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Secure parking Swallows

To: John Layton <>, "" <>
Subject: Secure parking Swallows
From: David Rees via Canberrabirds <>
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2021 23:49:44 +0000
John

I have seen Sparrows do it  in NZ, supermarkets, cafes etc.

David


On 9/09/2021 3:06 pm, John Layton via Canberrabirds wrote:
> I have read accounts of Welcome Swallows hovering in the path of beams in 
> order to open doors of buildings!
>
> John Layton
> Holt
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Canberrabirds  
> On Behalf Of Alison Rowell
> Sent: Thursday, 9 September 2021 2:31 PM
> To: 
> Subject: Re: [Canberrabirds] Secure parking Swallows
>
> Many Welcome Swallows used to roost securely overnight in the House of 
> Representatives underground car park and also relied on car movements to let 
> them out in the morning. In the Parliament House public underground car park 
> some years ago a pair of Pied Currawongs found that by building their nest on 
> the illuminated Exit sign their young could be kept warm by the light while 
> the parents hunted for moths around the car park lights at midnight. I 
> wouldn’t have been surprised if that pair raised two sets of young that year.
> Alison R
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Canberrabirds <> On 
> Behalf Of Isobel Crawford
> Sent: Thursday, 9 September 2021 1:13 PM
> To: calyptorhynchus <>
> Cc: 
> Subject: Re: [Canberrabirds] Secure parking Swallows
>
> Australian Magpie Larks at National Library had perfected this technique too.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On 9 Sep 2021, at 12:54 pm, calyptorhynchus via Canberrabirds 
>> <> wrote:
>>
>> 
>> Walking along Irving Street Phillip this morning I watched two swallows 
>> swoop down the ramp of a below-street car-park under one of the new 
>> apartment blocks. They perched on a sign and I noticed that one was carrying 
>> a feather in its beak.
>>
>> Within a few seconds the automatic gates began to open to let a car exit and 
>> both swallows swooped underneath and went inside.
>>
>> The presence of the feather in the beak of one and the fact they were a pair 
>> made me infer they had begun a nest in there and had already worked out the 
>> access routine. I hope people come and go often enough for them to to be 
>> able to access as often as they need to
>>
>> -- 
>> John Leonard
>>
>>
>> -- 
>>
>
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