With
all this talk about leaden flycatchers, I couldn’t stay away from Campbell Park
any longer. Today, I was lucky
enough to observe a pair of LFC starting work on a nest, so settled in to watch
for a couple of hours.
Interestingly, the nest is being built in a completely dead small tree,
only 2 - 3 metres above the ground.
No overhanging leaves... I wonder if they will stay there after the first
heatwave. I saw the occasional
noisy friarbird, but no sign of nesting activity in the immediate vicinity. The nearest mistletoe clump was occupied
by a bronzewing pigeon. At one
stage a couple of dusky woodswallows moved into a sapling near the LFC nest, and
there was a great to-do. But then,
on closer observation, I found the real cause of the LFC’s agitation. Do kookaburras eat leaden flycatchers or
their eggs? And if they do, should
we have an “I hate kookaburras” campaign?
This fellow had earlier caught an enormous centipede. I guess the centipedes already hate
kookaburras.
Margaret
Leggoe
