I’m having second thoughts about the nesting of the log-runners. It really looked as though the bird was building a nest – spending a lot f time moving bits of leaf, twig etc. with the bill and scratching around in circles up against a log instead of moving on and scratching in other places – as though preparing the ground and arranging material, but I realized later it was a male, and only females build the nest. The female was nearby. Did the male decide to give hand this time? Or did he perhaps just find some particularly interesting insects that took a lot of uncovering? It was the way he kept picking up bits that looked like possible nesting material and pivoting around in the same spot for so long that made it look like the start of nest-building.
Ronda Green, BSc(Hons) PhD Araucaria Ecotours http://www.learnaboutwildlife.com Chair Wildlife Tourism Australia: http://wildlifetourism.org.au Chair Scenic Rim Wildlife: http://scenicrim.wildlife.org.au/ Honorary research fellow Griffith University
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