ODIMBAR the Satin Bowerbird

The action has shifted about 100 metres from the scenes previously recorded at http://odimbar.blogspot.com/  .... As is normal, blue materia...

Ahem. Now that I have your attention with that title.... We have mirrors in our garden for visual challenges and spreading winter light. T...

I have a camera out there to record the vanity of the blackbirds that spend extraordinary amounts of time dancing and pecking at their own i...

And then something happened. Of course, it happened when the movement sensing camera was inside, having come in, nothing recorded, nothing...

Every day there are bowerbirds (and many other birds) around the house, but no one has walked in front of the camera. We did something ent...

afternoon light, no bower, 16 July 2017 The sadness of today, the big sense of loss, is that there is no bower any more. Our last film...

After the 'morning patrol' reported in the previous movie, early morning saw a lot of activity. I was planning to present you anothe...

Bowerbirds are not unusual among birds in working long days. The night is especially hard for very small birds, whose surface to weight rati...

In our last movie, a male and a female bowerbird were frustrated in their desire to practice courtship by green male bowerbirds challenging ...

The camera seems to have been stolen from my front yard. BUT HEY, BEFORE YOU GET TOO EXCITED ABOUT THE ABOVE AND BELOW... This past wee...

Video below It is now June, winter here in southeastern Australia, but the weather for the most part gentle, mild and sunny. On 10 June ...

OF COURSE, some of the most interesting things happen when the camera is not in place, as on a recent Saturday morning when we observed from...

The all-singing, all-dancing Odimbar is not there all day, not always at his bower. He has to eat, perhaps he has to snooze, or schmooz some...