If the relevant timepiece registered only minutes and hours, it would have said “9. 23 am” through all of this post’s eight images, which are presented in chronological order.
As it happens, my camera also records seconds, so I know that only 39 of them elapsed from first to eighth photo.
From image “1” through “7” only 21 seconds passed.
A recently-bathed Superb Fairy Wren – Malurus cyaneus – can adopt a great many different positions within such a “short” time!
For maximum delight, I suggest you zoom in/enlarge….
All photos copyright Doug Spencer, taken in the lovely bush garden of our favourite place to stay when visiting South Australia.
Their “socially monogamous” behaviour notwithstanding, sexually speaking, the males of this species have been described as “the least faithful birds in the world”.
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You will meet some of the allegedly “least faithful” blokes in a future post, photographed in (and near to) the same garden.
Your images are fabulous Doug