LEAF CANOPY

Recently landed: Leaf canopy

Late March not only saw the successful soft release of our four ringtails, raised from orphaned joeys to robust juveniles, but the successful soft release of many of the Grey-headed flying pups we have had in care this season, with the last handful, the Woolfs, Virginia and Leonard, together with Cricket, to follow in mid-April. After obtaining their ‘wings’ at Bat Rescue Bayside’s crèche, where they were able to refine the art of socialisation and obtain flying skills supreme in the flight aviary, all these weeks of care later, many of the pups we helped raise have since graduated from the Soft Release Enclosure (SRE) by the Birrarung. From tiny to world-ready, and potentially flying overhead now as I type, in a wing-beat, here’s hoping the transition from crèche to soft release was and is a gentle one.

Continuing reading on Marginalia.

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13th of April, 2024

In between the pups, we’ve been working on three new artists’ books we will be launching at the tenth NGV Melbourne Art Book Fair, come the last weekend of May.