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RFI: nests, SEQ, 500m

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Subject: RFI: nests, SEQ, 500m
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Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 15:27:42 +1000
Two similar-looking nests on my place (at Ocean View / Mt Mee) are completely defeating my ability to identify them. Both appear to be not in use at present. Each nest is large. They are visible only from below. Each has a round-boxy shape (from below). They are made of sticks. Between the sticks, or as an inner layer, is a dense compact of (now dead) leaves - either from Callistemon or Melaleuca. Both nests appear 'messy', untidy. The larger of the two is two metres up, on the joint of a horizontal branch, close up against the trunk - of a spiky pine (?Bunya Pine?). So bulky is it (or is this the craft of the bird?) that dried vegetation, including grasses, has ?spilled from it into the lower branches. The other one, conversely, is in the high outer branches of a Blackwood (Acacia). The terminal clump of leaves of one or more branches/twigs appears to have been collected/woven into the nest itself. This would put it at about 6 or 8 metres above ground. Both trees are along the same fenceline, on an east-facing slope. On either side are paddocky 'gardens'. (One of these gardens has recorded more than 70 species of birds.) Very nearby are three dams, one on a more 'bush' block.

Any ideas:?
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Judith L-A
S-E Qld
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