> David, Are you going to respond to the author of this website about this?
Yes, I'm planning to contact them with the information - and to tell them
that the nests don't need to be cleaned out!
I'm glad I asked the list because while I guessed the bird family
correctly, I was wrong about the species.
On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Philip Veerman <> wrote:
> It looks to me like just fairy martin nests. I think the ones without the
> spout are just unfinished or broken away fairy martin nests. Unless there
> is
> something really strange about the scale, it seems really weird to think
> these are wasps' nests.
>
> David, Are you going to respond to the author of this website about this?
>
> Philip
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> On Behalf Of Ross
> Macfarlane
> Sent: Sunday, 3 November 2013 11:55 AM
> To: David Adams; Birding-Aus
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Photo ID: Welcome Swallow nests?
>
>
> Mixture of welcome swallow and fairy martin (bottle swallow) nests to my
> eye...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Adams
> Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2013 11:40 AM
> To: Birding-Aus
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Photo ID: Welcome Swallow nests?
>
> I was just reading an article about the old transcontinental telegraph
> route
> that includes a picture of "wasp nests." They look like swallow nests to me
> (third picture down):
>
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/02/zombie_communications_decaying_in_th
> e_desert/
>
> Not being particularly strong on nest identification (at best) and never
> having been to this part of the country, can anyone suggest whose nests the
> picture depicts? They look every bit like swallow nests to me and, as best
> as I can guess, Welcome Swallows are the only likely bird in the middle of
> the continent.
>
> Thoughts welcome!
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