Martin,
Having driven past the site quite a few times recently on Canberra buses while I can’t drive, I hold grave fears for the ironbarks in the Belconnen Labour Club car park. There is a sign on the eastern edge of the car park stating that the (?) Government is after expressions of interest in developing the site which I assume means more high-rise units. I have written to the Environment Minister about other conservation issues but as far as I am concerned he is “wasted space” and really appears to have no great interest in the environment at all. Regent Honeyeaters have been recorded in that general area not to mention the many hundreds of Superb Parrots that in the past have used the flowering trees as a food resource. It is all very well putting in nature reserves around the edges of Canberra but they need to be linked so that things can actually get to them. One just has to look around Canberra to see just how many areas that were once bush now have some sort of development on them. We are fighting a losing battle!! So much for the “Bush Capital”!
mark
From: Martin Butterfield [
Sent: Thursday, 21 May 2015 9:54 AM
To: COG List
Subject: [canberrabirds] Ironbarks
In my blogpost yesterday I included a photo of a flowering ironbark at Pine Island and commented how this was not far from where a regent Honeyeater was seen in a similar tree last year. This leads me to think of the trees at the rear of the Labour Club in Belconnen, which when flowering attract a very good crop of large honeyeaters. Do those trees still exist or have they - like most everything in that area - been bulldozed and built over?
