Last week I mentioned the profusion of nesting White-browed
Woodswallows on my place in the Capertee Valley (NSW). Since then
I've found more nests built in even more interesting sites - for
example one nest in an old Magpie-lark nest - the female looking very
happy with herself sitting in the lovely mud bowl. One of the nests I
found last week now has three fluffy chicks.
And at April Mills' cottage, a pair of White-browed Woodswallows are
nesting in the top of the rain gauge! I guess it hasn't rained for a
while. A much safer site was chosen by a one who is nesting in an
elbow of plumbers pipe under a small roof which forms part of an
"apartment block" which April had built for Zebra Finches to nest in.
This unique construction is difficult to describe to anyone who
hasn't actually seen it.
It seems that everywhere you look there are White-browed Woodswallows
sitting on nests. I love it!
On the way out of the valley on Friday I saw a Square-tailed Kite
over Pearson's Lookout at Capertee.
Carol
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