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A post-modern hollow

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Subject: A post-modern hollow
From: "David McDonald (personal)" <>
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 11:06:24 +0000
The many sociologists on this list are probably scratching their heads trying to work out how a broken street light, with a myna nest in it, is aptly describes as 'post-modern'.

The appellation perhaps reflects the contested definitions of post-modernism?

David

On 2018-09-09 17:17, Dr David Rosalky wrote:

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

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