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Hi all
I've just joined the list - this is what
prompted me:
I have an upstairs home office with
floor-to-ceiling glass and a rangy hakea just outside (happy feeding for
gang gangs, crimson rosellas, king parrots, etc, and for a few years crested
pigeons nested, laying over that period around ten pairs of eggs - mostly I just
observed a currawong feeding factory in operation, but a few of the youngsters
seemed to get away).
To the point: a pair of spotted pardlotes spend
much time in the hakea. There are often pardalotes around (a couple of
eucalypts with lots of lerps within a few metres, etc). But this is
different. The male has spent many hours every day (both in the morning,
when he would be in the sun, and in the afternoon) for quite a few weeks
on the small branches just outside the windows, mostly appearing to be
inspecting my office through the glass. He looks to me to be doing what our poor
resident male magpie-lark spends so much time doing - battling
his rival in the glass. The pardalote does not fly into the glass
(intentionally), but does appear to bristle and spread and stretch wings
downward (there must be a term for this?), and sometimes swoops towards the
glass then back to his perch. Sometimes there is a third pardalote with the
pair (same colouring as female, little smaller - I have only seen it a couple of
times) - perhaps they have a nearby nest in a crack in the
building.
Any thoughts? Whatever is going on, it's
beautifully companionable for me while I work at my computer (I see him just
above or to the side of my monitor) - though a bit
distracting.
cheers
Barbara Preston
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