20 May, 2010

Incubating: Whiskered Treeswift

16th May 2010, Kemensah, Selangor.

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Haha……, I know what you must be thinking. It’s  Madi and his Kelantanese  humour  again, he’s pulling our legs!  What nest, what egg?

Patience  and all will be revealed. OK , from a different angle. A single white egg on a tiny nest superglued to the  branch of a Rambutan tree  right in the middle of a vehicle trail hardly 12 feet from the ground. I don’t know how many days she’d been incubating the egg but I will be following the progress over the next few weeks.

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On my way out of Kemensah I noticed that the male ( with rufous ear covert)  had taken  the position over the egg.

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19th May 2010 Wednesday: Went  into Kemensah  after work to  check the nest at about 5.45pm. Phew, it’s still there. The male  was on duty. No sign  that the egg had hatched.

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Next checkup will be on Saturday

 

A female Whiskered Treeswift sitting on her nest while brooding her egg.

5 comments:

  1. Unbelievable small nest.
    Thanks for showing this.

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  2. The photos show what words could not adequately describe.

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  3. The nest is amazingly small. Great catch!

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  4. Great discovery, Madi ! Hard to believe that the nest is so tiny....

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  5. Fantastic capture!
    mikebirder

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