A pair of crested pigeons is establishing a nest in the hakea just outside
my office window, in full view over the top of my monitor ....
They first came on Saturday, with much courting behaviour. On Sunday they
both left for half the day after three crimson rosellas came for a while,
but were back by evening. Yesterday and today nest-building continues with
the male off collecting twigs, sometimes breaking them off from the hakea
within a couple of metres of the nest. The local pair of currawongs were
hanging around, observing, for a while earlier - but maybe the food produced
will be too late in the season for them.
Unfortunately the nest is just above the height of the top of the window, so
I will not be able to see eggs (unless the nest is really sparse).
Anything I should particularly look out for?
cheers
Barbara
* PS some years ago CPs had many successive nests in this hakea over around
18 months (if I remember rightly). Stalking currawongs were frequent, and I
observed quite a few eggs, hatchlings and fledgelings go to the currawongs -
carcasses with necks wedged in small branch forks to make easy the stripping
of flesh, headless young CP bodies near the currawong nest ...
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