I apologise in advance as I am hijacking this thread to post re Flying Foxes
in Bateman's Bay. This is very disturbing.
"Environment' Minister Hunt as changed legislation to allow culling of bats
in Batemans Bay, might he do the same for migrating birds?
At a public meeting on Monday 16 May, Minister Greg Hunt declared a
"national interest exemption", removing all rights and protections for the
Flying Foxes, and calling for immediate action against them;
* Two consultancies have been undertaken, both organisations top of their
fields, and both recommending that dispersal in this case will not work.
Hunt committed $50,000 upfront to developing a new plan that takes into
account the revised status of the flying foxes as totally unprotected, and
committed a further $250,000 towards further action, and ongoing funding and
support into the future.
Environment minister Greg Hunt, in an unimaginable move at a public meeting
in the Bay on Monday - removed all rights and protections from the Flying
Foxes under the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act
(1999). He has declared an "national interest exemption", and has declared
that there are now no barriers to prevent Council from taking any approach
at all (including FIRE!) to remove the Flying Foxes immediately.
See
https://goo.gl/eFf6H8
Judy
-----Original Message-----
From: Birding-Aus On Behalf Of
storm
Sent: Monday, 23 May 2016 11:48 AM
To: Roger Giller
Cc: Birding Aus
Subject: Migrating honeyeaters
There is a very large flowering of spotted gum around batemans bay. That is
why there are 100,000 bats down there at the moment.
The flowering is (apparently) predicated to go on for at least 6 weeks.
This might have some impact on the movement.
Storm
On 23 May 2016 at 09:31, Roger Giller <> wrote:
> I am at Barden Ridge, about 5 km SW of Paul, and have noted the same
> thing, in previous years as well as now. Manly south with some random
> excursions between various trees but of all the directions north would
> be the minority.
> Roger.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Birding-Aus On
> Behalf Of Paul Doyle
> Sent: Sunday, 22 May 2016 1:36 PM
> To:
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Migrating honeyeaters
>
> Hi all,
> For the last few weeks I have been watching flocks of honeyeaters,
> mainly Yellow-faced as far as I can tell, moving past my place at
> Como, in southern Sydney (34degree 59 S, 151 degrees, 04 E).
> Interested to see that every one of them so far, without exception,
> have been moving pretty much due South. I realise that there could be
> some irregularity in the directions travelled as they follow
> topography, etc., but it still seems strange.
> Any ideas anyone?
> Paul
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