Showing posts with label spotted bower bird. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spotted bower bird. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

March 16 - Disorder





We set up camp as dark fell and in the morning, found this disordered pile of bones and stuff just outside the door, which on closer examination wasn't disordered at all - it's a spotted bower bird's precious collection of bones and shiny things - carefully placed there to attract the females to his bower 'stage' where he can perform his show.
In the first photo you see the bower - in the second, his tail is just visible... in the third, he is walking around near the campsite, but no matter what I tried, I couldn't get a nice close photo - this is on full zoom.
The back of his head has a bright pink patch of colour, which you can see in the last ,very enlarged, not-very-clear image.