A post-modern hollow

[Jack & Andrea Holland <>]

And the same thing happened in Darwinia Tce Chapman within my GBS site many years ago, well before the fires and probably longer than 17 years ago.  I clearly recall young were fledged from the nest.  Jack Holland

 

From: Geoffrey Dabb

Sent: Monday, September 10, 2018 9:17 AM

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Subject: FW: [canberrabirds] A post-modern hollow

 

This was a slide to illustrate ‘ Myna Rage’  for the purpose of an old talk.  The street light was in Sturt Street, Griffith, about 17 years ago.

 

 

From: Philip Veerman [
Sent: Sunday, 9 September 2018 8:57 PM
To: 'Dr David Rosalky';
Subject: RE: [canberrabirds] A post-modern hollow

 

Hopefully they get electrocuted……….

 

From: Dr David Rosalky [
Sent: Sunday, 9 September, 2018 5:17 PM
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Subject: [canberrabirds] A post-modern hollow

 

A pair of Common Mynas in my street in Deakin has chosen a broken street light for a nesting hollow.  The shield glass has broken leaving a fair-sized, if rather jagged, opening.

I can’t see exactly what stage they are at but it appears there is grass and other nesting material in the light; I have seen one bird in the nest and one on top of the post with a large insect in its bill; I have seen both birds in the nest.

 

But I have not seen incubation or feeding activity yet.  So I am not sure if they yet have eggs in the light. I’ll keep watching.

 

David Rosalky