O'Connor: Brown Thornbill nest building

[Milburns <>]

This afternoon, only 3 days into a new GBS year, I witnessed a pair of 
Brown Thornbills building a nest.  Actually, only one of the birds was 
involved in construction while the other appeared to have a purely 
supervisory role.  My attention was drawn initially to the constructor 
that was industriously peeling ultra thin strips of bark from a Crepe 
Myrtle (/Lagerstroemia indica/), which could only mean one thing. 

I was interested in the fact that the species that was the source of 
nesting material was a very recent arrival in this locale but its 
potential had been recognised already by a species that was a long term 
inhabitant of the area.
Milburn

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