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803, Southern Masked Weaver Ploceus velatus (see species summary here)

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Record statusACCEPTED
Vm5044 [on-line data upload (2013-01-11): 30416]
SpeciesSouthern Masked Weaver
Observer(s)Rens, Lynette
Country, town, locusSouth Africa, Gauteng, Johannesburg,
2628AA
Locality3 Escombe Ave
Latitude, longitude-26.177294, 28.021356 [0 m accuracy]
Date2012/12/27
NotesThe sun came out, so I tried to photograph the latest second year weaver's nest (cell phone photo). The previous one had a loft room, but was torn down. With this one he started with the top nest, which took 3 days. He then added the 'neck' if you'd like to call it that - it could be a stairwell to downstairs, and that took 1 day, the lower nest took 3 days, and at one stage had 3 openings - he hung on to the lowest opening while pushing privet leaves through one of the side openings, while the female hopped around on a nearby branch. On Christmas Eve he had completed it, having taken in cyprus leaves as well, presumably to line the nest, and was stripping the bay tree of surrounding leaves . On Christmas Day it WAS complete. It is still there today, Thursday 27th December, so we can hope, although I haven't seen either the male or the female.
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vmSpecies codeDateNestsNotes
504480327/12/20122The sun came out, so I tried to photograph the latest second year weaver's nest (cell phone photo). The previous one had a loft room, but was torn down. With this one he started with the top nest, which took 3 days. He then added the 'neck' if you'd like to call it that - it could be a stairwell to downstairs, and that took 1 day, the lower nest took 3 days, and at one stage had 3 openings - he hung on to the lowest opening while pushing privet leaves through one of the side openings, while the female hopped around on a nearby branch. On Christmas Eve he had completed it, having taken in cyprus leaves as well, presumably to line the nest, and was stripping the bay tree of surrounding leaves . On Christmas Day it WAS complete. It is still there today, Thursday 27th December, so we can hope, although I haven't seen either the male or the female.
504580329/12/20120The nest came down yesterday. He couldn't get the pieces he wound around the branchlet, so grabbed it with his beak, and swung out. It almost did the trick but he didn't repeat it while I was watching. The pic shows the components of the double storey second-year weaver's nest that was destroyed yesterday. The actual nest was too far away, and foreshortened - the neck was quite long. It was nice being able to pick up pieces of the debris to show what was used in the building.

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