Staff stories (& selfies) from the frontline
HAVING TO remove a dangerous tree, we found these chirpy fellows in it. We called a wildlife rescue service, who finding on arrival that they couldn’t transplant the nest, worked on a solution while our trees team was on site. The outcome was that the resident whose house was struck (by the tree), allowed us to hang a provisional nest in his Eucalyptus, while the lady from wildlife rescue estimated the crows to be about 3-4 weeks away from leaving the nest. We later returned to the site to find the parents attending the new nest. Altogether a great outcome! - Kieron Spring Bayside Trees Arborist THIS IS Nick Zafiris (right), one of our City of Melbourne Tree Planting Team members, taking an opportunistic “selfie” with Melbourne Lord Mayor Sally Capp. The Lord Mayor was doing a lap of the ‘Tan Track’ a little while back and happened to drop into to our Tree planting team and thank them for doing a great job planting new trees along Anderson St hill, South Yarra. “Sally stopped for a short chat and thanked them all for their efforts and told them what a wonderful job they were doing, then proceeded to post her own Facebook video update from the site spruiking about how great it was to see new trees being planted along the Tan Track. So our Nick saw a window of opportunity and asked her for a selfie with him! (C/o Rod Fraser, Senior Arborist, Melbourne Trees)
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