In a recent post about the general topic of Robins - mainly the Australo-Papuan flavour of same - I commented that the Eastern Yellow Robins had taken up residence in some dense vegetation in our garden. This afternoon I spotted one perched in a very exposed position.
Slightly behind it was another bird with a long worm or - more likely looking at the food section of HANZAB - caterpillar in its beak which it showed no signs of eating. I therefore suspect that it had a nest full of chicks somewhere close at hand. Shortly afterwards I took a poor photo of both birds sitting in the base of the bushes.
I never found the nest but a couple of days later a bird was hopping around making begging noises and attracting the attention of several other species. I strongly suspect this was a recently fledged young bird, possibly at the stage - not officially recognised by ornithologists or (left wing) sociologists - of Indolent Young (ie capable of independent living but prefers to bludge off its parents).
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