Spoonbills at Kelly's

["martin butterfield" <>]

Thanks to all for the responses.  I will put in an incidental "nest building" record.  Looking at the last ABR, Steve Wilson's book, and the 2nd Atlas it seems that breeding for the species is not usual for the area.  

Anthony: is this worth an Odd Ob summarising the comments for the benefit of those not on this chatline.

Martin

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Alastair Smith <> wrote:

Martin et al,

Geoff Duggan and I saw a spoonbill carrying a branch to the tree in the middle of the pond on Sunday afternoon.

Cheers

Alastair

 

From: martin butterfield [
Sent: Tuesday, 28 October 2008 6:27 PM
To: COG List
Subject: [canberrabirds] Spoonbills at Kelly's

 

This afternoon two Royal Spoonbills were perched in the tree on the small island in front of Cygnus hide.  They appeared to be quite friendly - for a while I thought a CO record was in the offing.  However the bird on the right in the attached image appeared to be on a defoliation mission WRT the tree, stacking its booty around its feet.  I got the distinct impression it was building a nest but couldn't get a good enough view to confirm this.  Other observers might like to keep an eye on this.

Martin