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Hobby nest prospecting at my house?

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Subject: Hobby nest prospecting at my house?
From: "Philip Veerman" <>
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 17:39:56 +1100

At midday today I heard a loud chittering from my backyard and went out to see an Aust. Hobby flying around my big Euc tree and perching adjacent to the Pied nest. I have not seen the Currawongs there for two days so I don't know if they have finished or chicks have died, been predated or abandoned. The Hobby flew around then onto the neighbour's tree then flew away, still calling. I did not see a partner. I think on size it is a male. In all the years of having them fly over, I'm pretty sure this is the first time I have had one actually perching in my yard.

For years my brother had them nesting in the yard of a huge ex monastery building across the road from him in Surrey Hills in Melbourne.

Philip

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