Mundaring
Hardware continue to sponsor our School Nest Box Program, donating
screws, hinges and other bits and pieces to our cause. Part of the
reason Rusty, Carolyn and Peter love birds so much is because they are
regularly visited by a family of Red-tailed Black Cockatoos. These birds
like to feed on the fruiting jarrah trees growing in the hardware shop
compound.
As a ‘thankyou gift’ for
their wonderful support, we made Mundaring Hardware a nest-box suitable
for black cockies, with the hope that one day the resident red-tails may
rear a chick inside. This is a specially designed box which is
orientated vertically with an ‘open top’ entrance. According to one of
the state’s leading cockatoo experts Ron Johnstone from the WA Museum,
cockies prefer the open top and it stops competition from over-abundant
natives like galahs and corellas.
Today
we took the box around to hang it in one of the large trees at the
hardware shop. Here are some photos of the installation process. Let’s
hope they get some new tenants very soon!
Assessing the tree and setting up the hoisting ropes...
Up she goes... into position...
DONE! Now we need some cockatoos :-)
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