I saw an Australian Owlet-nightjar sitting in the entrance to a
hollow in a Red Box growing in the Tuggeranong suburb of Kambah at
11.15am this morning. The hollow is about 10 metres above the ground
and east-facing. The tree is about as tall as I've ever seen for this
species of Eucalypt - I reckon it would probably be about 200 years old
and it has many hollows in it. In a straight line, it is about 150
metres, and one main road, from the Mt Taylor Nature Reserve, and 1 km
from the roosting bird that I reported on 12 March 2010 (see: http://bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au/archives/html/canberrabirds/2010-03/msg00069.html).
I spoke briefly with one of the residents of the property on which the
tree grows, who believes the Southern Boobook has bred in the tree
before and showed me a photograph of a fledgling that came down their
chimney some years ago. I have attached a photo that I took of the
bird seen in the hollow this morning.
Kind regards
Matthew Frawley
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