Breaking news (always wanted to say that). It seems the female LW was suitably impressed by her partner's courtship display because I just spotted her with a bill full of long, dry grass. She went to the banksia and the pink gum first - maybe a decoy run? - then to the sheoak, emerging from there with an empty beak. The sheoak, with its dense tangle of fine branches, offers good protection from predators - currawongs, magpies, possums - as it's hard to land on and get into. The baby LWs spent a lot of their infancy in that sheoak. Speaking of which, I spotted one of the juveniles yesterday sitting quietly in the pink gum. If the sheoak is to be the nest tree then the main issue, I think, will be the annoyance factor of the New Hollands and access to their favourite banksia which is right next door..
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