A member here tipped me off about a tree in Nawarra street Indooroopilly.
Looks like a pretty bad lop job by Brisbane City Council. So I had to go have a closer look. And the job was left mid stream because the guys found a crows nest with chicks up the top.
Now that's great on them, however if it were you cutting down a tree on private land etc and encountered the same, using a tower
(no spike marks so they had one) would you stop the job, send the tower off
(and have to pay for another call out fee)? Yeah, crows and just about everything is protected. You could not see the nest or birds prior to starting and happened to encounter them through the job.
I would say what these guys did was cut as much off the tree as possible without actually endangering the nest. Crows being top line predators exposure of their nest wouldn't be an issue, however if it were smaller birds that alone could spell their demise as crows/magpies would kill them.