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Fwd: unusual / adaptive nest

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Subject: Fwd: unusual / adaptive nest
From: Judith L-A <>
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2016 07:41:20 +0000
Still another female is using hole/s excavated / enlarged in the replaced eave 
of an old 2-storey building. Throughout the town, males call & call, getting 
ever closer to the entrance, till they can feed their female there or outside.

JLA
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> Date: 2 October 2016 at 5:16:34 PM AEST
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> 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.
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> JLA
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>> From: Judith L-A <>
>> 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...
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>> 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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