Magpie-lark
So our bird bath had a visitor. Actually it gets a lot of visitors, I just don’t always think fast enough to get a photo.
The Magpie-lark (Grallina cyanoleuca), also called Mudlarks.
Like many Australian birds, it was named for its apparent similarity to the Northern Hemisphere birds familiar to European settlers: in fact it is neither a magpie nor a lark and is not particularly closely related to either.
Magpie-larks are a familiar sight around the country: sitting on telephone wires either singly or in pairs, or patrolling any patch of bare ground. Females have white throats and males have black throats.
I sure enjoyed watching him take his bath.
