re: Frogmouth using a Chough nest

["Clifton" <>]

Hi all,

         Choughs build a new nest each year.  Old nests usually fall out of trees during wintery (wet, windy) weather.  After all they are made of clay soil.  On a similar note, a Pee Wee built a nest in a pine tree at the very end of the point on Acton Peninsula.  The group of trees are not Radiata but similar.  I thought this strange as I can't recall seeing a Pee Wee nest in an exotic tree.   On a wild Thursday a few weeks ago the nest and newly hatched babies came to grief.  I found the nest on the ground still intact.  It had apparently slipped from the branch.  Natural selection in action?????

 

Graeme