I absolutely agree Maryanne
How will they escape from predators once their little feet are caught in the mesh ? extremely dangerous .
Denise Kay
Denise Kay
Flying–fox Coordinator
ACT Wildlife
0467506167
From: Canberrabirds <>
On Behalf Of Maryanne Gates via Canberrabirds
Sent: Wednesday, 14 September 2022 6:22 PM
To: Geoffrey Dabb <>
Cc: Canberrabirds <>
Subject: Re: [Canberrabirds] At dairy road today
I wish I had a dollar for every bird that I've had come into care tangled in that mesh. Looks like a disaster waiting to happen :-(
Maryanne Gates
Bird Coordinator
Wildcare Queanbeyan Inc
PO Box 1404 Queanbeyan NSW 2620
www.wildcare.com.au
0411 422 897
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On Wed, 14 Sept 2022 at 12:17, Geoffrey Dabb <> wrote:
This morning’s photo from Dairy Road shows a Black-fronted Dotterel with a field of droplets on the nylon mesh evidently used to protect the coming crop of turf.
Despite what you might think, the mesh did not seem to affect the foraging bird. Alert followers of this chatline and the royal funeral arrangements might have noticed that the same type of aircraft recently shown from the same point in this series was used
yesterday to fly Princess Anne and Her Majesty’s coffin from Edinburgh to London, a C-17 Globemaster. According to
The Scotsman the same individual aircraft was used in operations in Afghanistan and Ukraine.
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