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Logrunner.

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Subject: Logrunner.
From: Alan Gillanders <>
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 12:05:55 +0000
Martin, the only times I've seen Chowchillas up a tree is when they were
shouting at the neighbours.
Barney, that is a most interesting sighting.
Alan

On 2/01/2018 9:32 PM, martin cachard wrote:
> wow Barney, that's pretty amazing!
>
> I've never seen or heard of anything like that...
>
>
> is there a shortage af food perhaps around that scenic rim area??
>
>
> I had better keep an eye open on the Chowchillas up here then!!
>
>
> cheers,
>
>
> martin cachard,
>
> solar whisper wildlife cruises, daintree river.
>
>
> & trinity beach, cairns.
>
>
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> Last Thursday after a halfhearted effort of trying to photograph Logrunners
> on a cloudy day with misty rain under the canopy at " O'Reilly's", Lamington
> National Park  and after some grainy efforts I was showing a Sydney couple
> where the squeaking noise was coming from that they had heard.
>
> The noise was coming from a nest of Yellow-throated Scrubwrens whose young
> had an insatiable desire for food and were telling the world of their need.
>
> I had taken some shots of the parents feeding them from the board walk
> earlier in the day and was heading back to the car after watching a pair of
> Bassian Thrush collecting moss off a large boulder and carting it to their
> nest they were building in a Birds Nest Fern when I was asked what the noise
> was.
>
>
>
> While talking to them two birds arrived high up in the trees and dropped
> down to perch a few feet away at the nest level, I was surprised to see they
> were two colored female Logrunner's having only seen them before at ground
> level.
>
> Took several photos and they just hopped around from branch to branch when
> suddenly one flew to the nest and hung at the entrance, three open mouths
> appeared and it grabbed one, pulled it out by the bottom of it open beak and
> was gone with the other frantically following.
>
> The Scrubwrens re-appeared and continued feeding the remaining two, but I
> felt the raiders would soon return.
>
>
>
> Is this a normal procedure ???
>
> The guides at the park said they had never heard of it before, Catbird,
> Drongo, Currawong, Butcherbird etc yes, but Logrunner never.
>
>
>
> Barney
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