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royal spoonbills

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Subject: royal spoonbills
From: Elizabeth Compston <>
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2015 11:55:27 +0000
I went to Kelly's this morning and was very upset to see that the tree in the 
lake where royal spoonbills had nested in 2008-09 had been removed.  This tree 
was historic. Many COG members observed at least some stage of this breeding 
event. The birds were observed from the courting stage to final flight, of the 
juveniles, from the tree.  Geoffrey Dabb and I followed the whole sequence of 
events, with Geoffrey taking many photographs.  It was one of the highlights of 
my birding career.

Martin Butterfield wrote two articles of this breeding.  I believe that it is 
the only known complete breeding event of royal spoonbills in the ACT

Why was the tree cut down?  I thought that some time ago we discussed with 
Michael that the tree should not be destroyed.  Even as just a skeleton it 
should have been left.  It was an important part of the history of Kelly's.

Elizabeth Compston
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