Re: FW: [canberrabirds] Newline

[Sue Lashko <>]

Obviously in hindsight I should have climbed the tree and had a peek inside, but after some nifty moves to avoid the bull earlier on, tree climbing was not high on my agenda.

 

Sue

 

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Geoffrey Dabb <> wrote:

Stephanie Haygarth has sent me a photo of an apparent Lace Monitor that was near the Tuggeranong town centre in February.

 

From: martin butterfield [
Sent: Tuesday, 19 March 2013 8:19 PM
To: Peter Ormay
Cc: Geoffrey Dabb;
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Newline

 

Here is a picture of the beast to which Peter referred.  It was 5 December 2012.

 

Martin

On 19 March 2013 12:46, Peter Ormay <> wrote:

The common goanna around the ACT is Rosenberg's Goanna. One was seen on the north side of Mt Tennent a couple of months ago by most of the group on a Wednesday Walk by the ACT Native Plant Soc.  The only Lace Monitor recorded up to about 1985 in the ACT was one that lived in an enclosed courtyard at the ANU in the early 80s. It that was later fitted with a transmitter and released on Black Mt. It wintered in a hollow tree after which the transmitter was removed. Soon after that I found it roadkilled on Barry Dr with the imprint of the transmitter still visible on it's back.

 

The nearest population of Lace Monitors to the ACT is at Wee Jasper.