving onto the fruit trees at Pialligo for dinner of a night.

Alberta Hayes, Monash.

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Robin Hide <> wrote:

Speaking of flying foxes/fruit bats, I'm not sure if anyone has noted this so far, but the summer colony/camp of fruit bats is back in the pine trees in Commonwealth Park near Regatta Point, at least they were a few days ago. This is about the same time they wee reported in Feb 2008. Numbers not great at the moment, at a glance.Were they there last year?
Robin Hide

Nick Payne wrote:

At the moment we have flying foxes coming in at night to feed on our figs. The birds are still feeding in the fig tree as well...there were several wattle birds in the tree when I arrived home about half an hour ago.

Nick

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