Ms Woko & I were at Pt Elliot on the weekend & we travelled past a housing development which, unlike most housing developments, features a goodly area of revegetated land & a partly-restored wetland. From the vegetation around the wetland darted what I've very confident was a spotless crake. It nearly charged onto the road but, fortunately, seemed to think that discretion was the better part of valour & rushed back into the rushes.
It shows that developers don't always have to be crass in their treatment of the environment.
Yes Woko it is important that developers are made to develop in an eco friendly way . Every time I see a tree free wasteland I cringe where there are new developments. I was in my parents garden a few weeks ago, which is a retirement village built on what used to be marshy wetland on a flood plain. It is still only half developed and has a good deal of bushland nearby so the Masked Lapwings are still bringing up their babies there, and the rainbow bee eaters are nesting in the dirt banks along with the Pardalotes. I think once the houses are finished there will be room for them all but they will have to adapt to the gardens and backyards. Fortunately the developer plants out with heaps of cover .... I was lucky enough to see a couple of Banded Rails darting around in my parents garden .....quite jealous really as I go looking for them in creeks and never see anything but a tail up in the air as they run away ha ha
Sunshine Coast Queensland
Right on, birdie. As part of our visit to Pt Elliot & the south coast generally we were visiting the McCracken Country Club. Lo & behold there in the club ornamental pool which had some native vegetation around it were about 8 wood ducks & near the vegetation were a pair of black-tailed native hens.
Landscaping doesn't have to be done with exotic plants. It can provide habitat for our wildlife if only landscapers cared enough.