A bird in the hand

By Alex Nelson

During the most part of the 2000s I worked in the Pink Olive Pink Botanical Garden, and two decades ago I got an idea of ​​how jealous they can be the acute observers of birds and twitchers when the news of sightings of a small bird is extended, the gray Honeyater (Above, photo of Mike Gillam)In the Botanical Garden.

This was promoted by observations in mid -2005 reported by the renowned tourist identity, Barry Bucholtz, who often frequented the botanical olive garden during his terminal illness.

He sent his observations to his observations to his friends who observed birds, which led many people, many travel from the interstatal, to visit OPBG, seeking to take a look at the elusive gray honey. The effect remained for approximately two years.

After Barry’s death in 2006, the Olive Pink Botanical Garden established a commemorative garden (to the right) To recognize their role in tourism and interest in the observation of birds that had demonstrated an unexpected benefit for the Botanical Garden. In November 2007, his wife, Julie Bucholtz, and Libby Prell, president of the OPBG Trustees Board, officially opened the Barry Bucholtz bird attraction.

I sent an email to my thoughts and observations on this issue to Tourism Central Australia and the Office of the Minister of Tourism. When reading that law, the independent senator David Pocock has an “encyclopedic knowledge” of the birds, I also sent the same email.

Do I suppose the office responded? Suggestion: No of the northern territory.

As a general observation, it is a great pity that Glen Helen Resort to the west of Alice Springs is closed and Ross River Resort to the East has limited access, since both would be ideal bases for bird -to -see visitors to Central Australia.

I imagine that other place, the Hamilton Downs youth camp could also attend to this market. On the one hand, the road to the youth camp passes through Mulga Country, which they told me a long time ago it is a favorite area for Twitchers looking for gray honeys.

Only some thoughts!

PHOTO below Alex Nelson: Emus in Olive Pink.