Pre-spring: Late July-August Spotted Pardalote Pardalotus punctatus Pardalotidae One of #Australia’s smallest #birds, the #SpottedPardalote builds its #nest in a long horizontal #tunnel dug into the #soil of #creekbanks, the #embankments of #railway cuttings, #quarries or similar suitable sites, and sometimes they even excavate tunnels in #rabbitburrows, or #pottedplants in #gardens. The nest itself is spherical, made from strips of #bark, and built in a chamber at the end of