Although I took those photos at the Werribee Treatment Plant on Sunday, and hope you will enjoy my photos, I have noticed an increase of Great Egrets, White-faced Herons and all kinds of native Ducks. I took a train into Melbourne the other day, and passed by many new housing estates in the outer east. Almost all of them now include some manmade lakes in their landscape. I was astonished by the amount of waterbirds readily taking to them. I saw many Herons and a few Egrets, that must mean there are fish and frogs in those lakes.(?) I wonder if there is a trend here to create habitat and provide people with nice areas. I hope they will appreciate the wildlife on and around those lakes, and look after them.
What are other Cities doing?
Have you noticed the same trend?
Sorry, I have no idea why the text posted between the photos? The photos are in the wrong sequence too
M-L
great pictures there , there are a few new water reserves around Hervey Bay now in the new areas the birds seem to love it.
kerry
There are a few artificial wetlands around Adelaide. It's great that developers & governments are seeing the need to include these in housing estates but a crying shame that many natural wetlands have been destroyed to make way for development. Perhaps wetlands are no longer being called dirty swamps. The language we use so often determines our attitudes towards something.
Hi Woko) , most of the new estates around here have been built on ex farmland. There never were any wetlands. Apart from losing good land to grow potatoes on, you should consider this an improvement . If they are going to be looked after, it will greatly benefit birds.
M-L
Wetlands on ex farmland is a fair exchange, Araminta. No problem with that. I do have a problem with destroying natural wetlands for marinas, airports etc. I suspect there's more respect for wetlands now that we call them wetlands rather than swamps.
At the moment wetlands in new estates are the flavour of the year. They have become the drawcard of advertising , that can only be good? Huge billboards where ever a new development comes up, the wetlands are the attraction. (and bicycle tracks)
M-L