Good morning COG/Canberra Birds members and chat line subscribers, a reminder that our first formal monthly will be held tomorrow evening Wednesday 11 February from 7:30 pm.
This is also a final reminder that there has been a change in venue
as detailed in bold red below.
In addition, to help guide your way once there the Canberra Birds Sandwich
Boards will be outside the front door and at the top of the stairs/lift.
In addition chairs will need to be set up before the meeting, and put away after.
Everyone is welcome so please come along to
learn more about the Saving the Western Edge Campaign and the different ways you can become involved.
You will also be able to enjoy a cup of tea or coffee after the meeting.
Jack Holland
Speakers for this meeting will be:
Dr Simon Copland - Saving Canberra's Western Edge
Kim Farley -
the bird fauna of the
Woodland of west Stromlo including Uriarra TSR.
Temporary change of meeting venue for Canberra Birds
The Canberra Birds committee has decided to change the venue for our monthly members' meetings, at least until renovations of the Canberra Girls Grammar School’s
Multi-media Theatre are complete, expected in August/September 2026.
The new venue is the Bugang Room at the Denman Village Community Centre, located at 5 Felstead Vista, adjacent to the Denman Prospect shops (see Google Maps
link
https://maps.app.goo.gl/NqW3XrN5iJf8dzRe9)
This is a light, spacious, modern event venue with a kitchen. There is plentiful parking, under lights, close to the door and with several disabled parking spots outside the
door. The room is on the first floor, accessed by two flights of stairs or by a lift.
For people attending the meeting by public transport, the R10 bus provides a very good service around every 15 minutes from the ANU through Civic to the Denman Prospect shops
with the bus stop opposite the venue. For example, a bus runs to there from 6:57 to 7:23 pm and return buses at 9:05 or 9:35 pm arriving at the ANU at 9:31 and 10:01 pm, respectively.
The first speaker will be
Dr Simon Copland, Executive Director of the Conservation Council ACT Region on “Saving Canberra's Western Edge”.
Canberra’s Western Edge, a beautiful area of critically endangered ecosystems to Canberra’s west, is up for unsustainable, unaffordable and dangerous development by the ACT Government.
In this presentation, Simon will talk about the importance of this region, the threats it faces, and what we can do to ensure it is preserved.
This important area is bordered by the Murrumbidgee River and the regions of Kambah, Weston Creek, the Molonglo Valley and Belconnen, and thus likely to be of great
interest to many members. Therefore there will be plenty of time allowed for questions after.
As an example of the values of the Western Edge Kim Farley will then present
about the bird fauna of one of her favourite sites, the “Woodland of west Stromlo and includes Uriarra TSR.”
The area of this site is almost as big as Bluetts Block and very close to it and forms part of a corridor that runs from the Murrumbidgee over to the Molonglo. It is officially
part of Stromlo Forest Park though fenced off from it and is an area of grassy box woodland with some remarkable old trees on it. It has a bird list of 108 species on eBird.
