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803, Southern Masked Weaver Ploceus velatus (see species summary here)Record status ACCEPTED Vm 8799 [on-line data upload (2014-02-14): 68429] Species Southern Masked Weaver Observer(s) Schie, Frank Country, town, locus South Africa, Gauteng, Johannesburg,
2628AALocality Iris Road, Norwood Latitude, longitude -26.159646, 28.071622 [0 m accuracy] Date 2014/1/24 Notes This activity has been ongoing for a couple of months,almost on a daily basis(at least 4 to 5 times a week. I don't know who undoes it some nights or very early in the morning). Sometimes only one of the two feeders are woven(with long leaves stripped from the palm tree located across the road) but in the last couple of days it has also started bringing fronds from a cyress tree in our garden as well as fronds from a young indigenous doringboom some 2-3 metres away from the feeders.The male weaver in question is the first bird to arrive when the feeders are replenished and stands nearby on a branch of an overarching lemon tree with his wings a little spread and vigorously 'vibrates ' them. When other birds arrive(mainly weavers and sparrows) he chases them away, not always successfully. Sometimes he eats and other times he just stands guard and/or continues his weaving/building. Nest count 0 Nest site man-made
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Note: repeats from the same day are not shown.vm Species code Date Nests Notes 8799 803 24/1/2014 0 This activity has been ongoing for a couple of months,almost on a daily basis(at least 4 to 5 times a week. I don't know who undoes it some nights or very early in the morning). Sometimes only one of the two feeders are woven(with long leaves stripped from the palm tree located across the road) but in the last couple of days it has also started bringing fronds from a cyress tree in our garden as well as fronds from a young indigenous doringboom some 2-3 metres away from the feeders.The male weaver in question is the first bird to arrive when the feeders are replenished and stands nearby on a branch of an overarching lemon tree with his wings a little spread and vigorously 'vibrates ' them. When other birds arrive(mainly weavers and sparrows) he chases them away, not always successfully. Sometimes he eats and other times he just stands guard and/or continues his weaving/building. 8871 803 16/2/2014 0 VM 8799 revisited. It has now become more apparent that this male weaver is trying to keep all the seed in the feeders for himself and his partner.He stands guard when she arrives and feeds ,although he does this also when she is not around. After he wove the feeder as shown in the attached photo,I decided to see what would happen if I didn't put seed in the one he had elaborately closed up ,but only in the other one.He then started to weave on the one that had the seed. In the photo with him pursuing another male sparrow, you can see that he attacks him with his feet ,rather like an eagle. 
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