At the end of November I did a typical stroll crossing over the fences. I did not find I was in a ‘closed area’ until I came back out at the horse gate. The notices seem to be for path-users.
On the subject of closed areas see the below from the Orienteering newsletter. Long-range pedestrian hylacola-spotters welcome.
2. CLOSURE OF VANITY'S CROSSING ROAD
Gates have been installed at each end of Vanity's Crossing Road to stop vehicles accessing the area. These gates will remain open until 6 January 2012, when they will be permanently locked to reduce the likelihood of contamination of the water supply to Cotter Dam. Access will still be permitted by bicycle or on foot.
From: John Leonard [
Sent: Wednesday, 21 December 2011 9:51 AM
To: Canberra Birds
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Campbell Park closed
Pardon me for not reading an ACT government website 6 months ago!
My point is that it is far more efficient if someone who knows that a nature reserve or whatever is going to be closed they could just drop a note to this chatline, then everyone would know.
Either that or we all have to trawl the ACT government website individually and regularly.
John Leonard
On 21 December 2011 07:36, martin butterfield <> wrote:
See http://www.tams.act.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/237062/FAQs.pdf for the story - which starts in July 2011!
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 7:24 AM, John Leonard <m("gmail.com","calyptorhynchus");" target="_blank">> wrote:
I found this morning that Campbell Park north of the 'horse-gate' fence is closed. There's a notice to explain that the closure is so unexploded ordinance can be searched for and that this closure has been "extended" to 21 January 2012.
In other words this closure has been in place for some time.
So why hasn't someone noted this on Canberrabirds before now? I would have thought that someone could have done this already to alert birders to divert to other spots, especially as CP is such a prime birding sitet.
In the bit of the Park I could walk in this morning I spotted Leaden Flycatcher, White-winged Triller and a Sparrowhawk spectacularly chasing Noisy Miners. I could hardly miss the large nos of Red Wattlebirds and Noisy Friarbirds attracted to the Yellow Box flowering.
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John Leonard
Canberra
Australia
www.jleonard.net
I want to be with the 9,999 other things.
