I watched a pair of Powerful Owls commence breeding this evening in a
valley at Winmalee (60km west of Sydney in the lower Blue Mountains).
The tree (Eucalyptus deanei) and hollow are the same as the pair used
last year to successfully raise one owlet. I first heard a female call
four times at 5.04 and about twenty minutes later a male flew up onto a
branch of the nest tree and called softly to the female which flew up
beside it. The male stood up on the hen's back and spread its wings and
began copulating accompanied by high pitched squeals presumably made by
the female. They then both flew out of sight and five minutes later one
bird flew up to the hollow and slowly entered. Several minutes later the
other bird flew to the hollow entrance and also entered.
Neil Kirby
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