In a home building frenzy , flights of Sunbirds have been sighted both searching for new nest sites and busily getting on with the job of constructing dwellings . Some former nest locations are popular. One bird was photographed sizing up a televisian aerial atop a house as a potential nest location with a view .
A former nest site , at the end of a clothesline , under a back verandah , is once more the scene of much activity .
Birds are flying in with bits of sticky cobweb , pieces of dry grass , string and enegetically weaving it into the growing, hanging structure . They are not distracted by humans nearby. Often two at a time , the birds descend on frayed rope tied about a shrub and tug out fluffy threads , possibly good for soft lining , see below .
The metal hook at the end of the rope below has been examined several times , but seems not to fill the bill for a nest site .
