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Hi
Perhaps this may be of
interest.
We have a bower in our back yard in Holder.
It is the third we have been aware of since 2003. We have had bowers built and
almost immediately destroyed over the years, but this one has lasted for months.
This is even more suprising as last weekend Tony had to cut away a large
amount of vegetation from under the power lines, leaving the
bower quite exposed.
This does not however appear to have
deterred the number of green birds (maybe four or five) (following recent
postings about the sexes of these birds I hestitate to say that they are male or
female) which are still very active in and around the bower. We do have
visits from a male bower bird, but it is the green birds which are
constant.
There must be another bower close by,
probably across the road, because blue items are stolen from the bower in
our yard, and I have seen one of the green birds high in our Chinese elm, with a
blue bottle top in its beak.
However, the thing that really amazed me a
couple of days ago was to see a male bower bird fly across the road - not
over the road, but straight through the underpass - and at speed!
On Ganggangs, we are lucky enough to have
visits from them through most of the year but a few weeks ago, we had 27 in the
Chinese elm. It was a truly spectacular sight.
Charmian Lawson
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