Another grubby story

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Subject:	Another grubby story
From:	"Margaret Leggoe" <>
Date:	Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:08:24 +1000

A few weeks ago I was studying photos I had taken of a weebill with a grub, and in the last frame, the grub somehow looked flat. I couldn’t work it out. Today, a yellow thornbill at the Namadgi visitor’s centre showed me what it is all about. If the selected grub is too big by far, the bird plays with it just like a cat plays with a mouse, until the poor grub disgorges its stomach contents, and becomes dramatically reduced in size. At this point of time, my camera had a little rest in order to transfer images to the card. By the time it got back into action, the grub had disappeared. Did the thornbill swallow it? Your guess is as good as mine.

Margaret Leggoe.

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