Thanks Geoffrey, for the early publicity for COG’s annual boat trip up
Molonglo Reach which will take place on Sunday 17 February.
The darter breeding season is indeed a long one, my experience over the now
10 years I’ve been leading these trips is that it starts in September/October
but that the main breeding time is in the New Year. Often we’ve seen very
good breeding still in March/April and indeed a couple of times at the end of
May we’ve still seen many nests with chicks about to fledge.
I’m hoping that the recent rain will have started a new round of breeding,
which will mean a range of breeding activity from nest building, birds on nests
and nests with young.
Details will be in February Gang-gang due out this week, still quite a few
places left at this time.
Jack Holland
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Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2013 10:47 AM
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Subject: [canberrabirds] A long season
The current length of the darter breeding season was brought
to attention this morning on the Molonglo in front of Duntroon, where one nest
had young within a few days of leaving, and a nearby female at the top of a
willow was breaking off a branchlet to build its own lateish
nest.
