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This might be of no great interest, but our local
pair of magpie larks have taken to roosting just outside my office window (in a
James Stirling pittosporum interbranching with a hakea, at first floor level).
They have come about every third evening for about 2-3 weeks. They arrive very
close to 4.45 pm, calling and moving around the trees (and sometimes squabbling
with currawongs & magpies). Then they settle by about 5.00pm on the
same thinnish branch each time, with a bit of gentle pecking and shoving and
mutual preening, stretching and fluffing up etc - settling down for the night (I
think - they are hard to see in the dark, and I do not stay in my office all
evening, but I have noticed then there a couple of times close to
midnight).
It's now 5.15, and they are a sweet distraction in
my line of sight - perched facing opposite directions, bodies touching and beaks
resting on the other's back. ...
good night
Barbara
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