Baldy's head is looking worse than ever, with very little red left, although he now has one red plume. However his behaviour seems unaffected and he and his partner spend a lot of time grooming each other. They are still working on two hollows. There seems to be some problem with Hollow 2 as they often sit on the edge and complain loudly into it, but they persist with it, and 4 days ago, they both entered it and were clearly doing construction work. Hollow 3 seems to be a backup in case it's needed. Today they were both near Hollow 3 when we arrived, but she quickly flew to 2 and started complaining. He stayed and was able to chase off the annoying magpie that has made observations very difficult recently. He then joined her at 2 where they did lots of grooming next to the hollow but didn't go in. We have also seen them chasing off cockatoos from Hollow 2.
Thanks Cath - the growling is usually reserved for when there is another animal in the Hollow - interestingly they chased a Sulphur Crested Cockatoo away - I wonder whether the Cockatoo was in the hollow when they were growling. Also good on Baldy for demonstrating that Gang-gangs prepare more than one hollow - we had observed this and were 99.9% sure but good to have it at 100%.
Also I am transferring this record to the proper Gang-Gang records as I want the identified Gang-gang page to act as a gallery of loveable rogues. However please keep putting any new sightings of identifiable birds into this category so that I am alerted to and can record down in my book the seperate sightings
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