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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