BROLGAS
We have a pair of Brolgas nesting on a dam in the Willowmavin area, to the west of Kilmore.
This pair returns each year. A lady I spoke to on the road told me this
pair had nested and raised a chick last year on a dam on her property,
about a kilometre away.
I saw them at another site, two years ago in a paddock with a dried up
dam, again about a kilometre from this nesting site. No chick that year.
From a distance of about two hundred metres away, a single large egg can
be seen perched on a nest on the edge of a dam. It was good planning
by the parent birds to build the nest high. There has been much water
around this year.
The lady I spoke told me of swan's nest nearby with chicks. That nest
was covered by water and the chicks there did not survive.
I first saw this pair on November 5. The egg was in place then. November
25th today; it cannot be much longer to wait Normal time in the egg is
32 days. Very wet, windy and cold today. We hope they are all right.
