It has been a case of good news and bad news. The good news
is that a Morepork nested and sat on two eggs in the nest box for over 30 days
which is the incubation period. The bad news is that the eggs were infertile so
nothing hatched. Juveniles reach sexual maturity at the end of their first
year, but the male only mates when he is two years old and female when she is
three years old so we are wondering if they are an immature pair. We had two
eggs laid last year but they never sat on them. Those eggs were also infertile.
We are hoping for a successful year this coming season.
The bird would temporarily leave the nest when we visited
the box. She never seemed stressed in
any way so this enabled one of our team, Jeanette Holborow, to take some
excellent photos including a short video picture. Click on this link and it
will take you to it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9393rngZEsE&feature=youtu.be
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| Looking in the nest box using a built in camera |
1 comment:
Thank you for sharing! Excited to see what happens next season. It seems great that they came back this year, even!
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