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Hi there birders,
It never ceases to amaze me how resilient birds (and other creatures too)
are to human intrusion into their territory.
I teach at a local primary school and yesterday we had our annual sports
day. I was rather preoccupied during the day to observe many birds but near the
end of proceedings I was aware of an Australian Magpie regularly visiting a
nest. It was flying in with food it had gathered in the railway
station reserve opposite the oval.
This nest was immediately above or near (less than 50m) over 600+
screaming children and some 300+ adults, many of whom were cheering on their
team to win during the relay events, not to mention the starter's gun some 15m
from the tree.
It was a very pleasant ending to an otherwise testing day; my team came
last!
Happy birding,
Trevor Hampel
Murray Bridge
South Aust
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