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)!
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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