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Found a pair of red wattlebirds feeding at least
one chick in a nest within my GBS site on Friday. The chick could clearly
be heard begging both before and during being fed, though could not yet be
seen. This suggests it's probably about a week behind the chick raised in
the nest outside our study window last year, which left the nest on 26 July,
though in my experience red wattlebirds really rush through the breeding cycle
for the size of bird.
Also a masked lapwing appears to be nesting again
on the same front lawn 500 m from our house as it did last October. Still
to confirm this but the pattern so far is very familiar (you need to drive past
in the car to pin point the nest as the bird always sneaks off well before you
come into view while on foot).
Jack Holland
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