The local birds like the town amenities. Grey-crowned Babblers are using
a next in a small tree on the footpath in frony of 2 Perseverance Dam Road
Regards
Grahame Rogers
Webmaster
www.crowsnest.info
On 02-Oct-16 5:41 PM, Judith L-A wrote:
> Still another female is using hole/s excavated / enlarged in the replaced
> eave of an old 2-storey building. Throughout the town, males call & call,
> getting ever closer to the entrance, till they can feed their female there or
> outside.
>
> JLA
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>> From: Judith L-A <>
>> Date: 2 October 2016 at 5:16:34 PM AEST
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>> Subject: Fwd: unusual / adaptive nest
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>> And on the other side of the town common, a female Red-Rump is using a metal
>> hollow inside the high overhang of one of Crows Nest's newest buildings.
>> Seems to be a species culture here.
>>
>> JLA
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>>> From: Judith L-A <>
>>> Date: 30 September 2016 at 2:57:33 PM AEST
>>> To:
>>> Subject: Fwd: unusual / adaptive nest
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>>> Both birds sweep in again, & onto the top of the 2nd pediment. The male
>>> feeds the female copiously, then both fly off again. Perhaps the nest is
>>> not complete yet? Though certainly the female spent plenty of time in/at
>>> it, earlier...
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>>>> From: Judith L-A <>
>>>> Date: 30 September 2016 at 2:34:41 PM AEST
>>>> To:
>>>> Subject: unusual / adaptive nest
>>>>
>>>> Red-rumpled Parrot --
>>>>
>>>> In the centre of Crows Nest town (Qld), a pair of Red-rumps nesting inside
>>>> the fascia-pediment of an old brick shop. A couple of metres away, in the
>>>> opposite crevice-corner, sparrows are nest-building.
>>>>
>>>> No date on the building, but architectural signs of age outside & in, &
>>>> signs of repair/exclusion attempts in the paired crevice-corners of both
>>>> pediments.
>>>>
>>>> The brown female goes in, while the bright male flits about on the cornice
>>>> above, twittering, till finally he takes to the powerline, calls her out,
>>>> & they dash away together.
>>>>
>>>> JLA
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