hailstorm after efffecs

[Martin Gascoigne <>]

One noticeable absence from my garden in Stokes Street Griffith is the absence of the satin bowerbirds - we normally  hear/see five or six each morning (male, female, juvenile - though I am a novice at recognition) - and on visits during te day to the water dish  I have for them (an others). But at least  three crimson rosellas  are still visiting, and there are blue wrens passing through.

With considerable loss of fruit on my hawthorn and crab apples,  which attract many birds in autumn, I see a rather bleak  season ahead for them .

Martin Gascoigne

On 21 Jan 2020, at 4:58 pm, John Harris <> wrote:

Your post worked perfectly Les and thanks for sharing it.

In all the very laudable publicity given to the damage to wildlife in the fires, for many people animal = furry mammal and much less publicity is given to birds, reptiles and so on – even I hear native freshwater fish. Loss of habitat will very adversely affect many birds. Those who  may have fled the fires may not be able to regroup in a sufficiently suitable habitat.

 

 

 

 

From: Les Main <>
Date: Tuesday, 21 January 2020 at 4:00 pm
To: chatline <>
Subject: [canberrabirds] Fires

 

Just thought I would post this image taken this morning.

COG members that came on the Tumut outing last year will remember this as the exact spot 2 Lyrebirds were flushed and flew straight over our heads.

It used to be thick understorey and closed canopy. It is the "Old Mountain Road Walk" Kosciuszko NP. I did hear a Currawong calling this morning but I don’t think we will see Lyrebirds for a very long time.

The Kosciuszko NP has burnt from Blowering to Kiandra and beyond on both sides of the highway, and was heading to the Brindabellas and the ACT. It is the "Dunns Road" fire. I  believe it is now under control.

Very disheartening but lucky it has been stopped.

(this is my first ever post, I hope it works)

 

Les Main

 

 

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