Birds breed in all sorts of nests so I wasn't surprised to see an Oriental Magpie Robin (Copsychus sauloris) going into a cavity up in the rotten tree trunk. I was simply fortunate to have caught it in the act.
I had once recorded a Magpie Robin nesting in the internal cable box of an old lamppost in the taman (reproduced pic at end of post).
"The Oriental Magpie Robin (Copsychus saularis) is one bird that builds its nest in a variety of places. These include shallow cavities that develop at the tops of rotting palm trunks and tree stumps. Less often, nests are seen among vegetation like the axils of coconut palms fronds, epiphytic ferns, in shrubs and according to Wells (1999), on a banana fruit-bunch.
... They build their nests almost anywhere from thick shrubs, in the fork of branches of small trees, palms (at the base of the palm frond), hollow trees and even near human habitation: under a veranda, in a hole in the wall, in an old tin can, and in stables. Nests are usually built low. Their nests are large, untidy, shallow cups loosely made from grass or dried leaves, twigs, moss, roots." (extract Bird Ecology Study Group, Aug 2018)
Shortly after, the bird shot out like a bullet.
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