Hi Cheryl,
I worked on both the WTP and Avalon airport whilst completing
fieldwork for my PhD. I was mainly interested in Brown falcons, but
was amazed at how quickly just about all bird species there
habituated to the (very to extremely!) loud noises of the various
aircraft. Birds on the farm where fairly relaxed about flyovers for
the most part, at the most looking up at the aircraft. I suspect
ducks etc on Lake Borrie would be less tolerant, but most planes seem
to fly over the T-section areas only. A pair of browns at the time
had dependent young on a nest tree over looking the main 'stall' area
within the airport, ie lots of people and noise, and carried on
provisioning as per normal without apparent effect either.
In fact, to my surprise, my impression was that the event seemed to
affect me more than the birds as short-term hired security flexed
their muscle and new-found status on occasions.
Moreover, they are probably fairly used to aircraft noise,
particularly post-Jetstar, as it was not unusual for pilots to be
practicing their take-offs/landings (stop-goes) most weeks. The
constant noise of low jets could be quite annoying after a few hours
spent on the western side of the farm!
Cheers,
Paul
On 21/03/2007, at 1:06 PM, Cheryl Ridge wrote:
Hi folks
With the Airshow on this week I am merely curious
about how it effects the birdlife (if at all) around
the Avalon and WTP area. I have not been there for a
while and would most likely tend to avoid it while
there are airshows on simply because of maddening
crowds/traffic.
Am interested to hear other people's experiences -
whether they have been birding down that way this week
or are likely to. Or how they have found things around
the time of previous airshows.
Thanks
Cheryl
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