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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