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They are still fairly regular in the Dandenong Creek and Yarra River valleys, and from there odd ones go 'suburban'!
My guess is that your bayside echidnas will have somehow reached the beach from Braeside, and then ambled north to your neighbourhood. Not implausible I think.
The probability that they have fled the distant bushfire zone(s) and (1) not stopped somewhere suitable along the way, or (2) managed somehow to make it through 10s of kilometres of suburbia, is approximately 0.00%, IMHO.
regards
Lawrie
2009/6/22 michael norris <menorris@...>
In May there were 7 reliable, or very plausible, reports of Echidnas in the
City of Bayside (Beaumaris to Brighton on the east of Port Phillip Bay).
Despite my extensive networks (including staff of our golf courses which
include the Royal Melbourne) I know of no other records in the City for
about 20 years.
The nearest population is at Braeside Park, about 10km south but there is no
really connected land nearer than 20km away (in the Dandenong Valley and
Churchill National Park).
Couple of questions:
- is anyone aware of other recent records in suburban Melbourne?
- is it likely that they are unaided fire refugees (nearest extensive fire
was Bunyip, 60km away)?
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