Chapters #39 through #41 feature the same individual; #39’s photo was taken immediately after that morning’s first sighting of him/her.
S/he was so sodden as to be unrecognisable, in terms of species or age.
The featured image, above, was taken three minutes later.
I then assumed that our hero/ine was relishing the morning sunshine’s drying power… and would soon be airborne.
I was wrong.
I am almost sure that this individual was a spotted scrubwren, Sericornus maculatus; #17 in this series contains relevant information and shows what a dry-feathered scrubwren looks like.
In the course of eleven consecutive days, many birds bathed in and/or drank from the pictured birdbath; we saw members of all other relevant species do so on multiple occasions.
Only this once did we see a scrubwren, bathing.
(it just might have been a thornbill)
Unsurprisingly, for such a shy, solitary species, it only did so when no other bird was nearby.
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