The take-home message from this is, as the real-estate people say, “build it and they will come”. Nest boxes work, and provide valuable habitat. Natural hollows take so long to form, so it is worthwhile to build the odd little house for our marsupial and avian friends. This nest box has been up several years now, but within a month of installation, it had been occupied by gliders.
I captured this infra-red footage of a brush-tailed phascogale and a sugar glider visiting the same nest box on my property last weekend…
First the phascogale…
Now the glider, on the previous night…
I don’t know what was going on there: was the phascogale preying on the glider’s young?
