At last the birdbath gets some use

On 30 December last we went for a prowl around the garden centres at Pialligo, to see what the traditional places were offering (as opposed to our usual blat to Bunnings - Australia's equivalent to Wal-mart).

Amongst the goods on offer were some very attractive glazed birdbaths and we decided to buy one.  Even if it didn't attract the birds it would look pretty!

I installed it so we could see it from the kitchen and erected a convenient perching twiglet nearby.

For 50 days (if my arithmetic is correct) not a damn bird used it.  Thank goodness it looked nice.  Then this afternoon (18 February 2011) I noticed some fluttering near it.  Yes! Yes! Yes!  some birds had finally decided to investigate it.  Over the next 10 minutes a pair of Superb Blue Wrens had a splash as did 2 White-browed Scrubwrens.  I fired off 16 photographs (using a burst process to fiddle with exposure) and got 1 good image:
The "scrubbie" isn't at its best in this image so I have cut a better shot (ie which shows the white-brow as well as the white patch on the wing) of that species from another image (in which the blue wren was vibrating its tail to a dark blue blur for some reason)!

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