Brolga

 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.