Blue Gum Swamp Winmalee RFI
By Birding-Aus, on September 19th, 2013
Hello, I’m an American birder who is going to be in Sydney next week, and I would love to go birding at Blue Gum Swamp in Winmalee. I’ll be staying in central Sydney and I won’t have a car, but I would be happy to take a train out to some suburban station (like Penrith maybe?) to meet someone who could then take me birding at Winmalee and maybe even some other Blue Mountains sites. I could be available on Thursday the 26th, Friday the 27th, or Saturday the 28th. Is anyone interested in spending some time showing an American birder some Aussie birds? Of course, I would be pleased to pay for petrol and lunch. Barry Brugman USA http://barry15.com/2013_Australia_Trip/ =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au http://birding-aus.org ===============================
Werner and I visited the start of the Blue Gum Swamp track briefly this morning just to check it out for a planned walk later in the week. There are no barriers to walking down to the swamp. The area to the north of the car park is severely burned but we were told by a cyclist, who was just returning from a circuit ride that the damage only extends about half a kilometre out on the Shaw’s ridge track. Julie Neumann =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) http://birding-aus.org ===============================
Barry, Andrew and all, Yes, the recent fire did indeed affect the Blue Gum Swamp area and the track is currently closed. From the OEH website http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/NationalParks/FireClosure.aspx : “The Shaws Ridge Precinct of Blue Mountains National Park remains closed until further notice. This includes the Blue Gum Swamp, Shaws Ridge and Springwood Ridge Fire Trails.” There are plenty of other great places to go in the Blue Mountains. Many of the lower mountains creekside walks give you nice wet-forest habitat and good bird diversity at this time of year. For example I’d suggest somewhere like Birdwood Gully at Springwood, or Murphys Glen south of Woodford. Cheers, Carol At 1:52 PM +1000 19/9/13, Andrew Taylor wrote: — ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Carol Probets PO Box 330 Katoomba NSW 2780 Blue Mountains, Australia Phone +61-2-4782 1831 Mobile phone 0400 821 862 Email: origma@westnet.com.au Web: http://www.bmbirding.com.au Twitter: https://twitter.com/carolprobets Guided birding in the Blue Mountains and Capertee Valley ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) http://birding-aus.org ===============================
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 12:57:18PM -0400, Birder1944@aol.com wrote: There was a bushfire last week not far from Blue Gum Swamp. Maybe a Blue Mountains birder can tell us (probably a few people on the list interested) how Blue Gum Swamp was affected by the fire and the backburning to control it. Andrew =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) http://birding-aus.org ===============================