New Hollands can nest in any month of the year. Although Pizzey states July to
January as the main breeding season, they regularly breed throughout the autumn
months. This year I watched one feeding nestlings on 11th May while thousands
of Yellow-faced and White-naped Honeyeaters migrated over.
I’ll never forget once finding a New Holland nest with 2 nestlings right beside
an active lyrebird mound in mid-winter, while the lyrebird was in full display.
What a show to begin your life with!
Cheers,
Carol
Carol Probets
Blue Mountains, NSW
> On 28 May 2017, at 9:00 pm, wrote:
>
> Today l noticed two fledgling NHHs in a shrub outside my lounge room window.
> They must have hatched early May which seems fairly early according to Pizzey
> et al. Has anyone else noticed early breeding in Honeyeaters ( or extremely
> late!)?
>
>
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