Who made this nest?

[Gary Davidson <>]

As mentioned by the previous writer, without any size it is tough to say for sure.  But there are a few species that make these very round mud nests.  I saw one in central NSW a few months ago that was perfectly round on the outside, like the photo, and it was being attended by a pair of Apostlebirds.

Gary

Timothy Dickson <> wrote:

> I was out at Moorrinya National Park (central western Qld) as 
> part of my studies at JCU recently and we found this nest on 
> the ground. Click link for photo:
> http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v376/Oriolus/TableNest.jpg
>
> Many suggestions were put forward as to the builder but the 
> unusual feature was that the bottom of the nest was 
> completely flat, as flat as the table it's sitting on - it 
> was clearly not attatched to a tree and no ground nesting 
> bird would build such a structure. I'm certain that it must 
> have been built in or on a building (of which there were 
> several nearby) and I think one of the woodswallow species 
> would be the most likely suspect (I saw Masked, Little & 
> White-browed during the trip). Would anyone like to comment? 
> In particular I would love to hear peoples experiences of 
> woodswallows nesting in bui!
>  dlings.
>  
>
> FYI Moorrinya National Park is about 1.5 hours south of 
> Torrens Creek, which is just east of Hughenden, Queensland. 
> I'll send some trip notes to the list at a latter date. 
> --------------------------------------------
> Birding-Aus is now on the Web at
> www.birding-aus.org
> --------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message 'unsubscribe
> birding-aus' (no quotes, no Subject line)
> to

---

Post your free ad now! Yahoo! Canada Personals