high-rise hollows

However quickly you get the saplings in the ground, it’s a long time till they are mature enough to provide nesting hollows. So in the meantime it’s good to give nature a head start by putting up nesting boxes.

Or, as we have done at The Forktree Project, make nesting “boxes” out of old hollow logs - in this case hollow logs cleared by nearby landowners and otherwise destined for a log burner or mulcher. And they look beautiful, we think! A win-win: creating nesting habitat that blends in, keeping usable hollows in the ecosystem playing their part and out of the woodburner. Thank you to the landowners who donated them - by so doing, making a very real contribution to habitat restoration.

A privilege to have microbiologist and restoration ecologist Jake Robinson donning his helmet and harness and helping install our nesting hollows in the small and very precious stand of mature pink gums (Eucalyptus fasciculosa) on the Forktree Project site.

Thank you, Jake and Tim, from us and the birds who will use them - and from the landscape the birds are so crucial part to as ecosystem engineers.