Snipe migration has started!
February 21, 2017
After a challenging start we are thrilled to learn that P9 Tsubasa has begun its journey. Tsubasa left Canberra on 14th February (clearly no valentines worth hanging around for in Canberra!), probably sometime during the early hours of the morning prior to dawn. The next satellite fixes late afternoon on Feb 15 showed that Tsubasa had stopped somewhere in central NSW west of Yeoval and east of Goobang National Park. There’s not much in that region except scattered farm dams and small, degraded watercourses, so Tsubasa was on its way again and was picked up by the satellites in Gwydir wetlands (northern NSW) on the February 17.
Meanwhile, Nozomi (R0) is still hanging around Jerrabomberra wetlands but her satellite fixes are becomingly increasingly unreliable so we hope that means she is readying herself for departure. Unfortunately some issues with P8 meant that we had to recapture her and remove her harness, so now we are relying on Nozomi and Tsubasa to fly the flag for Canberra snipe. Let’s wish them good luck!
See the latest new bulletin in The Chronicle (Queanbeyan Age) “Bush Capital with Brett McNamara” or view a copy.