Day: October 12, 2015

We’ve been up around the Newstead area this past week.  Went up for the annual Werribee Birdlife (Formerly Werribee Wagtails) camp out.

On one afternoon in the RIse and Shine Bushland area we were quietly travelling through the forest, when I was pretty sure I’d heard the familiar “Peter, Peter Peter” of Jacky.
So we stopped and eventually I reckoned it about 500mm further down so we went to look. No doubt about it, a Jacky Winter, and quite vocal, and very busy.  The EE spotted a pattern of flying into one tree, and a few minutes later announced, like some magician about to pull  a rabbit from a hat.  “Look, she is building a nest!”.

Now of course you have got to have seen a Jacky Winter nest before to have any idea what you are looking for. Mr An Onymous who was with us peered into the trees, scratched his head, got out his ever dependable Nikon binos and looked again.  “Where?”  Which is a pretty good question as Jacky doesn’t exactly go in for high class up market building. If there was one of those ‘reality building’ shows for birds she’d be among the bottom of the backyards.

And there on a tiny Y in  branch was an almost imperceptible bulge.  And pretty soon Jacky confirmed that by adding some more spider web to hold it all together.

Hope she is successful.

Enjoy.