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Hi
Charlie,
My guess is
it looks pretty normal for a Little Eagle's nest. That is not an identification,
just a suggestion. Or another similar raptor such as Whistling Kite but there
aren't many other options. It looks too big to be a Australian Raven's or Brown
Goshawk's nest, inasmuch as I can guess from the photo and from what you wrote.
Not a lyrebird's nest.
Is it near
water? Another suggestion is White-faced Heron.
Philip
Yesterday I found this nest on my property in this large Brittle
gum its four meters off the ground made of sticks all as thicker then pencils
and as long as my forearm. The top of the nest had old gum leaves and bits of
roots from surrounding tussocks, it was around half a meter across but the
actual cup was the size of a large dinner plate. Surrounding the nest on the
ground where lots of lyre bird scratches which i assumed at first had made it
but it seems to high up and is not a dome nest like lyre birds make but a bowl
nest like a raptor but to small for a wedge tail.
If any body has any ideas I would love to know from what i can see it is no
longer active, If anybody has seen a lyre bird nest as well are they ever bowl
nests like this one ?
Photos attached
Cheers
Charlie | 