Fruit bats at Commonwealth Park

[Mat Farrington <>]

A few were in these trees in O'Connor at 9pm on Sunday: http://is.gd/8oIfx

My first experience of them in Canberra.

Alberta Hayes wrote:
> *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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