Thousands of fruit bats (Little Red Flying Foxes) came to visit Coco Creek in February 2008. They stayed for a month.
In the daytime they would hang upside down in the tall river oaks, squealing and squabbling amongst themselves. At dusk they would fly off silently into Wollemi National Park to feed on the nectar and pollen of flowering Bloodwood trees. Then before dawn they would fly back again to their roost at Coco Creek.
I tried to count them as they flew off one night, there were about ten thousand of them. After a month they all disappeared off somewhere else, don’t know where.
Flying foxes have a good sense of direction and they follow along water courses to find their way around.
Their favourite food is pollen and nectar from eucalpyt trees, although they sometimes do raid fruit orchards.
Do you know another name for a flying fox roost?
What was that I saw climbing up the tree?
ReplyDeleteSomething starting with G, looking for a flying fox for dinner! It was interesting that several Wedge-tailed Eagles were dive-bombing the flying foxes, hoping for an easy meal. I saw one wedgie fly off with a flying fox in its talons.
ReplyDeleteit was actually a goanna and the name for a flying fox roost is a camp.
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