Stephen Marchant in ‘The Emu’ as I recall, Philip, back when that journal carried such incidental obs. The question often raised in connection with this is:
which species chooses the nest site first? At Callum Brae at the moment an LF pair has chosen the Brown Goshawk as its co-nester. I have seen this before, too
From: Philip Veerman [
Sent: Tuesday, 27 October 2015 2:01 PM
To: 'Canberra Birds'
Subject: [canberrabirds] Two more thoughts on blitz day or comment on Leaden Flycatcher & Noisy Friarbird nesting
On Sunday I wrote the below: On going out to the same site this morning to show two others who had requested an opportunity to photograph the
Leaden Flycatcher’s nest (on a dead branch of a eucalypt), and actually more like 15 metres from the car park.
I find there is indeed a fully formed Noisy Friarbird’s
nest high in a Casuarina and being attended by the adults, this is within about 15 metres of the
Leaden Flycatcher’s nest. Am I right that it was Michael Lenz who first described this interesting frequent co-nesting of these 2 species? Also the behaviour of the
Leaden Flycatcher pair of today was more suggestive of brooding, whereas on Sunday they were still building an almost complete nest.
We also noted that both the trees housing these nests have blue arrows painted on them. I am wondering if that indicates an intent to prune these trees (only a few weeks ago there was heavy pruning of many trees
out at Pine Island. If so can I contact someone to request delay?
Philip
From: Philip Veerman
Sent: Sunday, 25 October 2015 11:57 PM To:
Subject: [canberrabirds] Two more thoughts on blitz day
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Also this morning, watching a pair of Leaden Flycatchers building a nest and swapping times sitting in it. Also Noisy Friarbirds nearby and they often nest near but I didn’t find any NF nests. (The nest is easy to find and would be easy
to photograph being about 5 metres from the car park which is about 2 km from Tuggeranong hyperdome) if someone wants to ask me.
I found many nestings in the 2 days without trying too hard.
Philip
