Bob the builder finds true love

Unrequited passion is one thing but when you build a love nest for somebody who does not exist, that is downright sad.That was Bob the bush turkey's plight on his 4ha tropical patch in suburbia.Then, weeks before Valentine's Day, a voluptuous bird turned up."Bob went from being the bushcare team's best mate to a besotted bloke who now spends all of his time trying to impress his new girlfriend," Wollongong City Council bushcare officer Sue McGregor said."He is lunging at her at every opportunity, but she's playing hard to get at this stage."Male bush turkeys build leaf mounds for potential mates to lay their eggs. They are the caretakers and ensure the soil remains at the optimum temperature for hatching."Bob had been building three mounds on a regenerated sub-tropical rain forest area (at undisclosed locations for birds' protection) for two years despite the fact he was the only bush turkey within cooee," Ms McGregor said."His favourite is more than a metre high and we would watch awestruck at the repetitive work he would invest in it daily."Ms McGregor said she did not know where the female had come from but she and her team of volunteers were all delighted that Bob may have finally got lucky."We have our fingers crossed that all his back-breaking work on his mound has not been for nothing," Ms McGregor said.