A message from your Club President Chris Murphy
Hi Members,
SEPTEMBER MID MONTH ZOOM MEETING.
Our September mid month Zoom Meeting will be on Tuesday 15th September at 7.30pm.
This meeting will feature a visit to the highly successful partnership of Alan and Chris Druery, who have won an incredible 16 ANBC classes, and achieved a place in the ANBC Hall of Fame. Your Zoom meeting link has already been emailed out by Jonathan.
ZOOM MEETING LINKS.
We have had some concerns from members and other fanciers that they were unable to connect to the recent zoom meeting on September 1st. Each zoom meeting will have a unique entry code and this is sent out to all members the week prior to the meeting. Any non member who participates in the lucky squares bird raffle will also receive the link to that meeting. Then invites are sent out to any interested fancier who contacts Ian Wise or Jonathan Trubshaw and asks for the link.
If you are using an old link or emailing the link to others, it may not work, so use the specific link emailed out for the relevant meeting, and if you know of other fanciers who are interested in joining our meetings, let them know they need to contact Ian or Jonathan.
LUCKY SQUARES BIRD OF PROMISE – Alan & Chris Druery.
As mentioned in an emailed to Members yesterday, Alan & Chris have already sold all spare birds and being a relatively small stud, do not have a quality bird available for our Lucky Squares this month. They have offered for the BSSA to run the Lucky Squares as normal and they will supply the winner with a quality bird at the conclusion of their current breeding season. I think this will be an interesting opportunity and will be keen to see how this arrangement works out in “real time”. The winner may well end up with a fantastic quality bird that would otherwise have not been available.
OCTOBER CLUB MEETING – TUESDAY 6th OCTOBER @ 7.30PM.
This meeting is scheduled to be our first face to face meeting since COVID commenced in March. This is conditional on no further changes to social gatherings over the next few weeks. Please stay tuned to these notices as we will update as we get closer to the date. This meeting will be held at our Sturt Street Meeting Hall.
BSSA AUCTIONS –
Hopefully you have all had the opportunity to participate and follow in our Club Auctions which are available in a link called “birds available” on the BSSA website. http://www.bssainc.org.au/birds-available.html
We believe there is a lot of possibility with this on-line auction concept, and are working on some different options to “test the waters”. Last week we offered 30 lots for sale and this went extremely well, with almost all lots being sold. We are also seeing some pairs being offered for sale, and would encourage all members to “think outside the box a little” when it comes to how we present the birds in the auctions. I have already had the suggestion from a member to have a specific variety auction i.e an auction just for clearwings, or crested as an example. I believe if we put our thinking caps on, there are lots of possibilities to enhance the auction and make it even more appealing to our members and the general fancy. I would love to hear your comments and suggestions either on the phone or via email.
ANBC & IMPORTATION SITUATION.
Recently their has been some commentary on social media around the potential importation of budgerigars into Australia. Nigel Tonkin has emailed the below flowchart, which outlines the process currently being worked through by our Government. We are currently at stage 4 “consult with the public”, which closes on 19 September. The ANBC was planning to submit commentary on the draft report, however that is awaiting a vote from the states agreeing to spend between $4,500 and $6000 on this commentary. SA has voted not to endorse the spending of this amount given what appears to be a very tight timeframe to commission the report and then present it by the closing date.
If any of our members would like to read the draft report, it is attached to this email.
Psittacine birds (household pets and aviary)
We have completed the draft report for the Import risk review for psittacine birds from all countries.
Steps to complete this risk analysis
When we do a risk analysis, we:
Have a great weekend & looking forward to seeing you all on Tuesday evening,
Chris Murphy
0409-799-627
10th September 2020.
SEPTEMBER MID MONTH ZOOM MEETING.
Our September mid month Zoom Meeting will be on Tuesday 15th September at 7.30pm.
This meeting will feature a visit to the highly successful partnership of Alan and Chris Druery, who have won an incredible 16 ANBC classes, and achieved a place in the ANBC Hall of Fame. Your Zoom meeting link has already been emailed out by Jonathan.
ZOOM MEETING LINKS.
We have had some concerns from members and other fanciers that they were unable to connect to the recent zoom meeting on September 1st. Each zoom meeting will have a unique entry code and this is sent out to all members the week prior to the meeting. Any non member who participates in the lucky squares bird raffle will also receive the link to that meeting. Then invites are sent out to any interested fancier who contacts Ian Wise or Jonathan Trubshaw and asks for the link.
If you are using an old link or emailing the link to others, it may not work, so use the specific link emailed out for the relevant meeting, and if you know of other fanciers who are interested in joining our meetings, let them know they need to contact Ian or Jonathan.
LUCKY SQUARES BIRD OF PROMISE – Alan & Chris Druery.
As mentioned in an emailed to Members yesterday, Alan & Chris have already sold all spare birds and being a relatively small stud, do not have a quality bird available for our Lucky Squares this month. They have offered for the BSSA to run the Lucky Squares as normal and they will supply the winner with a quality bird at the conclusion of their current breeding season. I think this will be an interesting opportunity and will be keen to see how this arrangement works out in “real time”. The winner may well end up with a fantastic quality bird that would otherwise have not been available.
OCTOBER CLUB MEETING – TUESDAY 6th OCTOBER @ 7.30PM.
This meeting is scheduled to be our first face to face meeting since COVID commenced in March. This is conditional on no further changes to social gatherings over the next few weeks. Please stay tuned to these notices as we will update as we get closer to the date. This meeting will be held at our Sturt Street Meeting Hall.
BSSA AUCTIONS –
Hopefully you have all had the opportunity to participate and follow in our Club Auctions which are available in a link called “birds available” on the BSSA website. http://www.bssainc.org.au/birds-available.html
We believe there is a lot of possibility with this on-line auction concept, and are working on some different options to “test the waters”. Last week we offered 30 lots for sale and this went extremely well, with almost all lots being sold. We are also seeing some pairs being offered for sale, and would encourage all members to “think outside the box a little” when it comes to how we present the birds in the auctions. I have already had the suggestion from a member to have a specific variety auction i.e an auction just for clearwings, or crested as an example. I believe if we put our thinking caps on, there are lots of possibilities to enhance the auction and make it even more appealing to our members and the general fancy. I would love to hear your comments and suggestions either on the phone or via email.
ANBC & IMPORTATION SITUATION.
Recently their has been some commentary on social media around the potential importation of budgerigars into Australia. Nigel Tonkin has emailed the below flowchart, which outlines the process currently being worked through by our Government. We are currently at stage 4 “consult with the public”, which closes on 19 September. The ANBC was planning to submit commentary on the draft report, however that is awaiting a vote from the states agreeing to spend between $4,500 and $6000 on this commentary. SA has voted not to endorse the spending of this amount given what appears to be a very tight timeframe to commission the report and then present it by the closing date.
If any of our members would like to read the draft report, it is attached to this email.
Psittacine birds (household pets and aviary)
We have completed the draft report for the Import risk review for psittacine birds from all countries.
Steps to complete this risk analysis
When we do a risk analysis, we:
- start the risk analysis by reviewing the science on pests and diseases of concern
- assess and analyse biosecurity risks
- develop proposed risk management measures
- consult the public on the draft report and then review comments
- publish a final report
- develop import conditions
- publish import conditions in our Biosecurity Import Conditions System (BICON)
Have a great weekend & looking forward to seeing you all on Tuesday evening,
Chris Murphy
0409-799-627
10th September 2020.
