Dear all
Since my last posting on 8 July about this young male Satin Bowerbird,
he had made quite a bit of progress with a bower. It is set only 50cm
from the front garden fence, on a north-south axis with the blue
treasures scattered around on the southern flattened area, half under
the cover of a gravillea bush and the Pincushion hakea. There is a
tremendous amount of activity each morning and on and off during the
day, whirring and churring and dancing to visiting green birds
(females?) - crouching, wing flicking, sometimes both wings, sometimes
only one, bobbing up and down with lowered head and then hopping around
the bower with the female today inside the bower briefly. I've yet to
see any consummation. He constantly brings in new sticks and I've
watched him in the gum trees at the back garden trying to break off
twigs in the top canopy.
When he's not present, other greenies visit and remove blue objects,
pick at the bower sticks and upset things. Then he's back, whirring and
churring, chasing them off and retrieving the blue treasures. The
resemblance to a clockwork toy reminds me of those dangerous wind-up tin
toys we had as children, usually made in Japan, and now worth a small
fortune if in pristine condition.
One visiting green bird was missing an eye but seemed to manage
perfectly well with one.
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