Male baya weavers with partially accomplished nests at a nesting colony on a palm tree in Polachery, close to Thalambur, off Old Mahabalipuram Road, on May 2, 2023
| Photo Credit: PRINCE FREDERICK
This grasp builder doesn’t have it straightforward
There is a freezing coldness to how the male baya weaver might be given the quick shrift. Even after it has poured its coronary heart and soul into a labour of love — a nest that’s a weaving masterpiece — a male baya weaver can go pairless, if none of the females heat as much as it.
So, Nature has constructed a mechanism into the species that blunts the sting of this rejection. Usually, the male baya weaver shows a half-completed nest to females, thereby halving the frustration, if any. After it has paired off, the remainder of the nest is accomplished, normally with the help of the feminine.
While promoting the half-completed nest, the male baya weaver can be hanging from it, and flap its wings with nervous pleasure. The show and the efficiency are very important to drawing consideration.
The baya weavers usually nest throughout the monsoons, as each availability of meals and nesting materials — typically the hen finds each in paddy fields — are prone to be in plentiful provide.
However, the timing would possibly fluctuate deepening on the supply of these sources.
The photographs from Polachery, not too removed from Thalambur, off Old Mahabalipuram Road that present a nesting colony at a plam tree on the bund of waterbody had been frozen on May 2. There are paddy fields onerous by.
Following the showers in latest days, black winged stilts have needed to abandon the stony platforms the place that they had constructed their nests, on the Perumbakkam wetland. With the water stage growing, most of these platforms have significantly sunk. This picture from May 5, 2023, reveals a black winged stilt lingering on what was a nesting platform not too way back.
| Photo Credit:
PRINCE FREDERICK
Recent rains go away black-winged stilts ‘homeless’
Last week, the highlight was on a nesting colony established by black-winged stilts. With the water stage dropping on the Perumbakkam wetland, these birds had used the stones that had emerged over the dwindling waters, to construct their nests.
Since the, surprising showers hit the soil and the wetland was a wee bit overrated with water, however that was ample to “sink” the platforms significantly or totally, and likewise the black-winged stilts’ efforts at raising households.
A black-winged stilt nesting on a stony platfrom in Sholinganallur marshland, on April 24, 2023.
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PRINCE FREDERICK
A nesting black-winged stilt is extraordinarily combative, tearing into any hen that comes inside sniffing distance of its treasured house. When the nesting colony was on, the air can be lease by the excited cries of black-winged stilts bristling at heckling crows, and even harmless birds that had been standing by, with out hardly any mischief on their minds. While the black-winged stilts had been in a position to fend off the “intruders”, essentially the most surprising and extra highly effective intruder, the purveyor of rain couldn’t be stored off their homestead.
