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Martin, like you we are watching a YF honeyeater nest very close to the house, ours is in a laurestina bush at the end of the deck. (Popular real estate competed for by several species yearly, but last year a nest full of 3 YF chicks were drowned in a
downpour). Three chicks now being fed. Parents chasing off any eg New Hollands who dare to approach. Drama yesterday: a small bird crashed into the window right by the bush, fell to the ground, one of the adult YFs attacked it. I went to the rescue - it was
a Horsfields Bronze cuckoo, not badly hurt. It clung to my finger for half an hour so I was able to admire its iridescent plumage and markings. After a spell in a basket, under a hat, it flew into the trees.
Libby
Harold's Cross
On 20 Jan 2017, at 8:40 am, Martin Butterfield <> wrote:
Yesterday evening I was walking up to check the letterbox and recover the recycling bin when I became aware of 3 Magpies kicking up a ruckus and jumping around on the ground at the Creek
crossing. My initial thought was that they were assaulting the resident Water Dragons. Close, but no cigar. As I approached the Magpies flew away a 1.5 Rd-bellied Black Snake emerged from the vegetation and slithered across the road to the grass on the
other side.
We have a Yellow-faced Honeyeater nest (now with young) in a floribunda rose on our deck. I check it each day and for the last two the sitting adult has been absent. Although the nest
is well shaded I wondered if several days of heat had done for the chicks. However my second check this morning showed the adult back
in situ so I assume all is well beneath it.
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