Not true!
Twenty to thirty years ago there was a large salt pan type of pond
that held significant numbers of waders, particularly at high tide! we
used to squeeze around the gate and walk around it. (None of this
insurance rubbish then)!
I'd say the waders at Homebush are reduced by about 80 - 90% now! It
was never a healthy habitat though for humans and it still had the
bell frogs across the road a bit too!
It went downhill dramatically when they "improved the habitat" just
before the Olympics. It did improve it for Aus White Ibis though!
Alan
On 18/03/2009, at 09:04 , Graham W wrote:
Hi
I suppose everyone has read this article.
I am a frequent visitor to the Sydney Olympic Park but had little idea
of this issue until I started investigating it after reading a letter
in the last issue of Wingspan.
John Dengate's statement designed to cover the lack of action of the
NSW State Government --"Twenty years ago the place was some sort of
ghastly wasteland. Birds couldn't live there at all."
--is probably a fabrication and not true at all. Twenty years back is
not so very long ago - does anyone here remember birds there at that
time?
GrahamW
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