Yorke's Hollow - February round up
I have visited Yorke’s Hollow a few times over the last few weeks – always at around 7am, for 15 minutes only. Bird activity has been pretty constant . The usual few Welcome Swallows and 1 or 2 Tree Martins, the resident Noisy Miners, the pair of Willie Wagtails and the apparently homeless Crested Pigeons, varying numbers of Wood Duck, Swamphens and Moorhens. Interesting to see the one chick each that the Swamphens and Moorhen families have reared. The chicks are quite advanced, by now, as most water bird young are, but they are still dependent on their parents for protection and direction. The Magpie Larks nested on the head of one of the statutes in the pond – an aboriginal likeness – and have re-used the nest for a second brood, I think. It’s in such a, relatively, safe spot, they could use it all year round or for successive breeding seasons! I did have one Brown Honeyeater one morning – an unusual visitor who hasn’t been seen since.
