13. Existing DMP (2006)

without topographic feature diversity (Nybakken 1997). At this site this denuded area
extends for another 100 meters. Interruptions in topographic structure has created an
exposed sand bank at lower tides (<0.50m) which is used as a roosting sites for birds
East of site two (see Figure 1).


The closest predatory inhabitance is represented by nesting site in the river that is
more than 600mts away to the east (represented on the Island in Figure 1). Avian
experts documented on the 5th Nov. 06 that two nests where evident, one of which
was a Pied Oystercatcher (Haematopus fuliginosus)(Simpson & Day 1999).




Figure 1. Site One and Two, with distances shown to all environmentally
significant aspects.




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