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791, Spectacled Weaver Ploceus ocularis (see species summary here)Record status ACCEPTED Vm 2003 [on-line data upload (2012-03-19): 14665] Species Spectacled Weaver Observer(s) Lickfold, Tina Country, town, locus South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Richards Bay,
2832CCLocality Meerensee Latitude, longitude -28.768872222222, 32.111613888889 [0 m accuracy] Date 2012/3/11 Notes [see previous record] Heard chirping for the first time on 06/03/12. I spent Sunday afternoon trying to get a photo & I've attached the best I could get with my point & shoot.
Addendum: Unfortunately they lost one of the chicks last Tuesday 13 March. We found the body about ten feet from the nest so suspect that a parent carried it out rather than it fell. However, they are still busy feeding very noisy chicks so all is not lost. Nest count 1 Nest site tree
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Note: repeats from the same day are not shown.vm Species code Date Nests Notes 2002 791 2/3/2012 1 Some weeks ago I trimmed back the low fronds of our wild date palm & noticed that I had cut down a partly build nest. I felt really bad but as luck would have it he started to build another nest round about 16/02/12. We had friends round on the evening of 28/02/12 & noticed lots of activity at the nest. I took the nest photo on 02/03/12 [to be continued] 2003 791 11/3/2012 1 [see previous record] Heard chirping for the first time on 06/03/12. I spent Sunday afternoon trying to get a photo & I've attached the best I could get with my point & shoot.
Addendum: Unfortunately they lost one of the chicks last Tuesday 13 March. We found the body about ten feet from the nest so suspect that a parent carried it out rather than it fell. However, they are still busy feeding very noisy chicks so all is not lost. 2006 791 20/3/2012 1 The spectacled weavers in the palm tree are now feeding one baby that left the nest this morning. The youngster is quite deep in the palm.
21 March - The baby changed his position in the palm tree several times over two or three hours, but then the whole family disappeared! No sight or sound of any of them until dusk, when both parents visited the nest briefly; one staying inside for two or three minutes and the other just hanging around the entrance, then they both flew off and we haven't seen or heard anything of them since.
Attached is a rather fuzzy photograph of the chick that fell from the nest on the 13th and another of the nest yesterday morning after the baby left.
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