Gang-gang: Nature's shy bouncings back from 2003's infernos

By Ian Warden
Updated October 5 2015 - 10:23am, first published September 29 2015 - 11:45pm
Dillwynia sericea, otherwise known as the very showy show parrot-pea. Photo: Tim Dolby
Dillwynia sericea, otherwise known as the very showy show parrot-pea. Photo: Tim Dolby
Twenty five shades of grey: a lyrebird at Tidbinbilla.  Photo: John Bundock
Twenty five shades of grey: a lyrebird at Tidbinbilla. Photo: John Bundock
Twenty five shades of grey: a lyrebird at Tidbinbilla.  Photo: John Bundock
Twenty five shades of grey: a lyrebird at Tidbinbilla. Photo: John Bundock
Dillwynia sericea, otherwise known as the very showy show parrot-pea. Photo: Tim Dolby
Dillwynia sericea, otherwise known as the very showy show parrot-pea. Photo: Tim Dolby
Twenty five shades of grey: a lyrebird at Tidbinbilla.  Photo: John Bundock
Twenty five shades of grey: a lyrebird at Tidbinbilla. Photo: John Bundock
Dillwynia sericea, otherwise known as the very showy show parrot-pea. Photo: Tim Dolby
Dillwynia sericea, otherwise known as the very showy show parrot-pea. Photo: Tim Dolby
Twenty five shades of grey: a lyrebird at Tidbinbilla.  Photo: John Bundock
Twenty five shades of grey: a lyrebird at Tidbinbilla. Photo: John Bundock

Of course the news media, a ravenous, impatient beast with a short attention span, was quick to notice and rejoice over the very first signs of ACT bushland Nature bouncing back after the fires of January 2003. Pictures of new leaves bursting forth on blackened branches (branches of trees we'd feared burned to death) did all our hearts a world of good.

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