Hi Brian
A night's flying for a flying-fox is a bit closer to 100km, not 250km. A
really large male that is pushing it might make 130km.
I assume you are joking about the flying-foxes being birds. Unfortunately
I've had a humour by-pass (and not for the first time) so I can't tell. If
not, flying-foxes are a mammal, a megabat (or Megachiroptera).
Recently there was spectacular flowering an hour south of Nowra. Most of
Sydney camps emptied out (except for the RBG and Kareela). The camp down
there at the time was estimated to be over 100,000 animals, perhaps as high
as 200,000.
As flying-foxes can be willing to travel 900km (or more) for a good
flowering I don't know where the Bellengin mob might be. And annoyingly,
when they come back, they will not be willing to tell.
cheers
storm
-----Original Message-----
From:
Behalf Of Brian Hawkins
Sent: Wednesday, 19 August 2009 9:29 AM
To:
Subject: Nectar and Flying-foxes on the NSW Mid North
Coast
Something strange has happened in Bellingen on the NSW Mid North Coast - for
only the second time this century, the Flying-fox camp is empty.
Yet there are still moderately good supplies of nectar around (certainly
better than this time last year), with Banksias, Forest Red Gums and some
coastal Blackbutts all flowering.
For the Flying-foxes to have left, there must be intense flowering somewhere
else, probably within a night's flight (around 250km). Other times the
Bellingen camp has emptied, it has been in response to Forest Red Gum
(Eucalyptus tereticornis) blossoming near Bungawalbin, or to White Box
(Eucalyptus albens) blossoming on the north-western slopes.
Does anyone know where the Bellingen Flying-foxes might be?
(A Flying-fox is a bird, right?)
Brian
P.S. A gentleman responded to my last email about Red Wattlebirds to say
this his birding club had, unusually, seen one in southern Queensland. I
wanted to thank him, but his email seems to have disappeared from my
system. Apologies!
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