June 9, 2012.
The myna's expelled the sparrows from the card board nest box and now mynas occupied the same.
Initially the myna's thrown out the nesting material of the sparrow. Mynas re-constructed the nest for about 15days by bringing twigs, feathers, and tweets. Earlier the nest was shabby and now it made it order. Initially the myna's were sensitive to human movement, now it was familar with us and not bothered even if we present in the balcony. They comes and goes without bothering our presence near them.
The myna's are more cacophony in nature, it is showing various strange gestures and always noisy. I start liking its mannerism.
A picture of myna's taking off from the nest box.
The myna's expelled the sparrows from the card board nest box and now mynas occupied the same.
Initially the myna's thrown out the nesting material of the sparrow. Mynas re-constructed the nest for about 15days by bringing twigs, feathers, and tweets. Earlier the nest was shabby and now it made it order. Initially the myna's were sensitive to human movement, now it was familar with us and not bothered even if we present in the balcony. They comes and goes without bothering our presence near them.
The myna's are more cacophony in nature, it is showing various strange gestures and always noisy. I start liking its mannerism.
A picture of myna's taking off from the nest box.
The mynah brings various items to built its nest, see, it has brought a used polythene cover here, It is using green leaves, used plastic tea cups, feathers, used cotton..and so on. So can we say the birds adopt themselves to use the synthetic materials such as "Plastics".. I don't know how these synthetic material have an effect on their chicks and its use.. only systematic scientific study on the behaviour and effect pattern will unravel some intersting facts...
July 8th 2012
For the past 15 days, I could observe intense activity around the nest box as hatching process completed and I could see a little you myna peeping out of the hole. Father and mother myna's continously feeding the young chick. But the strange thing is, there is only one chick in the nest. The young chick was fed by insects, small lizards, earthworm.. I was amazed by the continous feeding.. how come a small chick eat soo much? From morning to evening, taking turns, both father & mother myna brings feeds continiously and feeding the chick, however, there is no spillage and dropping near the nest box. It is absolutely neat & clean@# this is quite contrary to the pigeons, last time when pigeon incubated, it almost spiled the whole place by its dropping, but I could not spot even a single droppings of myna. Neat and clean fellows.. Moreover, the young chick continously sounds and both parent myna's also making various kind of sounds, and during this hatching period it is very lively.. Today, being Sunday, I could get time to observe and I clicked some photos, the mother myna brought a lizard to feed the chick...see the pictures on the top....
1 comment:
Nice work man.Can you please tell me the exact entrance hole diameter(in mm) of your cardboard myna nest box.I am trying to build one nest box out of plywood. If possible also tell the cardboard box dimensions. Thanks.
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