On 06/09/10 23:09, Philip Veerman wrote:
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Recently
someone sent in a photo of a lyrebird's nest very exposed on a rock
ledge. Last night I was looking through the Canberra Times (that I
obtain sometimes on Saturday but it takes a month or two to get through
them). The Panorama insert of 31 July 2010 page 47 has a long
description (and one little photo) describing the long history (going
back to 1980) of observations of one Superb Lyrebird (or it may be
more) that likes to live deep in "the big hole" near Captains Flat.
It was I who recently sent in the photo of the exposed lyrebird's nest
- I stopped and had another look at it when I was cycling up Mt
Macdonald last week, and the nest has fallen into some disrepair, so I
don't think it's in use.
Back in the late 1980s, on a mountain bike ride past the big hole, I
can remember watching a lyrebird start from somewhere near the bottom
of the hole and run in an ascending spiral around the walls, eventually
emerging at the top about fifteen metres away from us. It didn't really
take any notice of us at all, just walked off slowly into the bush.
Nick
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