The Hobby pair in Ainslie is still jousting heavily with
Currawongs. During the last few days I?ve only seen the Hobby pair
around, or occasionally on, the nest (usually perched sentinel-like
on nearby branches) with no disputing currawongs (though miscellaneous
wattle birds, noisy miners, gang gangs etc have had brief walk-on parts),
but yesterday morning (21 Oct) one Hobby was on and off the nest
with at least 6 currawongs in vigorous attendance (photo shows Hobby
fending off two), and the other engaged the currawongs in some fine
aerial combat (including, following John Layton, stuka-like dives).
I assume firm tenure of the nest has not yet been achieved.
Robin Hide
At 05:03 PM 8/10/2007, you wrote:
Yes
well it would be worthwhile to keep a check on this, if it is convenient
to you. I think it was 2 years ago that the Hobby pair that nested in the
big tree in the middle of Drakeford Drive in Kambah spent some time,
maybe a week or two, bothering a pair of Ravens at their nest near
Colquhoun St Kambah, before settling on the other site to use an old
deserted nest about 300 to 500 metres (my guess) distant. At least I
think it was the same pair.
Philip
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