July 2012: The Nest

Their nest is huge! Nearly 2 metres in diameter and a metre deep. It sits 30m up in the tallest, strongest gum tree around. We've watched it hold perfectly steady in gusty winds that have bowed every other tree to their roots...

It's really quite entertaining to watch the pair conflabbing about where/how a new stick should be laid in the structure of the nest. One brings in a stick and plonks it down, the other sizes it up and tentatively places it, only to have it shifted by the other, then again shifted by the other...until finally they are both satisfied with the arrangement of the new furniture...