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Hi Ray,
No need to be bashful about mentioning this. I
can't recall ever having seen that happen. However HANZAB mentions: ( Vol 1B,
page 743) "picking up stick, feather.... throwing it up into air and catching
it, several times, if dropped, object picked up again." I would suggest that
what you describe is related behaviour. As to what it means........ Who knows?
This is likely to be as you say a mating ritual or play or for some
odd reason treating sticks as though they are fish. I'd suggest it is unlikely
to do with nest building. Two reasons: they don't breed near here and they don't
usually use sticks or indeed much else in nests. Mostly nests are a scrape in
the dirt, sometimes with some small amount of vegetation lining.
Philip
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