kellys, again

["Rod's Gardening" <>]

Actually Julian, when I saw SBBs in your posting I assumed "Satin 
Bowerbirds" - 2 of which I saw today, with a bower, where I was working in 
Stirling.  Both were green birds but one was playing around with the blue 
adornments and presumably this was a young male.
In the same garden I watched a Magpie Lark alight on the fence with nesting 
material in its beak, fly down to the garden birdbath, dunk the nesting 
material, then down to the ground where it proceeded  to rub the wet 
material in the dirt.  It then repeated the dunking process in the water of 
the birdbath before flying off.  I put this down as my first lesson in how a 
Magpie Lark goes about nest construction - and the householder now 
understands why the water in the birdbath is always dirty!
Cheers

Rod