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[email protected] Distributed by e mail only Issue No. 78 August 2012 BIRDWATCH NEWS not proven to keep vandals out. Every season what my problem was, and asked if we could brings its own type of recreational users to park possibly 10 to 15 cars in their car-park; August still leaves Galway members of the woods and, depending on the weather, all ‘Certainly, you’re more than welcome’, I was BirdWatchreland without a committee or a sorts of debris can be found among the told. Are things working out, I asked myself? branch structure. I continue our appeal for vegetation and at the observation areas, – PHEW! I made up a notice to put on the members to come forward and fill this gap – ranging from tents to clothing, bottles, cans, ‘Dangan’ gate asking people to park at the surely there must be some willing to have a crisp packs, barbeque remnants, cigarette Westwood. go! packs, disposable nappies and other sanitary I arrived in Dangan at 04:15 on the 20 th of In the meantime we carry on as best we cast offs. May; one person was there before me – it can. An example is Brendan Dunne’s Over the years, good numbers of was her first Dawn Chorus outing. I tied my splendid effort in his solo organising of the members have taken an interest in The Small notice to the locked gate, looking around I recent Galway Dawn Chorus (see below).