Fruit-bat farewell as Little Red not welcome in Miriam Vale

An attempt was made this morning to disperse the flying fox colony in Alf Larson/Lions Park in Miriam Vale.

Approval was given by the Department of Environment and Heritage yesterday to disperse one thousand little red flying foxes which have taken up residence in trees overhanging the playground equipment. Dispersals are not permitted when pregnant female bats or dependent young form part of the colony.

Little Red is highly nomadic, taking up camp wherever his favourite flowers and fruits are in season. He is the smallest of Australia’s mega-bats, but as Miriam Vale residents can attest, what they lack in size, they make up in numbers and inconvenience, noise, odour and of course bat-poo.