Jackie Winter

JACKY WINTER Microeca fascinans

Seeing the Jacky Winters busily collecting insects in their beaks, was a giveaway for a nest with young nearby. Still nesting in the early weeks of January.









 

It did not take long to find the nest, very small nest of grass and bark, perched precariously in the fork of  long, dead branch. Still nesting in the early weeks of January.














Not wanting to approach too closely, I watched for quite while. There were five or six unfledged young, loudly calling for food each time a parent bird approached.











 I was watching at about 5.00 in the evening and the sun was beginning to drop to the west. One of the parent birds, how does one know if it is the male or female, then settled itself onto the nest. If it could talk I am sure it would be saying, "time to settle down you lot, bed time."