And on the other side of the town common, a female Red-Rump is using a metal
hollow inside the high overhang of one of Crows Nest's newest buildings. Seems
to be a species culture here.
JLA
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> Date: 30 September 2016 at 2:57:33 PM AEST
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> Both birds sweep in again, & onto the top of the 2nd pediment. The male feeds
> the female copiously, then both fly off again. Perhaps the nest is not
> complete yet? Though certainly the female spent plenty of time in/at it,
> earlier...
>
> JLA
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>> From: Judith L-A <>
>> Date: 30 September 2016 at 2:34:41 PM AEST
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>> Subject: unusual / adaptive nest
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>> Red-rumpled Parrot --
>>
>> In the centre of Crows Nest town (Qld), a pair of Red-rumps nesting inside
>> the fascia-pediment of an old brick shop. A couple of metres away, in the
>> opposite crevice-corner, sparrows are nest-building.
>>
>> No date on the building, but architectural signs of age outside & in, &
>> signs of repair/exclusion attempts in the paired crevice-corners of both
>> pediments.
>>
>> The brown female goes in, while the bright male flits about on the cornice
>> above, twittering, till finally he takes to the powerline, calls her out, &
>> they dash away together.
>>
>> JLA
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