Great Crested Grebes, good news and bad news.

[shorty via Canberrabirds <>]

Hi All,

Last Wednesday the GCG's started building a nest at West Belconnen Pond and the small number of us birders that knew have been keeping it quiet in fear that what I call the Social Media Photographers ( SMP's ) would find out about it.

This group that I call SMP's are not birders and have no respect or care of the wellbeing of the birds that they photograph, in the past they have been known to set up chairs over Rainbow Bee-eaters nests to get shots of the adults with food for the young in the burrow just to get some photos, they have also been known to cut branches to get better shots of nesting birds.

On Sunday a Ranger visited the location and with dismay he noticed that someone has been trampling the reeds to get closer to the nest, this is environmental destruction and against the laws of wildlife harassment. Not being a Nature Reserve the Ranger has no power to block off the area. Perhaps someone would know who to contact to try and get this done?

Also if anyone is out there and see's one of these SMP's in the reeds take a photo and report them please.

Not my photo but supplied to me to post with permission taken from the opposite bank.

Shorty

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