Diary of a Magpie Lark nest

I was away for the weekend but when I arrived home yesterday I could see the Magpie Lark nest has finally developed into a beautiful cup shape typical of Magpie Lark nests.
There wasn't much time to observe today, but as I watched the male Magpie Lark was pushing his breast into the nest and shaking his feathers around a bit, trying the nest out for size. After this both the female and the male flew to the mating branch (named this because it's the branch that the Rosellas most often choose to mate on) and the female crouched down as if to say 'I'm ready'. The male attempted to hop onto her back but she'd changed her mind at the last minute and flew off.
I then needed to go out so will have to wait until tomorrow to see more.
The Rosellas were also around today with the male feeding the female again. I'm looking forward to Rosella chicks, hopefully they'll be successful.

The Magpie Larks are making good progress with the nest, starting to build up nice smooth sides this morning. Most of the work occurs between sunrise and around 10am then the Magpie Larks spend the rest of the day on there normal activities. However something unexpected happened today. I heard the high pitched chittering the White-plumed Honeyeaters make when there is raptor around. I quickly looked out the window to find two Australian Hobbies visiting an abandoned Little Raven nest in the same tree as the Magpie Larks nests.
Earlier this year Little Ravens renovated an old raven nest in the tree and looked as if they were going to nest there. Once the nest was built the ravens disappeared so I assumed they had decided to nest elsewhere for the season.
Later in the day the Hobbies returned to the nest, I watched them for a few minutes as they called to each other and flew to and from the nest before flying off. I am now waiting with bated breath....will the hobbies choose the abandoned nest to bread in??? will the magpie larks be able to continue nesting in the tree??? I'll just have to continue to watch to find out.

The pair of Eastern Rosellas have been seen outside every morning with lots of courtship feeding and mating going on...I wonder where their nesting hollow is??
Magpie Lark at nest

The male magpie lark was already busy at the nest this morning at 6.30am when I got out of bed. I didn't see the female assisting with the nest at all this morning, it appears that the male is spending more time at the building than the female. As I had to go to work I didn't have much time to observe today. When I got home from work there was no activity at the nest but the nest appeared just a bit more developed.