GBS Site 230 in Curtin, has been operating adjacent to Curtin Horse Paddocks since I think 1993 and has surely one of the most extensive species records of
the GBS. The GBS Chart was regularly overfilled with species, I assume this has continued. So COG has a lot of data about this site. He knows who he is and would be nice for him to comment. If anyone wishes to know who, it is public knowledge, just check in
Appendix 3 of The GBS Report.
Philip
From: calyptorhynchus . [
Sent: Monday, 30 March, 2020 11:00 AM
To: Canberra Birds; Rosemary Blemings
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] abundance of White-winged Trillers this season [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
I only walk infrequently along the Curtin bike track and of course the actual paddocks area can only be accessed by horse owners.
However I’d say the the whole green corridor along Yarralumla Creek is valuable and I’d be sad to see the area built over.
On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 at 19:42 Rosemary Blemings <> wrote:
Greetings John and Brian,
These are old emails but my interest in them relates to the Curtin Horse Paddocks.
How important is the Horse Paddocks area for birds and the COG members who seek them there?
I understand there is a move for the ACT Government to transfer the Horse Paddocks land to the Commonwealth for the purpose of making the land available for more Embassies.
I apologise if you and COG are aware of this ‘deal’ and if I’m way behind in my awareness of these matters.
The recent gleeful announcement that the ACT Government’s plans for redeveloping “West Basin” have been progressed by the National Capital Authority’s permission for the change is despicable at a time when the community is being forced
into survival mode by the Covid19 outbreak and will have minimal capacity to hold governments to account.
On 29 Nov 2019, at 9:59 am, Hawkins, Brian <> wrote:
I haven’t seen them there in previous years either John, but I cycle along that track most days, and for the last month or two there have often been trillers
calling at the North Curtin Ovals and again near the Scrivener Dam carpark.
A friend reported seeing > 10 trillers in the Naas valley yesterday, including fledged young.
There were twenty or so feeding this morning along the Curtin Bike Track between Curtin and Yarralumla Creek (where the Horse Paddocks are on the other side of the Creek) around 7 this morning. I have never seen them there before.
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