We recently saw some 9 GCB's nest building - this seems late in the season? Does anyone know if this could just have been a communal roosting nest? Is this common?
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ZambeziBoy, here's some information from the Reader's Digest Complete Book of Australian Birds: "Grey-crowned babblers begin breeding with the spring rains and stop after the peak in summer rainfall; they can also breed during unseasonably warm and wet autumns and winters. The whole group roosts each night in a dormitory, and many dormitories are built and repaired throughout the year. Nests and dormitories look alike, but nests are built for each breeding attempt." I'm glad you posted these photos. I've learned something for today!
Hi from me too, where I live (Vic), I have noticed because of the warm weather, some Honeyeaters have started to refurbish their nests, The Welcome Swallows are cleaning nesting material out the old nest. No idea what to make of it either? But I remember from last year, sometimes birds "do get it wrong", they do another brood, and it all goes wrong.Then again it might mean, there is a lot of nice weather still to come. I should like that idea.
I posted something in regards to that under "Best Photos "today.
M-L
I think grey-crowned babblers refurbish their nests as part of their seasonal routine rather than because of the weather. But I agree, Araminta, there are a few signs that some creatures & plants think it's spring. I can't say that I noticed this phenomenon in my younger days, probably because I wasn't paying enough attention, but I wonder if it is, in fact, a recent occurrence that a burst of warm weather in autumn will get the reproductive behaviours going again in some species.
I'm with you on that, (I mainly concentrated my efforts around early spring when I was young, LOL), but as far as the birds in my garden are concerned, I have observed the same last autumn. Would be interesting to hear what other members think?
M-L