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803, Southern Masked Weaver Ploceus velatus (see species summary here)Record status ACCEPTED Vm 5044 [on-line data upload (2013-01-11): 30416] Species Southern Masked Weaver Observer(s) Rens, Lynette Country, town, locus South Africa, Gauteng, Johannesburg,
2628AALocality 3 Escombe Ave Latitude, longitude -26.177294, 28.021356 [0 m accuracy] Date 2012/12/27 Notes The 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. Nest count 2 Nest site tree
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Note: repeats from the same day are not shown.vm Species code Date Nests Notes 5044 803 27/12/2012 2 The 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. 5045 803 29/12/2012 0 The 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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