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Subject: Goshawks
From: "Geoffrey Dabb" <>
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 21:08:46 +1100
Enough graphics trivia, time to pull my weight with a local observation or two.

In the Newline paddock, Brown Goshawks are using the same nest as last year. This pair belongs to the Skulking Sect, just one concerned parent, unusually two, appearing from time to time. Meanwhile, across the river and over the rail line but still in the ACT, Bob Rusk's old pair near the disused abattoirs is also using the same nest as last year. This pair belongs to the Militant Sect with the female chattering away at any intrusion, and the feisty male always near at hand. Both those nests are on track to produce fledged young around about Christmas.

Today in the course of a formal woodland survey I again disturbed the Mugga Lane female (a confirmed Skulker). Its nest appears to be the one high up in a mistletoe clump where it is difficult to see what is going on. A well-chosen nest-site: we busy woodland surveyors don't have time to moon around craning our necks to examine high dense mistletoe clumps. .


               Geoffrey Dabb
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